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!!!..

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!!!

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

Who needs expensive gifts when you can get something like this.. it puts everything into perspective.

Tonight I will take an extra 5 mins to hug each of the kids a little more… I will take an extra 5 mins to grab just one more kiss from Joe, I will take the time to just look at Harry and beam with joy that he is such a beautiful little man.. and I will take an extra 5 mins to run my fingers through lily’s hair!!!.
and tomorrow I am going to wear my new necklace to work with pride!!!

I love my children more the life itself, I love my family and I love being a mum

The month started with Mum and Dad taking a quick trip back to Inverell for Justine and ehsy’s wedding..
Dad looked quite dashing and see what mum can do when she doesn’t have us to look after..

they got home on sunday night to a sick me with 2 middle ear infections and well it could be say that someone has been sick since… First it was me, Then Dad got crook real bad and then Lily got a chest infection and now I am sick again… Joe has green booga’s everywhere but that is nothing unusual for him !!!
So Mum says the best thing we can do when we are sick is sleep… so that’s what we have been doing.. anywhere we can…

So since we have all been sleeping so much Mum has had a bit of spare time on her hands so she has the garden absolutely cracking…
we have lettuce, carrots, spinach, brocollini, cauliflower, leeks, potatoes, cucumbers and strawberry’s all growing crazy outside.. We also have the first lemon on our Lemon tree turning yellow so It’s very exciting..

Mum has also been back playing the piano quite a bit lately, We all love it cause we stand around and all sing twinkle twinkle little star while mum plays it… She is really clever!!!.
Lily has also been getting lessons..

Other big things this month.. Joe is going gang busters with the toilet training and can now do wee’s on the grass… But in order to do that he still thinks he has to sit or squat down and point his doodle towards the back.. It looks really awkward and I just laugh at him every time he does it.. but I am sure as he gets bigger he will get better at it.. If not I will be sure to pull him aside and sort it out!!!

We have also hit a HUGE !! milestone this weekend just passed… The cot has left the kearsey household for good…
Uncle Matt and Aunty Jod need it for their baby so Mum went and bought lily her big bed and we all helped put it together yesterday..
Dad took the old cot out..

Joe and I helped Mum and Dad move it into her room, and Lily was the first on top of it jumping around..

Once it was all together we all tested it out!!! just to make sure it was safe

Then last night Lily snuggled down into her new flanny sheets and had a great sleep in her new big bed..

Well that just about brings us up to date.. so catcha soon

“little lily jumping on the bed,
she fell off and bumped her head,
called up Harry, and Harry said
no more stinky Bubba’s jumping on the bed.”

Harry talks alot in his sleep… and I have been meaning to start writing down what he says…
sometimes they are just jibble jabble.. other times they are funny!!!!

It’s taken many hours of blood sweat and tears but we finally have the main body of the house complete..
and the front is totally finished

We just have some brickwork around the bottom to finish off and the front and back steps to do and we are totally done…

Then we will be putting some serious efforts into the front gardens.. and then finally it might look like someone lives and cares for the place!!!>.

Stay tuned!!!

Easter started with us all getting our easter nests painted and stuffed ready for the bunny to come…
Mum helped me with mine…

while Dad helped Bubba write his name on his…

He watched closely to make sure Dad did it right.. and Harry had it covered for the outset…

After we finished them we cut up some newspaper to make the stuffing then walked them into our rooms ready for the bunny to come…

After dinner we all had cuddles with Mum and waited for the bunny to come…

I hit the deck on time as usual.. Harry went early at the prospect that if he didn’t the Bunny may not come… Joe on the other hand had to wait till Mum got a “phonecall” from the Easter Bunny checking if he was in bed or not before he was convinced that he was even coming!!!

Eventually he went to bed and Mum tells me that she fell asleep while and while Dad was busy studying in the computer room the Easter Bunny snuck in and left the eggs!! The reason she knows this is because Harry woke up about 11.30pm and realised he had been and ran into Dad to tell him….
Dad quickly said “jump into bed with Mum and go back to sleep” which he did only to wee himself about 10 minutes later which meant a complete change of bedding and clothes.. .which resulted in Harry running around nude at midnight pointing at all the choccie eggs saying ” look Mum, look Dad… the Easter Bunny has been” !!! They eventually got him back into bed and he had no recollection of these events the next day and was surprised as anyone when he woke up to find Choccie EVERYWHERE !!!!

First the boys came into my room to see what I had got…

Then we all headed into their room to see what they got…

While they were busy counting and making sure everyone got equal portions I started Eating Choccie!!!

Then Dad yelled out and said to come into the lounge room as it looked like there was MORE !!!!
so off we went.. followed the little egg trail to find more CHOC!!!
again the boys were busy counting and posing for numerous photos I just kept eating…

Joe then got in and had a crack!!!

Harry decided to wait till after breakfast !!! what is that all about !!!

