So this weekend we visited BAYWORLD in Port Elizabeth as part of Kirsten’s birthday celebrations…she had a Dora the Explorer theme so her mom took her and her cousins (which includes Aidan) on an “adventure” to the BayWorld where she could “find Nemo” at the aquarium, “travel back in time” at the museum and “touch a real live snake” at the snake park.
Then we had a picnic at Happy Valley  where the kids could find their favourite cartoon characters while taking a walk… and they even had time to build sand castles. The kids LOVED it! happy birthday again little one 🙂

– On a less fun note, Aidan got sick last night, we couldn’t get his fever down and he refused to be out of my arms for a second. We took him to the emergency room (better safe than sorry) and this being his first time in the emergency room, and with our history I was very close to tears. But he proceeded to be a cute bubbly happy little kid. The nurse even said he was one of the best behaved little ones, letting them do tests while he just merrily investigated all around him. He even said the word Doctor to our surprise and thanked the nurses while waving bye. He is much better today, thank goodness 🙂

Our little brainiac, I know you shouldn’t label kids but this one is a smarty pants, not a label, an observation…you know Kirsten the vocal one year old from this post

She wouldn’t let anyone eat her face, hahaha. Reminds me of a story a friend told me that once at a party someone had a 3d Barney cake and when the mom cut into it the birthday child cried rivers because mom stabbed Barney

Aidan and my brother who he LOVES

Look who is all brave and holding a snake

I love the silliness that is this picture 🙂

Aidan might be a dentist one day, only thing he seemed to care about at dinosaur display was the teeth…Here he is showing his teeth with his dad

Aidan was the first one out of everyone to touch the snake…could be what spurred everyone on to do the same

More big teeth

What would an outing be without Aidan randomly laying down

My sister, Anthea, with a snake and family in background

Allister getting up close and personal with the snake

Aidan was sooooo excited to see the minions at Happy Valley

My little sand crab, this child and sand, I will never get it, he carries sand in his pockets people just because

Picnic time

Aidan’s favourite at the moment, Toothless from “How to train your dragon” Also known as teethies in our house…told you he has a slight teeth obsession

I missed out on a spiritual weekend away 🙁 but was determined to connect with myself none the less…. so my weekend was filled with family,fun and rediscovering me…..

I had a much deserved brunch date with my friend Monica, she has a way of reminding me of God’s devine purpose in my life while making me laugh like a high school girl (we forgot to take a selfie, but took pictures of our crazy delicious coffee…hers is a champagne latte and mine a death by chocolate)

Saturday was spent eating (let’s call it a reward for weight I lost,hehe) we took Aidan to Spur, the moment the waitress arrived he asked for “chippies pease” she wasn’t quite sure what to make of this confident one year old ordering off a menu…hahaha

The afternoon was spent with the women in my family having high tea at the Boardwalk hotel….so much yummy!
Had a blast laughing at comments like: “this place makes me feel like I’m either Sofia the first or I’m in a Barbie movie” and regarding an attractive chef “my compliments to the chef, oh the food was nice too” also apparently pistachios are pretentious nuts and my cousins have no problem “going out for a breath of fresh air”  and turning it into an impromptu photo shoot…me not so much. I stayed inside with a camomile and lavender tea…so much good!

Yesterday I photographed a third birthday party … well that’s me

Have an amazing week all 🙂

I woke up thinking it was Sunday, so you can only imagine the disappointment I felt!!!
WHAAAT how is it Monday, didn’t we just do the Monday thing?
Here are a few pictures of what we got up to the weekend, I don’t have much because my laptop, cellphone and tablet are all working together to make me insane…PS. I’m in a much better mood than last week.

Aidan had his first school event! A BigWalk followed by a Picnic

All laced up and ready to go, Aidan is very chuffed with his first pair of running shoes (thanx Ma Helen) He kept showing people his shhush (shoes)

Walking with Ma Angie, you would never say I had to carry him 50% of the time

Not the most flattering picture of me, but love that you can see how much fun we were having

LOVE this picture, one of the teachers sent it to me, they just warm your heart these two

On Sunday we went to the Jeffries Bay to celebrate my brother’s birthday…

 Aidan loves the sand, roll in it, push face in it, love!!! water? not so much.
PS. I’m so body boarding at some point this summer, really miss it and don’t see why I can’t just because I’m not comfy in a bikini anymore…

What you can’t see in this picture is the fact that he just ate a mouth full of sand when I had my head turned…

Aidan with his mother and Godmother

And I bought him a fedora because it is just so stinking cute! oh and to protect him from the sun and whatever

It’s practically weekend again and I have not even loaded last weekends pics…so here goes (I was off for a week so these pictures are more than a weekend) NO time line, and in NO order, just how the blogger app on my phone arranged it 😉

We did an impromptu beach walk… The wind went up my jump suit and made my hips look giant, still love this pic though

Kamryn had her 6th birthday

Aidan was the thorn amongst the roses

they had whistles so he didn’t care

He went bonkers at the Kids Expo (it’s like his little body couldn’t contain his joy) that’s his happy dance

He helped me make wrapping paper for birthday gifts, he got a little crazy wit the paint after a while

Rob and I got tattoos, Rob’s is dog tags with our son’s names on… under Logan he has his Army force number and under Aidan his police force number

I got fake lashes 🙂

I got a Mani pedi too…. that’s an odd view of my hand I go to BEAUTY WITH A DIFFERENCE because Anestasia rocks, she did my eyes too

We took Aidan to one of those warehouse stores (Makro) and her kept wanting to run away running is his sign of excitement

We celebrated my cousin Nathan’s 21st birthday This kid is going places for sure

Taylor modelled in a fashion show showing off Eastern inspired garments  she was awesome

This is where she modelled

Aidan doesn’t see why he can’t use the walking ring any more

Ended weekend off with these lovely people, it was Salama’s birthday you know Sal from HERE

I LOVE this picture, pity about the creepy one eye photo bomb