First Day Outside A Splashing !!!

The weather was great today, not too hot and warm enough to see how Amber was going to do with cold water ... so we inflated a new little pool which I got and put some water in there early in the day so it could warm up some and then Dave put together a water play table that Nana, Oupa, Gavin and Gigi gave Amber for her birthday and then we were ready for some fun. When Amber woke up it was time to play.

I think I got maybe five or so pics of her with this hat on, she wanted nothing to do with the hat, I don't know what I am going to do in Summer coz she needs to keep her head covered at the pool. She looked cute in this little bathing suit, no diaper of course so Jade was all about so when is Amber going to pee ... really I am telling you that was the excitement of her day and she never did (hehehe) !!! Or not that we knew anyway.



I think Jade enjoyed the table more today but in time I think they will both fight over it.



Look at those legs, actually not as big as what Jade was but still I am sure my dad will say, legs to kick start a bowing !!!



Her poor knees were taking a hounding, thankfully she is wise enough to walk on hands and feet when that happens.



I am still amazed that even though there is an almost 7 years age difference between these two that they still play so well together, ok sometimes :-)



Ok mommy I am worn out and done for the day and that water is cold and there's a storm coming ... which never came even though we had the thunder ... it was time to go inside but we had a fun time and now that I am home more, she and I are going to do this in the mornings to pass the time.



Ok that's me for now.

Saturday 15th May 2010

I got the girls all dressed up similar but you can't really see it in these pics unfortunately since they looked really cute together. Dave was taking the pics and I was trying to get them to look at the camera which I thought I had managed to get right but where I was making them look and where Dave was taking the pictures didn't work out :-( they would have been even better so sorry !!! These were taken on our catwalk upstairs in our house.







Cannot believe I got her to look up from the DS for one second to take this picture and she was actually happy enough about it to smile :-)





We went to the Waxhaw Festival the morning, nothing too much to write about, it was cute, there was actually a war inactment which was pretty good, I took some video, when I get a chance I will try and load it. Anyway Jade was busy hula hooping and Amber was watching form up high with daddy ...



Ok I think this is one of my favorite pics of Amber :-) Love it !!!



Making her Nana proud.



With Harry :-)



We had a nice morning and then home to relax the rest of the day ... oh I have to work :-( not so bad though !!!

Gynastics Observation Day / Trophy Day

This past Thursday was gymnastics observation day and trophy day, this is the day when parents are allowed up close and personal in the gym to see what their kids have learnt over the last season.

Thank Heavens Dave could come too coz Amber is at the age where she wants out of her stroller very quickly so going out is becoming more of a challenge, at least having Dave there he could take care of her while I was taking pics. As you can see she was having lots of fun too, was very chuffed with herself up high here :-)



Jade doing a back handspring, which she has been landing for a while now but sometimes it's perfectly done, other times golly I worry how she is going to land ... she is so bloody independent that it worries me that she wants to do it unassisted all the time. This was the first time I saw her attempt a roundoff back handspring and not long till she will have that perfect too, that was a proud moment for me :-) Still not sure if we are going to continue at this gym though ... we will see during Summer how things go.



Jade getting her end of year trophy, she brags that she has four trophies now and I think 4 medals :-) My rising star (hehehe).



This is the only class pic I got because all the others Jade has the trophy in front of her face, typical !!! Anyway they have two more weeks and then the season is officially over till school starts the end of August again, so Thursdays will now be slow, thank God !!!



I took some video, they took forever to upload so I really hope you can see them.

NOTE : DOUBLE CLICK ON THESE VIDEOS COZ THEY DIDN'T LOAD RIGHT AND YOU CANNOT SEE THE ENTIRE FRAME SO WHEN YOU DOUBLE CLICK THEY WILL OPEN IN YOUTUBE AND YOU SHOULD SEE THEM BETTER, ALSO CLEARER I THINK.











Hope you enjoyed those :-)

Few Pics Of Ambers Birthday Party

Again don't have time to do an update but thought if I don't add pictures every now and again then I am going to get very behind. So here you go, these are just a few pictures of the party, very small party, sorry Amber just three families and their kids but I think we all had a good time :-)

Here are two pics of Ambers birthday cake, with a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme.



Another angle.



Then just a picture of some of the brunch stuff I layed out in our dining room.



This was Ambers individual first birthday cake, very much a tradition here, you get these cakes free and some stores for your babies first birthday celebration and they get to do with them as they like, thankfully as you will see later, Amber is really for sure my kid more than Daves, coz look how tidy an eater she was and there was no mess !!!



Obviously as soon as we lit the candle she wanted to grab for it and then I think was a little freaked out after we all quickly grabbed and held her hands ...



Getting a taste of frosting ...



Jade wondering if she is ever going to share that cake with her ...



Jade getting closer, watch out Amber before you know it the cake will be gone !!!



Daddy making sure that Amber is enjoying that :-) Can you tell she is ???



Look how tidy she ate, yeah it was all over her face but she was just showing how much she enjoyed it, but look how neat the cake is and we left her with it for a very long time, and yeah that big chunk, she pretty much ate most of that :-)



Another birthday down, wow ... ok till later.

Happy First Birthday Amber

Amber knows better than to have a birthday on a Thursday, I don't have time for birthdays on a Thursday so quickly ... I am running out the door to have lunch with Jade at school but wanted to quickly upload these six pics for you guys to see some pics of her on her birthday. We will take more at her little party on Saturday !!!

Gosh cannot believe she is one day ... Happy Birthday my babygirl Amber !!! My miracle baby, I love you !!!

It's coolish in the house so I put the long pants under the dress for now, it has matching little pantie thingies :-) My computer says 24 degrees outside so it's going to be a hot one since it is still early morning.



Not walking yet but cruising the furniture for sure, don't think she is near walking ... we have her one year check at the doctor on Monday, bet she is going to be like her sister ... tall for her age.



Didn't get any really cute ones, really just didn't have the time really I will try and take more later ... just knew you guys would ask for pics today and this is the only time I had, sorry I rushed so.









And how her hair is coming in ... all over the bloody show in whatever direction it wants to go, like have a bad hair day every day with her, but I just did this and blow dried it so it looks a little respectable for about the next ten mins or so. It looks really dark and I always say poor Amber having a blonde hair blue eyed sister but if the two of them put heads together, Jades dark root during Winter are the same as Ambers so ... we will see maybe Jade won't stay blonde forever :-) And green eyes for now but they will probably go brown.

Ok that's me for now, have to run. Have a good day.