Popsicles

Lachy helps me make smoothie popsicles.
From this recipe here

Materpieces

Our finished paintings. I LOVE the golf one.

Project Preview

We had mates over! Just a casual Friday morning playdate party with the neighbor kids.

After a nap I let the Gligs destroy the driveway with paint.  I lined up several projects while they slept that I looked up on Pinterest. A footprint project, painting with golfballs, sidewalk chalk paint, and painting over sticker-letters that spell their name when you pull the stickers off later.

Here Lachlan has already tried to eat the paint. Notice his green foot. Now they think painting the bottoms of their feet is normal.

Spilling was the most exciting part. This stuff was just cornstarch and water and food coloring. Came right off everything. Was perfect for this young age (1 and 3).

Lachlan tries to paint with golfballs. Just wants to throw golfballs.

 Sunny liked this activity- might have to do some of these sans brother.

Jason thought we painted golfballs today.

Perfect ballerino in third position

Finished projects to follow....

Swapped

Jason admitted today that he's terrible at mowing the lawn, but good at corralling the kids and maintaining the house.

Thats a relief. Because I enjoyed mowing today. And was good at it.

I can deal with the kids, but they wear me out.

& house is a mess.

Drei jahre alt.

Look at this sassy 3 year old who wanted her birthday cake for brekkie:

She's gone from this tiny 6lb newborn... to a tiny 3 year old Pixie.

Doilies. Yes doilies

Love this. As soon as my crochet doilies came in the mail I sat down and strung them together. I saw this idea on my cousins Pinterest and when I searched for some they were $20 and up. I would never pay that, especially when I found these here for $3.50. And I have string and know how to use it. Here's the finished project strung up under my other garland in the kids' playroom:

Day 2 of Summer Projects

I dont know who I'm turning into: this mom who does crafty projects with her kids?? Not that I dont want to, or that I dont have fun, but I dont normally have time and I figured it was time consuming and a mess. I am pleasantly surprised that the ideas I'm finding on Pinterest are fun and engage Sunny. I think its just her age: she's able to do these projects now and spend time on them which makes it worth the preparation and cleanup. She'll be 3 next week.

Here she is playing with baking soda, a water dropper and colored vinegar.

Lachlan plays on the floor with spoons and a bowl while Sunny does fun stuff. He likes to make noise.

Obstacle Course

Attempt number 2. Destruct-atron Lockie foiled our plans initially. But once he went to sleep we were able to play "under-over" for awhile. I'm betting that when daddy gets home we'll play even longer. If Lachlan hasnt pulled it all down.

Glig Nursery

The Glig nursery. Its not finished, but I finally looked at it in another light the other day- pretty cool! Almost done! Still a work in progress, but we've crossed a threshhold here.

I'd like to thank Pinterest. HomeGoods. ETSY. For the inspiration+ideas

Momma Said There'd be Glig Afternoons Like This

I was feeling like a bad mom; all we ever do for fun is watch Greys Anatomy or dress Lachlan up in Sunny's dresses:

 I looked up something to do with toddlers online. I'm that uncreative.

Maybe you've seen this idea on Pinterest. Maybe you also thought it looked easy and carefree and fancyfun. But dont be fooled. This foil-river is a trick. Its only going to make your 2p-5p seem to double in time. The opposite of what you're looking for..

Here the Gligs are seemingly having a fabulous time. I even dug a hole at the bottom of our river, a quaint pond, to catch all our boats that I thought should flow down there. Then we could fish. This is what I get for planning... I could've stopped the photos here, just said it was amazing and that we accomplished another successful Pinterest idea.

But its so much funnier to document that then this happened, Lachlan Earthquake 4.0

So the river was saved, by me, the Mayor. I dammed it up and shortened it it record time to save the people.  From tantrums.

Sunny & I took the time to cut my new carton of eggs and make small sailboats with them, something I read that sails the best. Here Lachlan is chewing on a sail. And now my eggs are laying all over the counter without a home. For nothing. ps. nothing "sailed best" on this crappy river.

Here's a dogs eye view. Vegemites', in fact. If she hadnt constantly jumped on our river, chewed holes in it, and other general mayhem, I might've given this project 3 stars out of 10. But she did all those things. So I give this project a 2.

