This afternoon we had TWO bubble machines going. Brandon thought this was great fun!! It kept him entertained for ages! He's also started getting into colouring in like Meckenzie, though I didn't grab any pictures of them fighting over who was going to draw in what book. Its great to see them wanting to interact with one another and actually parallel play. HUGE PROGRESS!!

I paid for his trip to the zoo next Friday which I am going to be going along too and yes Camera in hand.

Jordyn and I went to the gardens today to spend some time together. He's had a very hard week with bullying at his school and has been under a lot of stress. We (being me) are trying to work out whether we want to let him go back. Right now he has to make a choice but with us having final say. Pete want's him to stay there but I cant justify the risk. We have had three years of bullying. Anway for pics we took at the gardens (of garden) see the other blog thats attached to this one. But below are some photos that I took of Jordyn playing in the playground.

Wet horrible weekend

Its been such a wet horrible weekend that we didn't get out to do much. Though we did have this lovely creature above visit us on our hedge.


We decided to bring out a few balloons. Brandon wasn't interested in them and Jordyn was out with Gran but Kenzie loved them especially the orange one


Brandon got home from being out with his grandfather, and discovered Kenzie had a new bed, though I think he thought it was more for him because he was super keen to get in and curl up lol! Bless his heart

So with both boys out Kenzie and I were able to enjoy a bit of quality time together. I thought making her super tired might help her sleep - I was wrong its nearly 11pm as I write this and she is wide awake in her bed. *sigh* I love my little princess but she is draining me with this no sleeping.

What better to eat on a hot muggy day than icecream! She hasn't mastered spoons yet lol. Why bother when fingers do just as good a job lol.

All in all a very quiet weekend with lack of sleep because of Kenzie not sleeping. Endless visitors which any other time we would have enjoyed and lots of rain. The boy's room got changed around to stop him banging on Nicole's wall and I am hoping that that will be the end of that.

I have come to the conclussion I can't please everyone and there are things obviously I am not going to put in a blog for all the world to see. Those that need to know, know.

From one very tired mummy who is having a 'woe is me' day I am off to try and get some sleep if thats possible.

Picnic at the lake

Yesterday we took Brandon and Kenzie to the local lake to have an impromptu picnic. Brandon who for those of you who are just learning about me has autism. He is 3.5 years old. At first he didn't quite know what to make of it. A meltdown later he was off chasing the ducks and having a good time. Kenzie was quite happy to just sit back and eat the food that he didn't want lol.



We took them around to the playground where they had heaps of fun playing on the climbing frames and Nicole took Brandon down the big slide. The first time he went down he panicked but by the third and fourth time, our little thrill seeker was loving the sensations that it caused lol

Jordyns Orange belt grading

On the 11th Feburary, Jordyn (8yrs old) was ready after a long 6 months to grade for his orange belt. He was there with four other Melville GKR students who were also grading. Three of them for their orange belts too and one for his yellow belt.


Before they started they had to do a warm up. Jordyn was starting to feel real nervous about the whole grading at this time. His last grading had been an hour after Brydey had died so it was a huge deal for him to move on from his yellow belt to his orange belt.


But he managed to get it together and put on his 'karate face' as we call it. So Sensei Slade and Sensei Steve put the kids through their paces. Testing them to see how much they had learnt about the movements and how their technique was.
It went on for an hour and a half. The ones who had their protective gear were given a chance to spar with others. This was great to watch. All of them did so well. Jordyn didn't get to spar but next time he'll have his gear. So all in all a proud mummy moment as I stood by camera in hand for his second big grading, making up for the time that I missed his first one. I was super proud of Jordyn, he has worked so hard and stuck at it faithfully.