Lynnie's Birthday Festival

Renee, Adam and baby Amaya arrived on Wednesday night to kick off Lynnie's Birthday Festival. Isn't she beautiful!

And they bought with them lots of presents. This is Gram reading Paddy is first book

Thursday was Mum's birthday. We all bought her an IPad. She had to share the present opening duties....
Mr Adam made beautiful lamb shanks for Mum's birthday dinner (if anyone has Cook with Jamie you need to try the lamb shanks recipe...)

Paddy played with Aunt Ren and got read lots of stories - Brown Bear is sure to be a favourite.

Saturday was Lynnie's Birthday Luncheon. Renee and I got the house to ourselves to prepare a feast - Mister helped with making the pasta. Renee dusted off the pasta machine I purchased 3 years ago that has never been used. Will be sure to use it now - the pasta was beautiful!

Lunch was outside in the glorious sunshine - you never would have thought we were in the middle of winter.

We finished off the meal with some Singstar action - there are the Seamons family busting out a classic.

Danny was playing polo all weekend so he didn't get to join us but pulled out Brown Bear when he got home.

Sunday was a lazy day - started with Poets Cafe at Montville for breakfast. Sunday night we dressed Mum up in her Montville outfit to head out to dinner with friends while the 3 kids + husbands ate Chinese and reminisced. Well Renee & Troy did - I can't remember a bloody thing!

When Troy left and the babies were fast asleep we played Singstar until late in the night. For the record we did smash Danny Cook on a number of occasions - the most memorable smashing was Danny and Mr Adam singing A Girl from Mars. It was a shocker but Mr Adam pulled through with a win!

We said goodbye to the Seamons and hello to Cooper who arrived today. He has already done all the jobs with the horses, set up Paddy's toys in the car and is now beating his Dad on the Wii. He will be guest blogger for the rest of his stay (something I am still trying to convince him to do.....)

I'll finish this off with some amazing Paddy news - he loves his high chair! He does lean to the side a bit but had a great time for his first run. Let's hope it's a winner when Mummy wants to get dinner on......

What a great Birthday Festival Lynnie!!! We love you xoxoxo

When to stop Paddy sucking his finger....

It is so hard to pull his finger out of his mouth when it looks this cute!

And no he wasn't hungry....

Apparently this is the finger his cousin Billy used to suck on.

The slurping noises didn't come across that well but believe me he was really sucking that finger!

Lucy my little helper

Lucy came for a sleepover to help with Paddy while Danny was at Clifton playing polo.

After a day of doing the groceries and making brownies we were ready for bed.

Partners in Crime

Ra Ra came to visit for the day today.

She does crafting with Natty.....

But spending time with Danny is way more fun!!

Cute Slippies!

We went for dinner at Poppy's last night so I thought it might be time to pull out the bunny slippers Nanna bought Paddy in New Zealand.

How cute are they.....

Is it too early to claim VICTORY?!!!!

This morning in the new car seat there was again much screaming on the way to work.

But on the way home we did this....

A forward facing car seat! And though there were a few moments of little winges, there was no screaming like we have become used to on our car travels.

He even grabbed onto and played with his puppy.

Danny thinks it's too early to claim it to be a success but I am taking every success, no matter how small, and running with it!

The Premier

This is Paddy's new car seat. We bought this seat this afternoon in the hopes that we would have peaceful car rides from now on.

Driving home from the shop he went to sleep - good sign.

After waking up though there was much screaming - not a good sign.

Let's hope we didn't just blow $300!