14/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Sorrento Beach sunny afternoon shadows

Maisyn | Free at her favourite place - the beach

Baylin | Loving this walking business 

Joining in with Jodi

13/52

 "A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Fresh new haircut

Maisyn | Found the doctors set at my sisters house... Loves Doc McStuffins! 

Baylin | Easter morning.. tasting chocolate. didn't like it!

Joinging in as always with Jodi

12/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Looking for crocodiles under the pirate ship

Maisyn | My climbing monkey at the park this morning

Baylin | Picked up the tongue trait from my dad - thanks dad! 

Joining in with lovely Jodi  

11/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013" 

Deacon | Enjoying the sunshine

Maisyn | Pretending to be a monster

Baylin | In play zone... Loves sitting at the back door watching the other two and throwing things out the door! 

Joining in with the lovely Jodi

10/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Beach Boy - Cooling off from this heat wave we are having
Maisyn | Deep in thought today at the beach
Baylin | Cracks me up! Oh the life of a one year old!

Joining in with the lovely Jodi

9/52

 "A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Never ending energy.. always moving.

Maisyn | Enjoying a yogurt ice cream treat on a hot day.

Baylin | Not happy mums cooking dinner.. wants cuddles. 

Joining in with Jodi

8/52

 "A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | "Me? Are you talking to me?" Such personality
Maisyn | Happy one...  fun outside on a hot day
Baylin | Grumpy :( not too happy lately. Frustrated with not walking yet and more teeth... bless!

Joining in with the lovely Jodi

7/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Fun at the beach on these stinking hot days we are having. This boy has good muscle legs :)

Maisyn | Took a liking to the giant beanbag pillow I made for work

Baylin | Not a happy munchkin with lots of teeth coming at once :(

Joining in with Jodi

6/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | First day of Kinder... Only a week late due to illness but we made it and he loved it!

Maisy | Wanted to join in the first day photos of course so here she is first day of time without her buddy Deacon

Baylin | Exploring... So much to see and touch in this big world

Joining in with Jodi

5/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Its been a horrible week here hence the very late post... Deacon came down with a bacterial infection on Saturday and came out with a horrible rash. So the first week of kinder was no first week of kinder... At home we have stayed. My hope is that no one else catches it and we are all set to start next week. Not my first experience of kinder I had envisioned but these things are set to try us hey! 

Deacon | Has been a trooper despite what looks like lots of pain

Maisyn | We started gymnastics today which will be an activity for us when Deacon is at kinder... Always upside down this one

Baylin | Not walking just yet but enjoying his walker

Joining in with Jodi

4/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Loved the dinosaur part of the museum - brain went into must see everything overload! 

Maisyn | Peekaboo

Baylin | My little man turned one on Friday and we celebrated with a little party today.. Happy Birthday spunky boy

Joining in with Jodi

3/52

 "A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Total boy - dirty hands and being cheeky! 

Maisyn | One happy girl when riding the vintage horse that has been in my family forver 

Baylin | Pulling a face - always surprising me this one - always changing 

Joining in as usual with Jodi

2/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Deacon | Never staying still - trampoline bouncing

Maisy | Exploring the bush at The Briars park - gaining more little freckles on her nose! 

Baylin | Looking through to see the birds (The Briars Park)

Joining in the the lovely Jodi.

1/52

"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"

Maisy | Completely sums her up... Independent!

Deacon | As usual too busy to look at me.... digging

Baylin | Happy beach baby... who is almost one *sigh*

Joining in for this project with the lovely Jodi. 

Deacons Birthday Video

I have been trying for ages to figure out how to add a video on here. I have made a couple I wanted to share and finally worked it out so here is the first one! This is from Deacons Birthday a few weeks back :)

10 days i would love to erase

Wed 27th June was the start of a week and a half i would love to erase from my memory....

it all started with Deacons asthma flaring up with the onset of a cold / virus. He was so sick he had the shakes and all. It breaks my heart to see them so sick especially when they say things like this "i don't like this mummy...i want it to go away" so sad :(
As much as i try to keep the kids separate when sick it is impossible with 3 kids all so little.
So then its was Maisy and lastly Baylin who all picked up the sickness.
The virus came with vomiting, high temps (i mean HIGH like 40.5), coughs, runny noses, not eating... you name it we had it.
It affected Baylin to most and he was vomiting after every feed and i mean i was changing clothes after every feed he was vomiting that much. He was even worse at night as the horrible cough was keeping him up. In that 10days or so if we got 2hrs sleep in a row or 4 hrs a night total we were doing ok.
We had 2am calls to nurse on call and doctors visits ended with just words of your doing a great job but we cant give them anything just keep pushing on.... I guess its the best option but i just wanted sleep and my babies to be better.
Days at home without leaving were the trend and we were just hoping it would end.

So here we are 10 or so days later and all is a million times better. Deacon and Maisy are back to playing, arguing, loving each other and Baylin is happy to play for more than 5mins like the last 10days. (still not sleeping great but i have had 4hrs in a row now!)
It has been extremely hard but thanks to my husband we made it through. It defiantly has taught me a few lesions though.

1. Enjoy healthy happy kids as much as you can as it can change in a heartbeat.
2. My crazy busy life before the sickness was nothing compared to the sickness and non sleep
3. Work is defiantly taking a back seat as family is way more important
4. I take WAY too much on with the word NO not in my language and that is defiantly something i need to change
5. 3 kids under 4 is way harder than i thought and i need better time management

I finish by sharing some photos of the last few weeks with you (pre and post sickness!)

I hope you have all been well and not suffered this horrible virus too :)

p.s i apologise to people who have been waiting on emails etc... i will try and get back on track this week