Cranky Pants Jasper

A quick note :) I wrote this post about a 3 months ago but I never published it but after having another similar day today I think it's appropriate to bring it out of the 'drafts' folder. Fiona x

Today was crazy & my patience was almost non-existent! Oliver & Jasper were both in very loud and silly moods. They would not listen to anything I was saying and on the odd occasion they did listen that kept repeating everything I said which was driving me nutty!!!
It was really hard to try and stay calm. My girls are a huge help but I can feel their patience running low and that gets me even more frustrated!
I decided I needed a bit of a break and a nice hot cup of tea so I went down to a little local cafe that has a playground...surely that will keep them happy for 15 minutes but alas that wasn't to be...Jasper just wasn't happy at all so I decided to do what every good mum would do I got my camera and took photos of his temper tantrum to show him when he gets older!!!

It took a good 20 minutes for Jasper to calm down and after offering him a hug for the hundredth time he finally took me up on my offer and sobbed himself to sleep on my shoulder..

I mean seriously if he had just taken the hug when I first offered it to him he could have saved himself a lot of energy and his poor Mumma a lot of under her breath swearing and fist clenching!

My Spunky Guys

I got my little guys dressed up so I get some nice photos of them together, something a bit more 'formal'. It was pretty tricky but in between all the goofing around, the wrestling and falling on top of each other I managed to get a few shots that I really like!

But I must say out of the 60 or so photos that I took the following one is my favourite the look on Jaspers face as he is looking at his big brother as he being a goof ball just makes me melt!

Jasper's Talking

Jasper is the baby of the family, he is such a character and will be turning 3 on Wednesday (I have no idea where the time has gone) Some of the first posts I wrote on this Blog were about my littlest man Jasper. I was having a lot of trouble with him not sleeping, throwing terrible tantrums & not talking or communicating at all. This all started just over a year ago. I saw my early childhood nurse, then our GP and finally our pediatrician who was concerned that Jasper might be on the Autism spectrum. He sent Jasper to be assessed by the childhood assessment team at the hospital who concluded that he was not on the spectrum but that he had significant speech delay. The tantrums and bad behaviour were all because of my little man's frustration in not being able to communicate.

So we started a round of occupational and speech therapy for my little man and now I am also doing a course through the hospital called 'It Takes Two to Talk' and the difference is amazing!!! My little guy is putting 3 and 4 words together and coming up with new words everyday!!! He knows all his sisters names and calls he brother Oli. He asks for squeezes and and kisses and loves offering to help 'I help you?' 

I love listening to him talk, we waited so long to hear his first words and I get so excited when he says something new. The other day he was watching 'The Avengers' (which is his favorite movie at the moment)  and he came out and told us "I watch cool guys" We all jumped of the lounge and started clapping and going crazy telling him how clever he is!! Then he told he was Thor (I Tor) and now his sisters are trying to teach him the names of all the Avengers!

It has definitely been worth all the appointments and long times sitting at the hospital waiting for appointments. I am just wondering how long it's going to take until I start saying "Jasper can you please be quite for 5 minutes!"

Time to Relax...just for a minute

Madelin's party was a huge success, she told me it was her best party ever and all the girls seem to have a great time!! My favourite part was listening to the girls sing to Bruno Mars 'You Can Count On Me' altogether, my neighbour could hear them and we were all very impressed with the harmony. They also had a ball dancing around to Madelin's favourite singer Selena Gomez. Now today is my day off. I'm sitting on the lounge, watching the Discovery Channel and drinking too many cups of tea!! Tomorrow it all starts again. I have two weeks to organise my oldest daughters 16th. This party is going to bigger because its for family and friends and we will having about 60 people attending...I have a plan, now wish me luck :)

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Madelin and her cousin (and BFF) having fun in the photobooth

The Sweet Table full of jelly, cupcakes and chocolates!

The beautiful birthday cake made by my very talented 12 year old daughter Grace. The top was chocolate mud cake and the bottom was her famous butter cake. This was the first time that she covered a cake using fondant and I am super proud of how gorgeous it all turned out!

Handmade Chocolates...these were a huge hit!

These beautiful cupcakes were baked by my beautiful niece Maddison-Rose (who is also Madelins BFF) as a special surprise for the birthday girl. Grace helped her with the icing and decorations

The amazingly popular fairy floss shot (they also came in blue)

Everything came together just how I imagined it would...so happy!!

Rainbow jelly cups with pretty sparkly butterflies

There were lots of squeals when the party boxes were opened, lip glosses, body glitter and jewllery, made for some very happy young ladies.

Madelin is 10

My littlest girl is 10 years old today. I feeling a little sad, all my girls are growing up so quickly, I miss having three little princess that I could dress up and play dollies with. She is a gorgeous girl, she is a little loud, super confident and really, really sweet. I must admit that I am sometimes a little embarrassed by how forward and over the top she can be but people fall in love with her wherever we go but she's ours and we love her to bits! 

The last month I have been buying bits and pieces all in preparation for her party tomorrow. She is having 7 friends from school over for a make-over and pamper party. The sweet table is going to full of jelly, cupcakes and homemade chocolates. I have set up our very own DIY photo booth and got some great props from the $2 shops, I think the girls are going to kick out of that!!!

The menu for lunch is spaghetti bol (Madelins favorite food in the whole wide world:)

Here's a couple of sneak peek pictures of the preparations and I will post the pictures of the party on Monday!!! 

Homemade white chocolates with hundreds and thousands

Colourful homemade chocolates in pinks, mauves, blues, greens and peaches

Party boxes filled with lip gloss, body glitter, note pads, heart magnets, stickers, ring, hairclips and a cute little pen are packed and ready to go. 

All the fun bits and pieces for the photobooth

These are the white chocolate covered Oreos that Madelin took to school today to share with her class

Blue fairy floss shots

The circle bunting I made for the front of the table