I had such a great week with my family – so much was going on
Monday – Halloween
Tuesday – My mum’s 60th birthday
Wednesday – Jasper’s 4th birthday & a sea creature show at his school
Thursday – Playgroup with Jovie
Friday – Another Playgroup with Jovie
Saturday – Meet up with friends and we tried to make the Santa parade but missed it by 30 mins..
Sunday – Mum & Jasper’s joint birthday lunch
Not to mention the cake baking I did this week… Total failure on Thursday night (the ones I mention in my blog post below…) and then I made a Nutella Mousse Tart and another batch of cupcakes/cake for Jasper on Saturday night/Sunday morning.
Jasper had said he wanted a train cake for MONTHS but then decided I was going to make him a Solar System cake. YEP. How did I do?
Thank goodness for no allergies this time around! I had alot of fun icing the mini cakes and cupcakes – can you spot the Sun, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter amongst the other random designs? The big blue one is Rigel, how many of you know what that is?? I still don’t.
It’s Monday morning again and I’m exhausted. Jasper’s cough has teamed up with a runny nose, and have made it’s way over to me now so I’m trying to relax a bit before it gets any worse.. Jovie has been randomly SCREAMING and crying these past few days which is really hard to cope with but we always find a way. Most times if I just put her in her pram (so she’s strapped in somewhere), sit with her and be calm, pull funny faces and sing silly songs she calms down too.. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do… but I know as she gets older and bigger, it will get more violent unless we can teach her to communicate more clearly.
So it’s time to get a wriggle on and get this week started.. make sure you check out Dani’s Boob Job blog post, read about what Kelle loves right now and celebrate Kate’s daughter’s 1st birthday.
I can’t believe how grown up he’s getting… my sweet baby boy Jasper turns 4 years old today and it’s such a trip. it feels like yesterday when i was taking these photos …
I’m so glad there’s another full year of preschool Jasper before he starts big school, having this time off has made me so happy and content – that I’m spending my time doing something that I truly love 🙂
Happy birthday baby boy! I love you so so much x
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In the mirror this morning, I spotted three grey hairs. Well, actually they are white and as my sister puts it ‘can be seen across the room’. I can’t deny that the last 6 months have been stressful, though the last 2 and a bit have been better since I’ve been on leave from ‘work’. We still have our whole lives to be stressed – I think I’ll be a silver fox before we know it.
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We had our first appointment with our neurologist and a follow up appointment with our paediatrician today. Waiting times aside (hello, 4 hourssss), they both reminded us to look into Rett Syndrome because it’s still not off the table. We won’t know the test results for months yet, so excuse me if there is more emo posts here on the blog.
The dr also threw in the term ‘severe’ to describe Jovie’s Autism and I didn’t flinch. I don’t know whether that’s good or bad, but I guess when you live it, any term you use to describe a situation doesn’t matter.
Jovie’s doing this new thing where screaming, out of happiness in the highest pitch known to man, is her release. It started before bed times, and then progressed to wherever we took her – my favourite was the toy store where she did her usual ‘clearing off all counters’ (bye bye slinkies) and then screamed while I paid for some halloween lanterns. I’m learning really quick to find all exits and to clear a good 3 feet buffer zone around Jovie.
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Trying to remind Jasper to use his manners, Uncle Allan asks him ‘What’s the magic word?’.
My sweet Jasper replies ….
‘Abracadabra!’
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I’ve been getting back into painting and screenprinting lately. It’s been a welcome distraction for both Jasper and I and the smell of the paint brings me back to my high school art rooms.
I never was good at painting, but some prints & things that I made the other day make me happy 🙂
