Home Baking

Yesterday Emma had a party to go to at Chipmonks which is an indoor adventure playground that does parties. When I was dropping her and her friend Lucy there, Paddy and Georgie were so upset they couldn't stay they cried all the way home in the car. So a bit of home baking was needed and they were very happy indeed. They just love to cook, but I think they just like licking the bowl at the end, yum I did as a kid in fact I still do!

Trampoline fun

The Girls were having such a good time on the trampoline and they were begging John to join in, and the good Dad that he is, he happily obliged!!!! I did this once and believe me I ached for days, oh to be young and agile again!

A shopping trip

Yesterday my Mum, myself and Paddy went shopping. Paddy didn't go to kindy yesterday because she said she had a sore tummy, hmmmmm I just think she wanted to go out with her Mum and Nanny. Having twins you very rarely have one on one time with either of them, in fact I think it was the first time Paddy had been out without her twinny Georgie! It actually felt a little odd, but Paddy LOVED it. She was like the cat who got the cream, I think she practically hugged herself the whole time! At one stage when we were sitting down for a cup of tea she whispered to me 'I like it without Georgie' (I don't think she really meant it, but I think it was very novel to be on her own!) You forget what it was like just to have one, with Emma we did so much with her, but then 20 months after she was born we had another two babies and things have been chaotic ever since, and you know what I wouldn't change it for anything in the world!!

The Walking School Bus!

Emma has joined the Walking School Bus and she was very excited about it. There is different points where everyone meets up and then it is off to school. Today John was one of the conductors! He wasn't to sure about the yellow jacket he had to wear! What a good sport John! I think the walking bus is such a good idea, it gets the kids walking, the parents get to chat to other parents and it is good for the environment! After watching a few shows on really fat people I think this is a good way to get children into exercise and the really enjoy it.
One of the shows we watched there was this man who hadn't got out of bed for four years and he weighed over 1000 pounds, that is so huge it is unbelievable. Can you imagine eating that much food to get that big. The amazing thing was someone took him all this food as he hadn't left his bed in those four years, and he only ate junk food. He was eating 30,000 calories a day, that is what a normal man eats in two weeks! I think I am still in shock!

Haircuts for the Walsh Girls

As it was the school holidays and the girls hadn't had their cut since January I thought it was high time they had a haircut. The girls love going to the hairdressers! They get their hair washed, cut and blow dried and they think it is the business! Very grown up indeed! Here is the end result, very nice. It is hard to believe but they had about three inches cut off their hair, if only my hair grew so quickly!

Stumpy!

Stumpy has a name, Paddy has called her 'Lucy Lucky Walsh'! Where that has come from I have no idea but it is so cute. Stumpy is included in everything we do. Yesterday I was doing Pilate's in the living room and of course the kids joined in, half way through Paddy told me stumpy was really good at it too. Stumpy also tells lots of stories. Every morning the kids hop into bed with us and stumpy always has a story to tell, it makes us laugh, but I am so pleased that Paddy wants to include stumpy in everything and also the way she talks about it so freely. The other day though she did say to her Nanny, stumpy wishes she had toes. Mum was a bit lost for words I think. That doesn't happen too often though, otherwise I think stumpy is pretty happy with things!!