Then Dad yells out and says that they Easter Bunny left more outside… so gum boots on we were off…
Harry dominated as my legs are shorter!!!

But we were a good team… Harry collected them, Joe liked to unwrap them, and I ate them !!! gotta love teamwork…

Since then we have been inundated with Choc and to be honest it has been great!!!.. I think Dad has been sneaking a few on the quiet and Mum has been having a fair go at them as well.. but it won’t be long and they will be all gone for another year…
So until then.. I will get as many as I can into my little stomach!!!.. Yum Yum !!!!

Harry then had a go at a big jumping castle.. I didn’t like that and didn’t want to have a go.. and then Harry got to go on a ride in a helicopter…

I didn’t like that either.. I was happy laying on the ground playing with my lightsaver sword…

The last ride of the night was Dad and Harry on the dodge-ms… Lily by this stage had gone to sleep…

Dad was unreal and Harry never stopped laughing the whole time… If it wasn’t for the height restrictions I would have had a go…

By now it was getting on and I knew that the fireworks would start soon so I was keen as mustard to hit the frog and toad and get out of there.. I don’t like fireworks.. So we were walking out and out of no where this huge “BOOM”… Ma hit the ground and Harry almost projected himself into Ma’s arms… I just ran to mum and hung on for dear life.. There was no way she was putting me down until we got to the car.. Which was about 500 metres away…

So in Summary… There were a few things I didn’t like but that was ok cause I got my lightsaver sword.. Harry had a great time.. he said it was heaps better then last year and when I get bigger I will like it better.. Lily seemed to have a good time.. so I would call it a success…

The next morning we woke early as we were all really excited to have a look at the place we were staying..

it turned out that we were right on the beach and it was a lovely morning and we were in no rush to go anywhere so we headed down to the beach..
Lily, Joe and I all played in the sand and Lily and I built sand castles

while Joe drew pictures in the sand

after a while Dad took Lily and I in for a swim.. Bub wasn’t keen so he stayed on the sand with mum

We then headed back to our cabin and had a shower, packed up and jumped in the car for a smooth 2 and a bit hours till Byron.
We got there just on lunch time so we all had a well deserved rest and waited till the others arrived.
Later that arvo we headed in to see Uncle Dave and Aunty Mel and we waited on uncle Bob and Aunty lons and the twins to arrive and also Nanny, Poppy, Tyler and Caitlyn.
Soon everyone had arrived and we had some dinner and had a play…
Later we all the little kids jumped in the bath..

Olly reckoned he was now a Big Boy and wanted to have a bath all on his own!!.. he is such a wildcat!!

After our baths we headed home for a big sleep.. It was cool because Uncle Pitko stayed with us…
He got to sleep right up high on the big bunk

Saturday was a day of rest.. Mum was a bit sick so she slept most of the day so we just hung out and played with Tyler, Caitlyn, Olly and Sienna… Although mum was sick she could still be heard saying
“have an easy day.. tomorrow is going to be big”

Sunday (wedding day) rolled around really quick.. Mum was feeling much better so we started the day with an hour on the beach… and Dad threw a few lines in..
I went for another swim.. I love the beach.. Bub built some more sand castles… he loves doing that too.. and Lily just wondered around exploring…

she was really excited when dad caught a fish and wanted to know all about it..

Dad was more then happy to share his experience.. My dad loves fishing!!

We then headed up for a BIG sleep and then get ready for the wedding… Dad left early as he was one of the people that stand up the front.. so Mum got us all ready to go…
She said that Joe and I looked so handsome.. and Lily looked like a little princess

The wedding was nice and before long it was time to hit the dance floor…

We had a great time and Joe and Lily got their groove on as well… we then got to eat this really yummy cake and as the night wore on it did take it’s toll on the young kids…
Lily was the first to flake and Joe wasn’t far behind..

but they just slept in the corner while I continued to have a good time..
Tyler was having an ok time.. I think he was feeling a little sick and tired but I kept him company until the night finished..

Tyler and I are best mates…

We got home just after midnight and it was straight to bed..

The next day we got up early and Mum was a little cranky as Dad was now feeling a little sick, the funny thing was that Dad didn’t get cranky when Mum was sick on Saturday.. But Mum said.. it was a different sick and Dad didn’t get any sympathy… i just went with the flow.. We left at 9am for our long
drive home.. We watched some movies and had a few sleeps, we stopped for lunch at Coffs which was just as well cause Bubba was nattering on in an uncontrolled state chanting “abc.net.au/giggle and hoot.. over and over again… who chats web sites ???.. i put it down to the fact that he was tired and hungry…
We got home about 6.30pm and all jokes aside we all had a great trip… Joe, Lily and I all said we would be extra good cause it had been a big weekend for everyone..
and the best thing was that Ma had cooked pasta for us for dinner!!..