This is Isla, Bridget's youngest daughter! Bridget is my cousin. Her Mom Betty is my Mom's sister! Isla is 9 days older than Jordy but a whole head taller! Bridget, Caitlin, Malachy and Isla are visiting us this week as Malachy is playing in a tennis tournament!

These little babies are too cute!

This is the view from Callyn's room at the moment. Jordy took the opportunity to climb up the burglar bars!

Caleb, Brdaley and Tadan came to play on Friday. The boys had fun in the sand and the water!

Someone is .....

getting old......and needs reading glasses!

These are temporary ones from Clicks until his appointment with the opthamologist on the 27th October!

Our new toy!

On Thursday I bought an electric egg boiler machine.....

...and now all the kids want to eat are dippy eggs!!!!!

The egg cups were Russ and mines when we were kids!

Now the eggs are just perfect! I could never get it right on the stove as they usually came out too hard!

Babies

These of 2 of the 6 baby hamsters. I'm a bit worried as the mommy has moved the nest to the wheel and left these 2 babies in the house below. The daddy sometimes goes in and lies with them but he can't feed them.

They are only 4 days old so I guess the mommy has decided she can only raise 4??

Tonsillectomy

I woke Callyn up at 6:10am this morning to take him to City Med to have his tonsils taken out! He was a bit tearful as we left but was a lot braver than I thought he would be! He was not too impressed with the hopsital gowns and underwear!

It took 12 second for him to fall asleep with the gas. In the end he was kicking and fighting the gas! We left when he was asleep and about 45 minutes later he was wheeled back into the ward.

He cried a lot when he started waking up. He was in a lot of pain and all he wanted to do was go home! When he was properly awake we gave him medicine, got him dressed and prepared to leave but the sister said he had to eat first. so while he was eating his icecream I ran downstairs to the pharmacy to get his medicines and Donovan sat with him. He wanted Daddy to drive him home so off they went in the Porsche and I met them at home. We just sat around watching TV and DVD's all day and he played his new car game on the computer. I have just put him to bed with a long story and he cuddled me so tightly until he fell asleep. Precious boy!

Practise

We had a practise make up run for the dress rehearsal!

Almero

This is Carina's little baby boy, Almero. He looks just like Cara, especially the lips!

Our Babies!

Introducing little hammies! I guess we missed the birth and the first week as these hammies look to be about 2 weeks old!

The Happy Family

Mommy, Daddy and twins!

Hamsters

Do you remember the other day when we bought 2 female baby hamsters........






well........................





.........they had BABIES!




Just before church today, Callyn came running to me and opened his hand and there was the cutest little baby hamster! It had its stripes and was about 4cm long but its eyes were closed! I said "Where did you get that?". He calmly answered, "In the age. The female hamster gave birth."

I was so excited and we ran to show Daddy! We didn't have time to look for more but the mommy was pleased to have her baby back and carried it up into the wheel where she had made a nest!

When we got home later we discovered another one. So I guess we didn't get 2 females! Now what do we do with this happy family. Even the daddy is helping to build the nest. How can we split up a happy family. But if we don't we might end up with a family of 100 before the end of the year. The gestation period is 21 days and they can have 14 babies in a litter. Luckily we only have 2 although maybe there were more! So tomorrow Callyn says we must go to the pet shop where we bought the hamsters and tell the 'aunty" that she made a mistake! We'll ask her advice and maybe sell some babies back to her!

Callyn had said that he wanted a boy hamster so I told him today that his hamster was actually a boy. He argued a bit and said we bought a girl but I told him you can only get babies if you have a mommy and a daddy hamster so his must be the daddy. I am waiting in fear for the next question............

Biker chick .....again!

The kids are loving the warm weather and have decided there is now no need for clothes!

Blue sucker face!

Spiderman!

Spring is in the Air!

The tortoises have come out of hibernation and are enjoying the warm weather!

The pool cover came off and the kids enjoyed the warmish water!

Nothing like a paddle in a shell in the pool with spades as oars!

Miss Muffet and her pink watering can!

Sweetie Day

Friday's are Sweetie Days so Callyn chose a Bar One - his new favourite chocolate and Jordy had a Tex!

A big kiss for a little sister!

This brave boy is having his tonsils out next Friday!