my-speck http://www.my-speck.com i'm pregnant and it's going to be a rollercoaster Wed, 16 Aug 2023 03:32:44 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 10993953 …everything must end … http://www.my-speck.com/2023/08/16/everything-must-end/ http://www.my-speck.com/2023/08/16/everything-must-end/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2023 03:04:54 +0000 http://www.my-speck.com/?p=4181 and with that final post in March 2013, my-speck came to an end.

After 367 posts over 7 years

I guess life – work, play, home, living – just took over.

I hope you both treasure this blog of memories my beautiful babes.

I love you both more than anything

Love mum

Australia vs France – FIFA Women’s World Cup – August 2023

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L: “Meat.”
Me: “What kind of meat?”
L: “Dead meat.”

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Momma. Honestly we don’t usually eat alive meat!

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Petting the animals

It’s the time of the Royal Agricultural Exhibition, or Ekka as it’s known.

We haven’t taken the kids so far, cause it is typically busy and a bit full-on, but the lure of the baby animal nursery, where there are hundreds of little animals in an enclosure won out: you can walk right in and feed, pat and generally get close to them.

So C took the morning off work and with his rules of “no carnies, no show bags”, we ventured forth.

And it was fun!

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The kids got initiated into the famous Ekka strawberry icecreams…

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Strawberry Ekka Icecreams

 

being gentle with the chicks

 

 

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I give you: Cheddar Cheese Bread..

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My kitchen smells amazing, the bread cuts beautifully, and tastes just the right cheesy…

Mmmmm..

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In the big tree in Fairfield

 

Today we had a doctor’s apartment and afterwards there was a special request for a park stop on the way home.

And this is where he hung…

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But happy she has dogs on her jarmies.

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Our kindy/daycare ran a hatching program for all the kids to see and we have adopted four.

You have never seen two more excited children when they arrived home last night. And this morning the excitement is still palpable.

Here’s hoping we didn’t get any roosters!

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]]> http://www.my-speck.com/2013/04/19/new-household-members/feed/ 1 3576 Pink Dinner is a winner http://www.my-speck.com/2013/04/09/pink-dinner-is-a-winner/ http://www.my-speck.com/2013/04/09/pink-dinner-is-a-winner/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:45:08 +0000 http://www.my-speck.com/?p=3568 You just never know what will happen at dinner time…

Most nights little O picks at his food and has to be coaxed into even tasting most new things. We try to just relax about the whole thing, and not wheedle or cajole, but some nights we resort to it in frustration.

Generally we do try to eat around the kids too: by that I mean making meals that they like or are not as spiced as we might otherwise eat.

But tonight I decided to just cook something I felt like cooking. Actually a bit of experimentation.

So beetroot and yoghurt sauce + lentil pilaf.

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And for once I has a son who ate without complaint, telling me that it “tastes great when I put all of it in my mouth at once!”

Who didn’t look like he was loving it, but for some reason tonight just decided to soldier through.

And gleefully declared at the end of the meal that he is looking forward to purple poo tomorrow.

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“what are you guys going to do for your birthdays?”

Me: “I’m going to have an icecream sundae party”

A few minutes pass in silence while Oscar contemplates the question.

Oscar: “I’m going to have an icecream Thursday party!”

Of course!

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]]> http://www.my-speck.com/2013/04/07/icecream-thursday/feed/ 1 3566 Another Monday, another trip to the museum http://www.my-speck.com/2013/02/04/another-monday-another-trip-to-the-museum/ http://www.my-speck.com/2013/02/04/another-monday-another-trip-to-the-museum/#respond Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:08:10 +0000 http://www.my-speck.com/?p=3564 O overcame his fear of the animatronic dinosaur exhibit at the museum today so we finally had a good look (third time lucky)!

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Luna was unfazed.

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Both O and L joined in.

Dinner went down quickly then O chose to eat a swallow and a dinosaur.

Yum!

