Toddlerhood

our little zay boy is two.

i don't even know where those 730 days have gone.

i still remember the midwife 

(whilst i was mid push)

telling me "he looks like a ginger."

my dear boy,

you are one crazy kid.

you are full of life.

you are cheeky and mischievous

but you love your mumma like no ones business.

you have made me run over 1,000km's at least.

you can throw a wicked tantrum.

you are a screamer.

you make me work for just about everything.

but you have the most fun sense of humour.

your smile can light up the room.

your hair matches your personality and we love it.

my life would not be the same without you in it.

you are and will always be my baby boy.

we spent the day doing all your favourite things.

we got bliss balls from boost.

we walked around the shops going on all the little $2 rides that would work.

you ate a finger bun for lunch.

you swam all afternoon.

we got a slushy after school pick up.

we had a blue cake with sprinkles at your request.

you are one lucky boy to have two brothers that absolutely love you

(most of the time.)

i feel at peace to know that they will always looks after you and make sure that you're safe.

welcome to terrible two's and toddlerhood my beautiful boy.

let's try and make it to three.

It's A...

i got to take my friends announcements pictures on monday.

they did it in the most fun and creative way.

and can i just add that she whipped this up before she picked her kids up from school

- even more impressive, right ?!

 

i don't know if you can tell by brayds facial expressions but he desperately wanted a brother.

i told him to come over to my house and we would adopt him,

we have no shortage of that around our household.

but i'm way excited for this family,

they have such gorgeous girls.

and i know they are going to have another stunner for zayden to marry

lol.

Anger Management

let me starting off by saying

they do not lie about red heads.

them are some fiery individuals.

zayden is c r a z y.

i love the kid,

but he can go skitz in .00000000001 of a milli-second if you cross him.

and i've never EVER had a screamer.

i know those mums that are like 

"oh i've never had a child do this until this one"

and i was all 

"yeh whatever you just can't remember"

but i swear 

I HAVE NEVER HAVE A CHILD DO THIS UNTIL THIS ONE !

he is my ultimate challenge here in this earth.

he has all jevan and my crazy

all wrapped up in one.

have you ever watched inside out?

well anger rules zayden's head.

for example.

if makai reaches across him to pick up a pencil or pokemon card,

(he is very protective over his personal space)

zayden's teeth pounce on makai's arm and he doesn't let go.

love that boy

but man.

he's a handful.

the third time around 2's still suck !

A Gripe

today i woke up feeling that i could conquer the world,

by 9:45 i felt that the world just ate me for breakfast.

i have never in my adult life been (excuse my teenage jargon here) 

backstabbed until this morning.

and it was by someone i barely know who i was trying to help out.

after this happened i sat down in the car park and tears just kept on coming.

and my sweet wild children came and sat down by either side of me,

brax out his arm around me and said it's ok mum.

zayden sat on the other side mocking me lol

- we obviously need to teach this kid some compassion.

but i was never more grateful to have boys then that very moment.

i don't even feel sad about not having girls,

these boys are so kind and caring.

they always look out for me when i'm down.

enough of my griping.

people need to be more kinder

it make's the world a better place !

Baptism Photoshoot

a couple of sunday's ago i got to take some photos of my basically "niece" for her baptism.

i had so much fun doing them.

this was my first time EVER taking photos of someone other than my boys.

some people are blessed with confidence to become family photographers,

me - wasn't blessed with that talent lol.

i will take them on a low key kinda scale !

but i'm pretty happy with how these turned out.
it totally helps when your subject is absolutely stunning as well.

Hallelujah

guys,

i can't even tell you how monumental this event is in my life.

it may not seem like a big thing for you but for me it's GIGANTIC !

so i was in the shower yesterday morning getting ready

brax was still sleeping 

(it was 8 o'clock - that in itself is another miracle.)

i asked makai to go check on brax to start waking him up because it was a pre-school day.

he came back and told me he wasn't in his bed.

i didn't believe him because i'm normally the first point of contact/whining in the morning

"mum i want juice"

"mum i want breakfast."

etc,

so i went and checked and makai was right.

i called brax in a loud voice and he answered from downstairs.

i got dressed and came downstairs

to the most wonderful proud site.

braxton andrew ormsby had gotten his breakfast
this was including pouring the milk.

A L L  B Y  H I M S E L F

i was SO proud of this boy.

i literally (inside myself) jumped up and said hallelujah !

if you know my boys brax is the one that complains the most,
(he makes me want to hit my head against the wall sometimes)

he can't even walk around the corner from makai's school without complaining of the 5m distance.

i have never been so proud of him.

and can i just say that i think this new little trick he can do is here to stay.

two mornings in a row peeps !

Pre-K

mr bracky boy started his last year of pre-school.

he is going to riverstone public pre-school.

new situations are hard for bracky,

him and i are very similar.

so i was just as nervous for him as he was for himself.

 he was so very excited in the morning,

we dropped makai off and he was still excited to go.

as we pulled up and parked the car

i could see that reality was setting in for him.

we walked in together

and he got slower and slower.

his hand gripped tighter.

we signed him in, put his hat in his locker

(which he gets to share with his cousin he was pretty excited),

put his lunchbox and water bottle away.

his little eyes and mind were trying to take everything in.

i looked at him trying to be brave.

braxton is an inward feeler but i totally get him.

i gave him a big hug and then tears filled his eyes,

tears filled my eyes.

we had to walk out to put his bag away to compose ourselves.

this little boy is so tender he takes the weight of the world on his shoulders.

he is shy.

(those of you that know brax wouldn't believe it.)

but once he feels comfortable you can never get this boy to shut up !