Dalls Bells

This little kid is almost 18 months.....1 month away from being legal in nursery. Yes, I'm counting down!!!!!

Junior Story time at the Ranui Library...look who plonked herself right next to the teacher.

Grandie's little Maori boy playing with the poi

Just before 15 month immunisations. Gotta be cruel to be kind sorry darling

After...

Dad and the big kids going to Gengis for dinner last weekend (Bishopric Dinner)

Mummy and Dalls had a little one on one date to Pooks Road Takeaways (yes she's eating a carrot, her brother taught her that little trick...his fav snack)

Mummy threw caution to the wind and decided to have our chips picnic style in the lounge. She was so excited about that little fact that she only ate about 5 chips and just looked around at how cool it was to be eating on the floor!

And that's a wrap. Lets just lie down to recover

This kid really protests about the highchair sometimes and her favourite thing to do is climb up on a chair and onto the table. Don't know what's worse, her dropping things in the toilet, or emptying out half eaten bowls of porridge and weetbix all over the table/floor!

And now that Mummy's starting full time work on Monday, she's also a big 5 day a week kindy girl.....and she loves it thank goodness. Can't believe this girl is walking, dancing, and even doing a little talking now

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Dallin turns 1

This gorgeous baby of mine is 1. Makes me teary as I type that cause my baby is growing up, but it also feels so good at the same time.

We had a lil (well kinda big), party for her last weekend....lots of cuzzies came up and over and it was a super fun Friday night and Saturday with them all.

A little pre-birthday organising....lolly skewers for the kids....

And 3 different slices for the adults. In the week leading up to the party, I'd had people randomly talk to me about all of these slices and how much they love them so that's why they were chosen. Apricot, Coconut and Passionfruit, Reeses & Ginger + Pistachio.

My hot hubby and I got to go out to a restaurant for a sneaky dinner on Friday night thanks to Aunty Sarah and Aunty Bex who dealt with all the crazies/cuzzies. Such a nice surprise to get dressed up and go out for a couple of hours

I didn't take any pics of our outing to Chipmunks which was pretty manic due to it being a rainy saturday, last day of the school holidays, and 10 parties being booked there. Usually we'd last there at least 3 hours, but after an hour we were struggling to keep them there. So when they were well and truly spent, it was back home for party central out on the deck

These pics hint at how Ella's party will go down next month!

Love this pic of the two beautiful ladies in red lippy!

Now since this little madam has turned 1, I should say 1 thing I love about her, but that's pretty darn hard since there's a whole lot to love about her. So it might just be a long, long sentence to try and fit some of it in.

I love this girl for her cheeky smile, especially the way she scrunches up her button nose, for her compliance when I tell her off in her bed (if she's protesting about sleep, which is quite rare these days) and say 'sleepy time' and she leans back on her pillow and gives me a little grin, for her skinny little body and how she wobbles and sways when she tries to stand up on her little pins, for her giggles if you say 'where Dallin? there you are!!!', for her lip sucking when she's tired, and for her climbing all over me when I'm on the floor, wanting to be close and give big cuddles. She's a gem this girl, and I love her to pieces.

With that said, we're now onto prepping for Ella's Make Up/Rainbow Party....exciting!

Our Baby is 1!!!!

I can't believe our itty bitty Dally Bubba is 1.....and I haven't even seen her as a 1 year old. She's on her way back from her Easter holiday now and just in the nick of time I've finished her 1st Birthday DVD.

More to come on her birthday, cake, presents later

Are you for real?!?!?!? Poor Dallin

Because the kid's usual daycare day is Friday and that's a stat holiday this week and next, I was onto it enough to swap it a month or so back so I could still have my 'sanity day' for these 2 weeks of Christmas and New Years. Today was the Monday before Christmas, the one I've planned to do last minute shopping, present wrapping, the usual bits and pieces that are always easier to do without 3 pre-schoolers, and hopefully have a moment to put my feet up. All that was shot to pieces when I got a phone call from daycare at about 12:45pm....something about Dallin's toe...sore....something on it.....crying when they try and get it off.....might need to see a doctor.

So off I went to pick her up and see what the dealio was. This is what I found......

The pictures don't really show just how crazy and serious it was. Down to the hospital we went. They reckoned it we hadn't noticed it for a while longer we could have been taking a sock off with a little toe dropping out all by itself!!!

Everyone was coming in to look at the baby with the sore toe and giving ideas of how to get it off.....hair removal cream (in case it was a hair wrapped tightly around). No one was having any luck despite 4 of us holding her down a few times to get tweezers, needles, other scary sharp implements at it. My poor baby!!!!

She was such a lil' trooper. Everyone couldn't get over how smily she was, especially with such a sore toe

Despite her smiles she eventually got fed up with all the poking and squeezing of the little digit

So after a couple of hours and many attempts, some cold cream and a sharp thingy ma bob and they managed to get it out...a little bit of purple cotton from a sock.

What the heck. Who'd have thought wearing a sock could end up in surgery....and thank goodness it came out on that last go cause that was the next step.

Thankfully you'll never remember this my baby, but that's why I love writing our stories down and having a few pics to document the crazy things that happen sometimes.

Sweet Dreams my girl. Hope your toe looks and feels better in the morning!