After that shot I'd had enough. I didnt roll up the river for another day, as the other blogger did. I balled it up and and threw it straight into the garbage bin outside and was sad that I'd wasted so much tin foil. Then the best part of the entire tin-foil river-with a useless-lake-at-the-bottom project was when Lachlan fell into the hole:


He had mud and bits of grass in places that hadnt seen that much mess in a long time since yesterday.

Sunny tried to help him out, but he hated it. In the end I had to put him in the bathtub. While I blogged. About why he was in the bathtub. Which is right now. At least he had on cool new boardies, thanks to Jenny Lee  :)

Hope You're Ready for this Party

Here is our newest member of our family, the puppy formerly known as Vegemite. A cool name for an Aussie dog, yet my 3 year old just couldnt quite remember which toast spread our dog was called. So she's always called her Jam.

Welcome to The Glig Life, Jammy Jam.

Sunnys Bday pressies

I am so excited to have Sunnys birthday presents here and put together. Jasons parents got her this dollhouse and it arrived yesterday! I assembled it when I put the mini Gligs down for a nap. And then the people I ordered came in the mail too! I might've reenacted a few scenes before taking these photos then covered the entire thing up with a blanket for the big reveal day




Here are the grandparents with uh, some of the kids. All of the kids that will live in this house. The middle kid is clearly adopted.


This dad is wearing his baby! Perfect!

The house comes with its own sun shade. And wind turbine. Recyling bins. Water runoff catcher... garden, and the plants that climb up the sides of the home insulate it. Wish this was my actual home...

The theme of Sunnys party this year is "Purplelicious" She is obsessed with the color, even though I encouraged other more appealing colors to love like orange, red, yellow.... no. She likes purple.

They have clothes!

I knew there were some decent deck photos I'd taken! Here they are, my kids with clothes on:

We have playdates on the deck.

Glig water slide

Couldnt resist:

Our yearly kiddie pool purchase

Contemplating a sandbox date

Ok, it was worth birthing them for this shot

Pretending they've never seen each other before

Eh, now that she's gone I can chill

Sebastian Skydive

This is what we tell the kids the name of this place is. Which it is. But the bar is called ZOO BAR and Jason and I refer to it as such. We go here at least once a week, load up our wagon with snacks (or get chips there) and push our way through the throng of European backpackers. Its our own piece of Noosa, Australia 2miles down our street. And we love it.

Plenty of space for exploring alone:

Daddys girl

Snacks snacks snacks

Mommy exists! Not just a phantom blogger

Another sighting of mommy!

Tabletop baby

Bridge back home...

Good Free Fun

The kids were nervous at first, when we arrived to the beach. With a hurricane far out at sea, the waves were bigger than we'd ever seen them and louder, too. Lachlan cried. But as they realized their daddy and I werent scared, they started to relax, enjoy themselves even. They had the comfort of a shady tent by mommy which had food and drinks, and daddy built a wall of sand around them to protect them from the incoming tide. Until the tide took it away. Good free fun.
I helped out an elderly lady who was soaked by a freak wave nearby. No one else got wet but her. We moved her towel to drier land and she asked if my kids were twins. We get that often, not that its obvious from the picture below-- Sunny's closer to the lens and thus looks bigger. In reality, Lachlan is creeping up to her height, the only thing different from her currently. They've been in the same diapers for 6mo (if Sunny wears one), same size pants/jammies/tops. The 'twins' comments are yet to come, I'm sure.

The Beginning of Summer 2012

 I had a lot of outdoor photos to post, but my kids were naked in all of them. Even the most tasteful "grape leaf" covering the parts was not tasteful enough for an online blog that anyone can read. I will just have to clothe my kids more often. I'll paint a picture of my inappropriate pictures: Imagine our deck - a kiddie pool under the shade of our oak tree, a slide that I rigged next to it so the kids fly naked into the water, and my lounge chair nearby in the sun so I can get a tan and watch the entire thing. Periodically the kids think they're being naughty by coming over to where I'm tanning and pour water onto my legs from their buckets. Its a good afternoon.

 Insert redneck comment here.
Or a quote for Lachlan, who clearly is trying to relay a message to his parents.

He eats with a spoon. Sometimes it gets into his mouth.

Something happened here. Still trying to figure it out 

She wanted a photo taken. Fake smile.