This Family Robinson: Theo

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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

The water boy

This guy was so desperate to get in the pool tonight and join his brothers and cousins..

I found him sans nappy - he had yanked that baby off and thrown it through the fence in disgust and was trying to get his tshirt over his head like he was a big kid or something!

oh the cheek!

our water boy doesn't get the message that he is actually still a baby!

(and by the way, don't you just LOVE the new look! thank you Talia for the revamp!)

Monday, 3 February 2014

this week - a stills collection

1. Capsicums a-ripening in the greenhouse

2. Through the fence - wishing our yard included this space!

3. Baby olives

4. Sneeky, cheeky boy!!

5. Getting my bake on - so many tummies and lunchboxes to fill.. its a neverending story!

6. Succulents. My fav.

7. My five school babies. Only two left at primary now! The years are flying.. slow down!!

Joining in over here

Monday, 6 January 2014

1. Oh yanno.... just standing here chillin' with my bro's while we fill up on plums...
2. Party time! We celebrated our baby's first birthday with loads of family, friends and amazing food.
3. Nothing like filling your plates with bounty from the sea and bounty from your garden to make life feel grand.
4. Birthday boy
5. I cannot get enough of these blooms... they fill every available vessel in my home right now

I hope your new year has started beautifully and you are feeling refreshed,

restored and energised after the holidays.

Joining in with Em for the weekly stills collection

Saturday, 4 January 2014

One Year Ago....

.... this happened

... and our lives were turned upside down in the most wonderful way.

Theodore (Teddy) Beau Philip Robinson entered our lives on January 5th 2013 (a whopping 9lbs 8oz) and brought with him the most wonderful sunshine.

Our lives have been enriched, filled to the brim with love and completely and utterly transformed with the arrival of this gorgeous wee man.

He has helped heal broken hearts, fixed teenage angst and added a richness to our lives

that we would never have thought possible.

My son...

while I cannot even begin to understand where a whole year has gone... I also can hardly remember life without you here!

Your brothers still race in to be the first to hold you in the morning... your beautiful chuckle when your siblings play with you never fails to make everyone else laugh in turn, those facial expressions you have mastered are priceless and we are all taking huge delight in watching you learn to walk.

This has been the most wonderful, wonderful year and I am saddened that it has come to an end. Sad to not have a wee babe in my arms but excited too as you begin to develop more and more of your personality. You are incredibly cheeky... that grin when you know you are being disobedient makes it so hard to punish you! You are so very stubborn too - but also oh! so eager to please! You still don't sleep through the night and I am exhausted with the waking but I treasure that time with you in the dead of the night when no one else is awake and its just you and me. You are very welcome to sleep through though son... I would treasure sleep just the same!

Your dad and I are so grateful that the Lord gave you to us and we pray that we will be worthy of such a precious gift and always seek to be the parents He has called us to be.

I pray my Teddy boy...as one year rolls into two and two to three, your toddler years to childhood and your adolescence to adulthood that you would know the love of your Saviour, that you would grow to be a man of faith, a lover of wisdom and a follower of Christ.

May you heed the counsel of your father and honour your mother.

HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY THEO!!!

We love you with all our hearts

Sunday, 17 November 2013

A {BRIEF} WEEKLY STILLS COLLECTION

1. Backyard fun... who would have thought that the humble badminton game would provide hours and hours of entertainment.

2. Baby's first swim. A bit of a natural it turns out.

3. Last weekend was party central as our girl turned 15. Wowzers. Teenagers for Africa... family for miles and a party that lasted all weekend. Crazy wonderful chaos.

4. The husband and I celebrated 16 years of wedded bliss by spending nearly a whole week in the gorgeous Queenstown. A rejuvenating.. wonderful.. blissful week. (more on this to follow as soon as I find a spare moment)

5. The bliss of that week was rewarded with an awfully sick baby on our return home. Nothing, and I mean nothing got done while he snuggled and recovered.

Hope your week has been beautiful

I promise to be back asap to bore you with loads of photos from our trip away!

Joining in with the Beetleshack for the stills collection

Monday, 2 September 2013

~ THIS WEEK {AND AN FEW MISSING ONES TOO} ~

1. This baby is already a bit of a regular on the cafe scene

2. Beautiful Billy

3. Big, long, delish dinners; full of laughter, food and loads of family - perfect combinations

4. My man and I (someone is less than impressed with getting his picture taken by the look of it)

5. Would you check out that HAT! (and the baby... oh the cuteness!!)

6. This guy. One of the best dad in the business. My kids are blessed to have him as their father and I am super blessed to get to do life with him by my side. I hope he had an amazing fathers day... we loved spending it with him.

7. Speak evil of no one... avoid quarraling... be gentle and show perfect courtesty. A brilliant way to live life.

Loving that spring has sprung and September is here.

Oh yeah... see ya later stinky old winter.

Would someone please explain where this year has gone though?! I just can't get my head around the fact that 9 months have passed since this happened.

Joining in with the lovely Em from the Beetleshack for the weekly stills collection

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

7 MONTHS OLD

Actually its more like 7.5 to be honest so I had to get these pictures in quick before September rolls around and I missed the entire seventh month!

Woah mama... would someone please STOP THE BUS and let me catch my breath! I simply cannot believe that this much time has passed since this wee boy entered our lives ~ although in saying that, I can barely remember life without him.

He is crawling like a crazy thing now and climbing up on everything he can reach. He doesn't like sleeping thank you very much so tends to do as little of it as possible. Unless I cuddle and snuggle him to sleep then he is quite happy.

Which (shhhh - secret squirrel) is just fine by me.

He isn't too fond of solid food either unless he is eating it all by himself so ...

go the baby led weaning!!

He also has decided sleeping through the night is just for little babies and since he is such a big boy now he can wake up and get cuddles and food from mama instead.

All night parties round here!

...by the way, would you get a load of that hat!!

Is that not the cutest thing you have ever seen!

He has one very talented aunty alice.

On another note it is lovely to be enjoying this baby without the desperately sad feeling that I no longer have a tiny newborn around. I wondered if the feeling that I was 'done' would ever come and I am glad to say that for the first time ever. It has.

I am loving everyday with this precious treasured gift but I don't have the aching sense of loss that I have had in the past as my babies have grown.

Phew.

(I was a little worried there!!)

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

~ this week ~

1. It's been a wet and stormy week... perfect for fires and hot chocolates

2. Surrounding myself in happy yellowness and bringing sunshine inside *

3. Playing peek-a-boo in the mirror... rainy day fun

4. Cousins all the way from Taiwan! Pizza and movie night.. Yah!

5. Winter warmness... complete with thrifted woolens**

6. I've been sick... this is the worst!

Joining in with the Beetleshack for the weekly stills collection

*I was lucky enough to win this giveaway over at Mend and Make New and this candlestick is what I chose. Thank you Jamie Kay!

** apologies to all my Instagram followers who are seeing some of these photos for a second time and for the grainy awful photos... still battling away on my phone camera for the time being.