After all those years with just one child, I am forever grateful for all my little sprouts. I LOVE how much they love each other, how much they enjoy each other. I love to hear them talking and playing and giggling together. They are the best things I have ever been given and the chance to enjoy each other is the best thing that I have ever given them.
We had a great day yesterday at the waterfront. We listened to buskers. It was fun and the crowds really got into it.
Rose thought the buskers were too loud. LOL
There were lots of boats in the harbour.
We sat and watched the boats and the jelly fish in the water.
Doesn’t this look a little like that the cover of Beatles album, Abbey road?
We saw the Harbour Hopper on land, giving a tour. I have always wanted to go for a ride on there.
We also saw the Harbour Hopper on the water too.
Wandering Aengus insisted that his girls deserved Cotton Candy.
Rose wanted no part of the Cotton Candy. As far as she was concerned, it wasn’t food at all. Lotus had some but then ripped the candy off and played with the stick. LOL
Lilly had no problems with the Cotton Candy and ate it ALL up!
This man was fun singing a song about the boardwalk.
I have seen this guy at the farmer’s market and wanted to get a pic of him. Since Wandering Aengus wore a kilt to our wedding, I have a soft spot for a man in a kilt.
The wooden statues outside the stores reminded me of that old song by Charlie Pride, “Kaw liga”
Lilly was pretend to slay the bear with her balloon sword.
I love the decor of the shops down at the waterfront, lots of wood and stone and barrels.
We watched the busker make balloon animals and got all the kids (except Reed at 2 months old, it seems unnecessary. LOL)
Wandering Aengus got me a balloon flower.
I loved the railway tracks. Since they are still active, Wandering Aengus vetoed any pics with people on the tracks.*pout*
The girls loved the ferry ride. It is fun that for the price of a bus fare, we get a chance to go for a ride on the water.
We had snacks while watching the buskers.
There are little things about having my baby that I want to cherish. Things I want to remember when he is older: the feel of his cheek against mine, the way he breaths quick heavy breaths as he is getting ready to fall asleep, the way he giggles in his sleep, how he can not drink a bottle without some dripping down his little chin, and how he stops crying the minute I pick him up. I even want to remember how he is absolutely against me eating, ever, at any point. It is so funny. The minute I think about food, he fusses to be fed. I feed him and then I get up to make me food and as I finish (no matter how quickly I grab something), he fusses to be fed again. Then as I sit down to eat my now room temperature food, he fusses again. I never get to eat unless someone else is here and takes him for a cuddle for a few minutes. Even then, after I am done, I have to cuddle him for a while. But I don’t mind. I just soak up every cuddle I can. I know how how quickly he will be too busy to stop and cuddle his mommy and I will remember all those cuddles, the ones when I was hungry, the ones when I was busy and all the kids wanted me at once, and even early in the morning hours before the sun is awake and I am half snoozing in our cuddle. He is sweet. He is so worth it.
Before throwing the girls into the bathtub, we cleaned out the their room. I swear I need a Hazmat suit when I get to digging around in there!! Anyway, when we did, we piled all the teddy’s, blankets, and pillows and threw them up on the top bunk. As soon as I did, Lotus (who has a cold, poor baby) climbed up there and jumped into them. She was so funny covering herself up in all that stuff looking very cozy and silly.
I had a great day with friends and their kids. It was fun a fun way to spend the long weekend and it was great to see all the kids running around having fun. All together there was 13 kids and 5 moms. One mom even had kids the same ages as my 3 youngest ones.
And my very favorite pic of the day . . . . all my little sprouts in one pic!
I love this pic. Lilly had placed baby books and one with a mirror around Reed while he was laying on the floor. He fell asleep looking in the mirror and this is what I got in the pic.
I had a busy day, shopping and cleaning and getting things done. It was fun but exhausting. What does it say about how old I am that a full day of shopping and cleaning completely wiped me out? I was good about my eating though. I allowed myself treats but they were vegetarian. I had a bean burrito with no cheese for lunch and a veggie pizza with no cheese for supper.
I realized that I hadn’t finished all the layouts for Lotus’ first year like I had planned to do and I want to have them done so I can compare them with Reed’s when I do them. So here is one that I did for when Lotus turned 10 months old.
I actually did a couple of scrapbook layouts today. I haven’t done any in a LONG time but I was inspired and I have to say I like the way they came out. They are a little simple but I like the expressiveness of them. (click to enlarge)
I just signed up for a free vegan e-cookbook! All I had to do was sign up for a newsletter (which will probably give me free recipes!) and I got a free e-cookbook as well! A good deal I figure.
I invented a recipe yesterday which was pretty good. The idea was simple.
It was kind of like a veggie shepherd’s pie but with stuffing instead of mashed potatoes. I really liked it.
And as a little bonus here is a cute picture of my Rose.
