Hey Everyone.. Mum here…
well the last week or so we have been getting Lily into a better bedtime routine… Up until now we have just nursed her off to sleep which I have to say has been really nice to soak up all the little baby cuddles I can before my baby becomes a little girl..

So Lily is in a Big Bed already so the plan was to just put her down awake and when (not if) she got down and walked out of the room, we just put her back and keep going until hopefully she goes to sleep..
So all in all it’s been working well and every night gets better and tonight she only came out of her room once so all was great.. Still took about an hour for her to finally get off to sleep but for me if she is in her room then thats fine with me..
at one stage tonight she and harry were playing peek a boo with each other across the hall way….

So tonight i was keeping an eye out when all of a sudden everything went quiet and I thought.. YES She has gone to sleep in her bed… FANTASTIC !!
so i left it a few minutes then headed in to check it out…

The little bugger wasn’t in her bed at all… She had gone into the boys room, got into bed with Harry and this is what I walk in to find..

and just when I was about to cry I pulled the blankets down to get lily out and seen this

Look at that little arm around his little sister!!!

JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!… I CAN’T POSSIBLY ASK FOR ANYTHING ELSE TODAY… I THINK I AM THE LUCKIEST MUM IN THE WORLD TONIGHT!!!..

Gday everyone.. Joe here…
Well today was really exciting as we got some new pets.. 4 little 1 week old chic’s

from left to right we have named them
Charlie the charcoal chicken a.k.a. “Charlie”, Ugg Boot Chicken a.k.a “Ugg”, Bumblebee chicken, a.k.a “bumblebee” and finally little Sock chicken a.k.a “sock”.

Harry and I have had these little chickens at preschool for the last 2 weeks and we seen them hatch out of eggs and have watched them grow..

So Harry helped mum get their new home ready yesterday with woodchips for the floor and some food, water and a nice warm light..

Mum put a call into the chicken expert of the family Uncle Graeme to make sure we were doing everything right and to see when we needed to touch base with him again for phase 2 of the “chicken project”.
Uncle Graeme reported that when they start to fly out of the plastic tub.. CALL HIM BACK!!!!

So we bought them home today..
First thoughts..
Harry loves them… Lily wants to squeeze them.. and well I want to stay away from them as they scare me and “I don’t like them”…

When dad got home from work we got them out for their first play
Lily and Harry jumped right in there while I hung out up on the lounge and as far into the corner as I could get..

after a while mum coaxed me down from the lounge and I sat on her knee and had a play with “bumblebee” and “Charlie”.. I think with time I could really come to love the little chic’s but until I’m comfortable ill just keep my distance..
Lily and Harry on the other hand are in there.. Lily is going to be the one we’ll have to watch.. she almost strangled on this afternoon… anyway time will tell and hopefull time will also bring us some nice eggs as well…
Thankyou very much to Elder Street Early Childhood Centre for letting us bring them home to live with us..
Stay tuned for more chicken updates bought to you by Joe!!!

Howdy Everyone, Joe here.. Well thought I would get this back on track and do a big update for May

The month started with Harry having a “special day” with Ma and Pa which meant that Lil and I have Mum all to ourselves.. I personally thought it was an excellent opportunity for a Little bro and sis photo shoot.

I think the results were pretty good… Lil and I have a special bond and she reckons that my “bubba cuddles” are the best..
The first weekend of the month we had the Rogers Boys over for a sleep over.. It was so crazy have 5 kids under the age of 5 in the house but we had so much fun.. Mitch and Harry Rogers are our best mates and after a yummy dinner we settled in for a game of “fish” and “snap” with dad before bed

In no time at all we were all asleep, which was cool in itself cause we all slept in the same room, Mum said she was very proud of us all..
The next morning we were all up early and had pancakes for breakfast…

Sunday 9th was Mothers day and cause we have the best mum in the world and we know how much she hates to cook all the time we bought her a slow cooker… she loved it..
We also went for a trip out to the old maitland goal for the morning. It was a little scary and I didn’t like some places and we were on our best behaviour as Mum said if we were naughty she was going to leave us there!!!. She also told us that if we were naughty when we got bigger and the police came to visit us.. this is where they would take us… So Harry and I reckon we are going to be good boys for life!!!
Ma and Pa came with us and they all got headsets to listen to a man speak while we walked around..
Pa and Dad were hooked up together and Dad kept walking away while Pa was starring off into space !!!

It was really funny..
After the Goal we had a lunch at one of the pub’s at maitland. Harry, Lil and I all had our favourite, nuggets and Chips and because it was a special occasion we could have squash lemon and lemonade to drink..
Later that night we game Mum her other pressie…

“A GROUP HUG”

The first Wed of the month signalled the start of State of Origin. Dad is a die hard Queenslander supporter and Mum goes for NSW.. We all just change our minds depending on who’s winning or who just scored a try… Dad becomes unbearable this time of year as he turns into this obsessed man who’s eyes widen, chest pumps out and steam comes out of his ears with anticipation of the match…
He screams and yells at the TV and then Mum yells at him for yelling too much…
anyway we have Ben Tarny and Eliza come over for the first game and while everyone else made noise yelling we put on a little karaoke

Lily and Eliza rocked it home!!

A monthly updated wouldn’t be complete without a comment about Dad’s fishing trips for the month
He and Bed went one morning and all I can say is..

“the big ones got away”

A month doesn’t usually go by without the good old Dress up.. This month we all got on board and it was
superhero month… Uncle Brett sent down some Astro Boy DVDs and Astro Boy is now our favourite..

but we don’t have any astro boy outfits so I am an Astro Boy Turtle, Harry is Astro boy superman and Lily is Buzz Lightyear!!!

We also went on a holiday to Lake Keepit in May.. We went up to celebrate our Great Poppy Barnes 85th birthday.

It was a really long trip up and it was freezing cold at night but the days were like summer..
Dad of course got up early and went fishing.. Lily was chanting at the bit to get out there as well so they headed out early to put some lines in

they got a small one.. then when Harry and I woke up we went down for a fish as well


we got some beauties…
We also had a play on the swings and slides,

We had a great time!!

The last week of the month we just kicked about at home. Us boys were really tired but Lily managed to get some quality time with Mum and Dad…
Dad taught her how to do “Cheers”

and her shoe obsession continued…

and her hair got wild!!!

and she got wild!!

and as most months go Mum always gets us together for a family Photo shoot..
We weren’t being very co operative this day and Didn’t really get “that” photo.. but we did get some funny ones..

This was the best of the lot but Harry was too busy watching Cartoons!!

Well that brings us to the end of Autumn so chat to you soon