Celebrations!

Life really does offer many opportunities to celebrate doesn't it? From international holidays to the milestones of our children...much joy! I think I've written before that my favourite celebrations are birthdays. I just love that every person gets a special day each year that's all about them! I'm not so naive as to think that birthdays are always happy days for everyone, but I love that, for the majority, people are thought about much more on 'their' special day, and I also love the unique traditions within families. We've discussed starting various traditions, such as special birthday BBQ breakfasts, but we haven't yet worked out the logistics of all our desired traditions. The traditions that have evolved without discussion or effort though, include:
~ Waking up to balloons
~ The birthday boy/girl choosing all their meals for the day and not having to lift a finger for so much as making a (real) coffee
~ Breakfast in bed if desired (I can't enjoy this pleasure myself for some reason, I always choose to be woken up with a lovely coffee and then eat at a table when I'm awake enough to enjoy it!)
~ Handmade cards (of course!)
~ Lots of hugs and kisses and best wishes for the day along with the giving of usually too many presents
~ The birthday boy/girl choosing how they want to spend the day and working everything else around this
~ Cake and coffee after dinner

We had a birthday in the family this week!

Remmy turned 32 on the 17th! We mostly followed our traditions except he had to go to work so didn't have a great deal of hours with us to be given all our attention. The boys and I spent the day blowing up the balloons that were left after his morning wake-up call, baking his cake (which had two layers of frosting inside so that little boys wouldn't eat the top of the cake only!), and making his card. He had a great day, receiving phone calls from all his family (and facebook messages from all of mine!), and it was his wish to watch some new birthday TVD's with me after the boys went to bed. We only had him home from 6:30-7:30am, and from about 7pm onwards, but he assures me he had a very special day. How could he not with sons as precious as these two?!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REMMY!! xoxo

There are many celebrations this month! One of Remmy's uncles turned 62 on the 5th, a good friend of mine turned 32 on the 6th, we had a 4th birthday party for some special triplet friends on the 13th, which was also my Dad's birthday (he would have been 61), a nephew turned 3 on the 16th, Remmy's 32nd on the 17th, my sister's 35th on the 20th, a niece turning 7 on the 24th, another niece turning 6 on the 25th (this is her and I with an early birthday present from us),

my cousin's son turns 8 on the 26th, we also have an early 21st birthday party for my eldest nephew on that day, and last, but not least, is Remmy and my 5th wedding anniversary (and 7th engagement anniversary!) on the 28th! What a busy month!

On Friday the boys and I packed up a mini picnic and headed off to the park! It's so fun watching them play together as they're growing. I must have taken 200 photos in a 2 hour window and I loved them all! It was a great reminder for me to just pick up that camera and snap away as often as possible. There are so many moments to capture.

I could stare at some photos of my boys for hours...they amaze me in so many ways. What special little people they are, I'm so lucky to be their Mummy!

Here's Gabriel just watching his big brother do things on the play equipment that he's just not yet big enough to try. I love that he's smiling...he has such a lovely spirit.

With a bit of help he got to experience the big slide for himself, with big brother watching in the background.

When it was time to go home the boys happily climbed into the pram (for possibly the last time together) to indulge in cola flavoured chup chups with the promise to come back to the park very soon.

Tired, happy, boys...joyful mum!

xx