Daddy's little Helper

Whenever Daddy is home, he has a little shadow.

Little Bear loves her daddy to bits & loves to do anything that daddy is doing.

Daddy has recently bought himself a new computer chair & Little Bear helped him build it.

Daddy was very patient with her & let her help him screw bits in & find bits that had gone missing (she was actually very good at this, because she was the reason that they weren't where Daddy left them in the first place).



When Daddy was getting too frustrated, Little Bear knew how to calm him down.













I love this photo. Daddy was sitting on the coffee table fixing the media PC (our home TV is attached to a computer).

Little Bear saw him sitting there so she went & got her book & climbed up right beside him & sat there quietly chatting to him the whole time (it took a while).














And this photo was taken today. Little Bear loves my plastics drawers & every day (multiple times a day on weekends) I have to run around after her putting it all back in before it gets dirty.


And there we go, that is the big stuff that has been happening since I last blogged. I have more to add as I get the photo's, but for now this will do.

Cheetah's birthday

After the wedding, it was time to get ready for Cheetah's birthday. Man did he score this year.

Cheetah has wanted a Nintendo DS since they came out. We resisted for ages because we have 2 playstations (1 & 2), 2 computers (plus a bunch of various computer parts that fill about 3 x 64L plastic tubs (not including cases & monitors), and various little computer game type toys.



Anyway, the two cousins his age that live nearby, as well as most of his school/PCYC friends have one so we finally gave in & got him one for his birthday. (When I say most of his school friends, he has about 10 close friends who all have one). Because we go on car trips (short & long) with his cousins, as well as camping with them too, we felt a DS would be well worth it for those times including the looooooong drives to NSW & back to visit Nanna.

Here is Little Bear presenting Cheetah with his DS.



Cheetah is a very good big brother. Here is Little Bear helping him open his present.















And here is little bear after all the presents have been opened (for now) getting a little bit overexcited at the whole deal & throwing herself at Cheetah, his presents & the wrapping paper.












Cheetah wanted a roller-skating party this year. Note the birthday cake was made that morning in time for a party at 10:00am. I was impressed with my own efforts.

It doesn't show up very well, but there is a number 9 out of M&M's on top of the cake.












Here is Cheetah skating.



















Here is Cousin T skating.


















And here is Uncle J & Little Bear.

That night we had the extended family over for pizza.

All in All, Cheetah really enjoyed his birthday

The Wedding

OK. Brother R's wedding was on 6 September so I am running a bit behind.

Honestly since the wedding I have been completely run off my feet & have had very little time to blog. The spare time I have had, I have used to just wind down (there really has been very very little of it) and blogging was the last thing on my mind.

Anyway, the wedding was nice. Sister-in-Law J looked stunning in her dress. Unfortunately I don't have any photo's of the actual wedding on my camera. I got the photo's from Mum's camera to burn onto disks for family, however we used a removable USB drive to copy them onto from her computer to mine & this wrecked the quality of the copies (apparently these drives are renowned for this). I am hoping to get round there tomorrow & try something different. We'll see how it goes.




Here is Little Bear & DH early on at the reception. Little Bear was very good for a 1 year old, but a bit of a handful because she wouldn't sit at the table.

She made everyone oooh & aaaah in her beautiful dress & shoes & of course she felt like a princess & so she played like a princess, swishing around, dancing & prancing when people were paying her attention & not wanting to be relegated to the sidelines in a highchair.

The older children (like Cheetah) were relegated to a table at the back of the room. (What a great idea)! Therefore I have no photo's of Cheetah on my camera from the wedding, but other family got some so if there are any good ones I will post them later.



Here is Little Bear & Grandad with the ice sculpture. This is where Little Bear spent most of the night with one adult or another. She didn't grow tired of it (although the adults had to keep changing the guard).

She loved to touch it & then pull her hand away laughing as her hand got too cold. By the end of the night, the Swan on the left had a noticably smaller tail than the Swan on the right.

Dinner was beautiful, however they waited a long time between each course & by the time the speeches started, Little Bear was ready to sleep & so I spent the full time of the speeches outside walking backwards & forwards until she fell asleep on my shoulder. I did find $10 though & no-one around to claim it. Bonus.

I will post a bit more about the wedding when I get the other photo's.