Sunday Snapshot

It's been a busy week and there's lots from our family to blog but I've got a little post started with that stuff but it's slow going getting blogging time lately so here and now, in a little snapshot, our week was filled with joy and sorrow.

On Monday night Mary C from our church (who I posted about way back here) went to be with her Lord.  She longed for the day she could stand in Heaven, free from her health problems, free from the embarrassment that her memory loss caused her, free from this earth.  Her funeral is tomorrow and her family would value your prayers as they grieve their loss and rejoice that she is now home, healed and with her Lord.

Then on Friday something wonderful happened.  My sweet friend Stuss had a little baby boy!

JMac is a BIG BROTHER!

He's a little bit proud of his little brother... who is also a JMac so I'm not sure what to do about that one...

He's just so sweet and tiny and cute and I can't wait for a cuddle.

I cannot believe it's Sunday night and I haven't managed to visit him yet.  Stuss gets out of hospital as quick as possible (and it sounds like it was a good idea when the other mother in the room was on her phone all night!) and we had a church event on yesterday and today was a busy write off and I WANT TO SEE HIM!

So, praise God with us for little-J's safe arrival. And that I get to visit him really soon.

Fast Fun!

Coffee

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Mini Muffins

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Bikes

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Cute Friends

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Beautiful Weather

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FUN

FUN

FUN



We went to the traffic training park this morning. Once upon a time it had traffic lights, road signs, proper road markings... the works. Now it is just the roads and the markings are dodgy white spray paint but it didn't matter to these three boys. We had a great time, it was overcast and cool (compared to our weather lately) and Aunty Cool and I sat (with Monkey) and drank coffee while J-Mac, Lion and Dragon peddled themselves silly. On the way home Lion told me "It was a good idea to take us to the bike road park, it wearded me out a lot". I told him I thought it was a good idea too, especially if it wore him out. "Yeah, I was riding so fast and so much that I woreded my leg out and now I just have to walk". It was also kinda cool that it's next to the main Ambo station so there was an ambulance leaving every few minutes with sirens blaring.

Oh, and those muffins... YUMMY! Butterless, eggless, milkless, deliciousness... NEVER expected that. Does anyone else find that whenever they say they'll bake something for an event or a gathering that you are always missing at LEAST one of those things??? No, just me?? okay.

Sunday School Picnic '09

What's more exciting than a Sunday School Picnic??? SKIPPING YOUR NAP to go to the Sunday School Picnic!!!!!!!!

There was racing and cream-buns and friends and lollyman and sitting in the shade and pesky Cockatoos... what a day!

We turned up and ate lunch and chilled (parents, not kids, they just ran wild from the start) ate our first helping of cream-buns and then the races started. For the pre-school kids it was a simple running race. With the simple organising of the kids being a shamozzle Aunty Cool and I decided that standing at the opposite end to give the kids something to aim for would probably be best... but we couldn't hear anything from that end so when kids started running towards us we started cheering! Turns out it was a false start...

But look at my boys go! (both in black "security" shirts) So we sent them back for the real race...

They didn't quite sweep the field this time which upset Lion a little and I'm not sure Dragon's concentration held long enough to cross the finish line the second time but they had fun and got a chocolate and a lollipop for their "trouble".

Then some other races... I didn't think it was such a good idea to go in the adults three legged race and I was told "but L went in it" by Wolf... L is also pregnant, 10 weeks behind me... "L is not having her baby in 4 weeks" was my reply.

The father and son (code for parent and child of any description) wheelbarrow race... Wolf and Lion went in that one AND WON!!! They may have bent the rules slightly with Wolf holding Lion by the hips and Lion's hands barely hitting the ground. They ran two races because there were so many people and the winners of the second heat copied the McTavish winning form.

Wolf was then in the tug-of-war for the first round... until they realised that it was incredibly uneven because they were doing guys vs girls and so they kicked half the guys off the rope (he's 4th from the back).

It was coming back to sit down after this that I felt bits of bark hitting me on the head and shoulders... WHAT???? I figured it was one of the kids in the trees but when I got back to my seat and looked up to see who it was I saw this pesky little guy...

Can you see him??? Right in the middle of the picture... it's a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo! It was destroying the branch and throwing bark down on anyone underneath.

All the games and races finished.... BRING ON THE LOLLY MAN!!!!! Dragon needs some serious help with his coordination! He kept grabbing and grabbing but missing any of the gazillion lollies sewn on Uncool's clothes. Even once he stopped running it took three or four grabs to get one! I think he was too frenzied at the thought of Uncool covered in lollies that he couldn't see straight.

Dragon decided it was time for a second helping of cream-bun and went and helped himself! J-mac's grandma had organised them so he thought she was pretty top stuff!

The day almost over, nap time well and truly skipped, dosed up on sugar of many different descriptions the tears were bound to happen... someone told poor Dragon to go away and he was a bit sensitive so the tears were flowing...

Can you tell that Mummy is trying to keep the cream bun and any remnants that may be still attached to Dragon WELL away from her while still offering sympathy and cuddles?

Soon we went to head home and found we had been parked in... I considered leaning on the car breathing heavily and screaming to Wolf that he needed to hurry because I was in labor in the hope it would bring out the owner of one of the three cars responsible but decided that just trying to find the owner of the car with it's windows down would be easiest since they had likely not gone far. They were on the basketball court nearby and came and moved their car and we trundled home with our tired, hyped up boys to pass the time until we could reasonably put them into bed for the night.

A real life friend...

Hmm... yes... I do have some of those... and one has started blogging too... problem is her son has a diffent name in her blog... it doesnt take that much to confuse me... there is a good chance that J-Mac may get called Ralph occasionally... and Aunty Cool will possibly be called Queen Stuss... I wait with baited breath to find out what UnCool (yeah, I still havent figured out a name for him) will be called... we did consider calling him UnCool when Lion started calling Aunty Cool "Aunty Cool".... I think it was something about respect for adults and stuff that decided us against it... I think he probably didnt really like the idea either... but he was in a different country...

sleep...

time...

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g'night.

Green Day

Yesterday was Green Day at playgroup. As in Red Day, Blue Day, Yellow Day.... although some may have misinterpreted the theme...
That's right, those McTavish boys along with JMac went along as the boys from Green Day. Before I get horrible comments about putting eye makeup on 3 and 1 year old boys let me tell you that Lion wanted it on! And what Lion has Dragon wants so he got some too. I had to put it on with my finger so I didnt poke their eyes out so it looks a little more like black eyes but that's okay.

JMac has the serious rock star post sorted out.

Two of the sPunks had their own personal photo shoot before leaving home.

Lion was pretty pleased with his transformation.

Even Rock Stars need to do the dishes.


"Wilbie" whose mummy faithfully keeps up with the McTavish clan blogs, all decked out in green.
The GREEN food.

Notice it's a McTavish boy that is practically climbing onto the table to be closer to the food.

Little Bear comes to play

Aunty K has had to go back to work but Little Bear doesnt have a full time place at day care so we are sharing her with grandma on wednesdays! She had so much fun! They trashed the lounge room and play room and all Dragon wanted to do was be with her but she got a bit tired of that after a few minutes. I think he was playing "wombats" or something with her, he would crawl up to her and put his head down and ram her. or if she was sitting down he would lie down in her lap and look up at her until she hit him hard enough to make him think that it was a bad idea. They did have a great time!
Later in the afternoon we went to the aquarium with JMac. They had a ball. there were baby turtles and big fish and little fish and in between size fish and more fish and sharks and big turtles and lots and lots of exciting things!!!

just a couple of photos, it was hard to keep track of all the kids!!!