Picture my weekend-hoarders toy edition

So this past weekend I took on the daunting task of fixing up a certain little someone’s room and play area, I am still tired , I swear…

I just think this picture shows so much independence, Mr, doing dishes
HOARDERS TOY EDITION!!! moved everything into the TV room so I wouldn’t be tempted to give up
On the plus side all the packing gave rise to this idea, the latest, OH!Boy product, window toy bags 🙂
Things were separated, like all his musical instruments and dress up stuff found a home in this beautiful basket
– which I may or may not have acquired by telling my mom it didn’t fit in with her decor
Starting a reading nook;  a poof and books is all you really need, oh and a crocodile in a cape
His own little crafts table 🙂
I have no real direction with all these cars and things, so they just got shoved in what used to be a makeshift ball pit
Oh look cows in our street, seriously don’t know what’s been up with this lately, goats, cows, donkeys, sheeeesh
We have a new rule since mommy had to stay up till three in the morning sorting out toys…
You can’t play with a new set of toys until the old set has been packed away
– oh and tip: you see that blue fold up laundry basket in the back ground, you can pick one up for a steal and
kiddo can use it to practice his/her aim without you forking out a lot of money and it folds into a toy bag 🙂
Aidan seems to think he has all new toys now, he is sooooooooooo chuffed keeps thanking me for his big boy toys
even though he has owned most of these things for a while now.
I let him give away some toys himself and he was quite happy to do it, as long as no one touches his “play dough stuff”
These are his “play dough stuff” I had to make quite a big bag to house it all
he LOVES it, makes monsters and food and he has even got the hang of the extruder thing
you know the one you put dough into and squeeze shapes out
I had no idea how many cookie cutters and shapes and things we had, JOH!
That’s the extruder I mean, his favourite thing to do is make dough come out really skinny and call it monster hair
His love for play dough has caused more than one session of watching YouTube videos of people making fake
food with play dough, this is an ACTUAL THING! grown people making food out of play dough on camera
 I stumbled across it when searching for play dough set ideas and now
it’s all, “watch play dough foodies mommy PLEAAAAAASE”  
Okay so maybe I was inspired a little
Look mommy made a Minnie Mouse, oh sidebar every time we see a clip of Minnie Mouse, Aidan asks where Daisy is
Definitely roots for the underdog this kid 

My weekend in pictures

I have not done this in a while, so here goes, my weekend in pics :
Note,the order is out a little

Sunday I took Aidan to play at spur, we got the make your own waffle special
at R22 it is a steal, half a waffle with toppings kids can put on…
He decorated, I ate. The diet starts today…
My lovely friend Jill who runs Gifts&Goodies with me celebrated her kids’ birthday
how cute are Madison and Levi
LOVE THE THEME
My little lone ranger got a haircut 🙂
PARTY TIME
This was later filled with bubbles and Aidan would not get in because it is not bath time
love the bouncy toys
Aidan prefers smaller crowds
He was a little more social at the Family reunion later the day
A tech break
After Sundays waffles we went to the park, with Taylor and her mom
What is even happening in the reunion pic
Oh and yes we can sleep through a haircut

Picture my life…

Haven’t done one of these random pictures of my life posts in a while… so here goes 🙂
HAVE A GOOD YOUTH DAY SA FRIENDS…EVERY ONE ELSE HAVE A GOOD DAY DAY
Aidy and Zoey (God daughter)
Caleb showing off my latest Oh!Boy product, bowtie dummy clips 🙂
My little assistant
caleb giving me that…..aahhh you’re so embarrassing,look
My poor heart with this monkey
Aidan was in isolation because they did not know what was wrong with him…….so blessed he is okay 🙂

A color run weekend

Aidan is really dedicated to his role as a male sleeping beauty I always teased that he could sleep anywhere but now watching him do it, with people running around, with color and glitter flying everywhere and music blasting …. I have no words.

He had fun though, I just think the wait for our wave was a little long for him, so next time we will be closer to the front. Once he woke up he really did get into it and I’m glad I took precautions  regarding doing a color run with a toddler.

He was in his stroller most of the time,  he wore sunglasses to protect his eyes and I got him to cover his mouth with a snood when we went through the color zones (spelling colour like this hurts my head) – This was an awesome idea it turns out as I saw a couple of mom’s having to clean faces and eyes and dealing with “it’s in my mouth mommy”

Will definitely do it again next year, I think he might have been a little overwhelmed (shame he is but 25 months old) he kept saying, look mommy funny hats, look funny clothes and so on and for the rest of the time he just watched the goings on, a little stunned, he told me later , lots of colours mommy, red and blue colours colours, so I know it was great for him.

It was even better for my niece Kirsten (4) who LOVES purple, as in LOVES! At the purple station she nearly lost her mind, rolling around and covering herself in colour, she reminded me of the scene in Despicable Me where the little one says

Anyway for those who don’t follow me on INSTAGRAM , FACEBOOK or TWITTER  these crazy dirty pictures would be new, for those who do, I did include some new ones 🙂

The wait at the start was a little long for him
At the start, look at us all clean and stuff

Years in the purple dessert did not get our travelers down
The glamorous after shot, hahahaha, sexy sexy 
Barney rejects
The starting line
 He drinks his juice like people are not throwing coloured cornstarch all over us
But hey if you can sleep through it you can drink through it
Not sleeping just camera shy
Cleaner days…How retro is my little man
Like a BOSS hehehe (they throw colours at me I just adjust my glasses,like it ain’t no thing
My cousin’s Kay-lynn and Caz-lynn auditioning as smurfs
Kirsten LOVES purple, “look at all the purple,so much purple”, she says
My aunt Mercia just came as a spectator, but her daughters, the lynn’s, decided she needed to be colourfull
they look like extras in Annie….It’s a hard knock life…
These curly haired children are in need of some spit and polish, hehehe
My aunt is the only one who looks like a person here! attack of the technicolour zombies!!!!

You know I shoot people, right

Since I’ve revived my photo business a little I thought I’d share a couple of my favourite shots, the rest can be found at MY BUTTERFLY LENS…. For those who did not know about this blog way back when when I launched , I started my butterfly lens after my son died, I take pictures of kids because I feel that even without death the life span of a “kid” is so short one minute they are building sandcastles and the next they are on the phone with their friends and want nothing to do with you, hehe I just think it’s important to note these changes through photography…