Thursday, 4 April 2019

Dallin's 5th Birthday

Oh my goodness, my baby is 5 & I can't believe it. I'm equal parts happy and equal parts sad about it. She's at kindy for her last day today and on Monday I'll take her to school in her little blue uniform...The same one Faith and Ella wore when they started.
I remember 5 years ago when she was born so vividly. Time is a really funny thing. The days sure do go slow sometimes but my goodness the years go fast. What an emotional roller coaster for Mum! For Dally it's just all good.....so good!

Because she had a sneaky afternoon sleep on the day before her birthday, she came out for some Mum and Dad time while all the other kids were in bed


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That sleepy, wake up look x

With the birthday breakfast she's been eyeing up for the last couple of months. I don't think she likes it though cause yesterday and today I pretty much chucked all of hers out!












Dally's Graduation Ceremony at Kindy







So cool to have Luke (and Cat) here for the occasion












All the NZ cuzzies in the same place at the same time. Dad with his 4 daughters. How cool is that!

So many little specials......and her very own diarrhoea (diary!)





Clever Aunty B and big sissys made these beauties and they were sooooo good!










I love you soooooo much Dally...more than you know!

Here are 5 of the many reasons why....

1. You're fun to be around. You find joy in little things and it spreads to people around you

2. You talk to anyone, anywhere about anything. There are no boundaries or restrictions for you.

3. My Dally loves to learn and write and draw, and sing and dance. You don't hold back from doing what you wanna do. You give everything a good go and you can have a laugh if things go a bit pear shaped

4. You love to be with Mumma. You love doing special things and just normal every day things with me. Time together is the best! I love it when you chew my ear off

5. You are beautiful....so beautiful. Your smile can light up a room. You're equally comfortable in a pretty dress or tractor pants (haha!) or a sporty outfit. You just need to make sure it's not too skimpy these days aye darling!

So many more things I could say, but I need to rush off and get the kindy gift so I can come up and try not to cry through your last mat time :(

March - Poutu te Rangi



Summerland Stars Touch Rugby Team. 'The girls + Seth'





Saturday arvo movies with Booly


Date night with other couples at the chapel + these 3 princesses




Delish dinner I crashed up at the Leones. Will have to invite myself over for dinner more often!

Hanging out while I did some last minute prep for my first māori lesson

Look who we chanced upon at Pak n Save. Probably weirder if we didn't see him since he goes there pretty much every day!

She's a big job. Probably over half way now thank goodness


Last minute walk around the neighbourhood to collect rubbish and appease disappointed kids when Faith in God was cancelled....a lot of pies get eaten in our neighbourhood!

Look who I saw when I had to go on the field and supervise cross country practise

Sethy's much talked about pirate story


Nice one Faith





Hockey was a winner for the kids which was cool after they all had a big tangi when I told them I'd signed them up










The Annual Wild West Food Festival at school













I got to see Seth's cross country cause I was working in a junior class that day, but I missed seeing my big girls. To say I was soooo proud of them all is an understatement


Ella's softball team breakup party at ice-skating. Seth is the skating winner....he ran (not skated) around the rink for almost 3 hours straight!



Next......Dalls' 5th birthday. Sooo happy and soooo sad about it