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]]> http://www.my-speck.com/2013/01/30/swallows-and-dinosaurs/feed/ 0 3561 Christmas … food planning http://www.my-speck.com/2012/11/30/christmas-food-planning/ http://www.my-speck.com/2012/11/30/christmas-food-planning/#respond Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:46:43 +0000 http://www.my-speck.com/?p=3550 so it is the 30th of November.

 

I have one exam to go then I’m finished with university (for the moment)!  Yay.

 

My mind is already turning to when I’ll have oodles of spare time (comparatively).   Or at least less brain-consuming-should-be-studying-worrisome spare time and more what-the-heck-do-whatever-you-want spare time.

 

I got to work this morning and decided that I needed to capture some information about the Christmas food plans in my head.  So I started a board on pinterest.  Thinking I had heaps to add.

 

And ended up with 3 dessert/sweet items.    Oh, just thought of another.   Make that four.

 

 

 

Thoughts and suggestions welcome!

 

What are you looking forward to eating/cooking?

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mum, the only thing that stops the baddies making loud noises is TV

Mmm. A new bedtime ploy.

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And some trick or treating!

 

 

 

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So we’ve been practising sitting on the potty. She loves it: it’s like a ride with handles, and she can sit on it while her brother is in the toilet. Awesome for her (not so awesome for the parent who needs to remain in the bathroom while the three year old poos… Lots of grunting and not a great smell, all accompanied with incessant chatter)..

Two nights ago while getting in the bath, just as O did a poo, L shouted “wee wee, wee wee” and demanded to be in the potty. I obliged. She sat there for a minute, then said, “wee wee” and got off. And promptly did a big turd on the floor…

It’s difficult being a parent: having to say, “good girl” in an excited and encouraging voice whilst at the same wiping up freshly deposited poo from the bathroom floor with the one free hand (the other making sure so stray 1 year old hands enter said deposit)..

Anyway,I put it down to fluke or just good timing.

Cue this afternoon, another clear “wee wee, wee wee”. We went and had a sit for a few minutes. Then suddenly she stands up, hops off the potty and, yep, you’ve got it: poos on the floor again.

Repeat simultaneous cleaning and congratulatory remarks.

Aaah.. Moving forward!

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I’d already asked C what they’d got up to that day whilst I was gone, and he had said, “not much, just mooched about”…

 

But little O set me straight:

Me: “Did you go shopping today & get a juice?”

O: “Yes, see!”

Me: “Where did you go shopping?”

O: “To the shop that sells burgers and chips.“

Cue lots of laughing and sheepish looks from C.

 

🙂

 

 

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or, as you are more frequently called in our house: boo boo.

Boo boo. Derived from Boona. Which rhymes with Luna. As in Luna Boona, shortened to Boo boo. Of course.

I feel remiss in a number of ways. Not only did your first birthday pass without my mentioning it here, but as I have sheepishly admitted to a number of people, it was so uneventful that we even forgot to take a photo of you on the day.

So, a belated public Happy Birthday my darling.

You are a cheerful, happy, rotund and gleeful little even-tempered darling. We all love you dearly, most of all perhaps your brother. Who climbs into your cot each morning to play as soon as he wakes up. We wake most mornings to the sound of the two of you giggling gleefully from your room.

And often at night that is the sound of you going to bed too: you and Oscar playing “the giggle game” with each other from separate rooms (you both quickly worked out it was a game that could be played without the need to see each other)…

Luna, you are beautiful and we love you very much.

Kisses

 

mum

 

the link for those who can’t see it

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We celebrated O’s 3rd Birthday in the park on the weekend with a robot and rocket party.

What does that look like? Lots of big refrigerator boxes all joined up to make a robot spaceship, decorated with stickers and stick-ons. Filled with small children popping their heads up through the funny windows and openings. And crawling between all the adjoining boxes like crazy.

In the spaceship

Lots of fruit for morning tea.

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And, of course, a robot cake. Which the smallest one managed to swipe icing off while I was trying to light the candles!

Robot Cake!

Happy Robot Birthday my beautiful boy!

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Thanks all.

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