BESTIES!

I have stolen this blog entry from my friend Renee's blog,  she always takes such amazing photos for her blog with her amazing camera and I just had to steal these ones of our boys and cut and paste her entry too.
Thanks Renee for loving my boy with so much of your heart,  you are such an inspiration to me as a person/mum I can trust, respect, love and who I just so enjoy being around! Love ya no number xx!

Renee's Entry below....

I love that one of my besties, Bex has one of the most gorgeous little monkeys on the planet & that Niwa & Mac are also besties :)

Isn't that just the cutest little face!!

Him & Mac get on so well so it's the coolest for them to be able to hang out together & to have Niwa come over to play :)

We loved having you over to play yesterday Niwa 

& can't wait for you to come again!!

Everyone eating frozen peas waiting for the dinner to be ready :)

They were laughing & giggling playing out the back, & when we went to see what was so funny, we found them jumping up & pulling the washing off the line :) What great little helpers! 

Sharing iceblocks :)

The Church Fairy

One of my closest friends Renee below,  has inspired me with her "Church Fairy' Idea for her yummy son Mac,  Niwa's little mate....  (read below for her story and then I will share Niwa's first experience with the 'Church Fairy' last week.

Church has always been a struggle with Mac so even though he's knocking on the door of 5 now!!!, he still doesn't particularly want to be there....& he definitely doesn't want to sit still or whisper :( .....So at our whits end around 6 weeks ago, we introduced the church fairy.

The church fairy watches him at church & keeps an eye on his behaviour in sacrament & then in class, so she can know whether or not she needs to leave a treat in the letterbox for him for when he gets home :) (We always sit in the rec hall & if he's being noisy we point up to the little air vents in the ceiling where she could be spying on him from?!)

He still tries to push the limits & loves to break free to the toilet any chance he can, but he IS doing better :)....And you should've seen his face when he opened the letter box the one week he was a right off & thought he'd still get a treat anyways - talk about devastated lol 

NIWA'S STORY

Every Sunday morning,  Niwa wakes up and  when he figures it is Sunday he throw tantrums about having to go.  It is a bummer as I want to go to my class etc to get uplifted myself but he wants me (not Dad) to come to all his classes with him and he has such 'Puppy Dog' eyes with tears in them if I go to leave so there is no way I can leave him like that.  So last week after reading Renee's blog, I thought I would set out to initiate the 'Church Fairy' Idea as a means to get him to go to Kids Sunday School classes etc without me.  He knows everyone there but is just a Mummy's Boy.  Anyway so we prepared him and he was very excited.  He was amazing during Church and let me go to class which was a total first.  Then I was able to go to my next class and when church was finished, he came running to me so so proud that he had been a big boy and gone to class without me.  When we got home,  I told the kids to go and get changed first before Niwa went to the letter box.  The  photos below are of him looking in the box and then of him unwrapping his pressie around Arama and Terina.

Don't you just love our letter Box,  we are getting our front landscaped next week and a new letter Box is on its way, thank goodness!  I don't know how many times Keith has run over our current one.  LOL

Below:  He opens his treat with his brother and sister looking on  CUTE!  Even the kittens joined in which you can see in some of the photos.

This was so effective week one,  but Mac last week got nothing.  Renee told me just because you have the Church Fairy, it does not always mean it is going to work after the faze has worn off.  Well it is working for us as of day one so for now we will make the most of it!  LOL!

2ND WEEK OF THE HOLIDAYS

Monday of the Second week rolled on and it was a 'Picture Perfect' day!  And nearly the whole of that week was.  We didn't do much in the way of spending money but we were at the park nearly every day and we also had cousins come and stay for sleep overs.  Here are some photos that I pinched off Renee's blog of our day at Onepoto Domain.  We had a lovely picnic and the kids rode their bikes around the track nearly all day,  none of them wanted to leave.  The most special thing was that MacKay learnt to ride his two wheeler bike on that very day,  it was so so cool for him.  So him and Niwa spent the rest of the day riding around and around!   We met up again that week for several Mac and Niwa bike riding trips.  They are both big boys now!


See below,  Big boy Mac on his' two wheeler' , 9th of July,  a day in History!




Our little picnic,  Agnus Roding and family, Aunty Nix and kids and Renee and Kids.  Aunty Nix lemon muffins and her dip that day were so YUM!  I got those two recipes thanks very much!

On another cool note, Niwa lost his little police balance bike so we were looking all around for it for ages and we were almost convinced it was gone for good when we decided to stop & say a prayer. Nix, Niwa, Emil & Renee stood around in a little huddle while I said a prayer that we'd be able to find it & as we finished & opened our eyes, there was Arama walking towards us having just found it!!! It was probably the most instantaneous answer to a prayer that I've ever witnessed. It was awesome :)

SPENCE AND NIWA BELOW JUST AFTER THE PRAYER EXPERIENCE!

THE BIKE BELOW JUST BEEN RETURNED!

NANA AGNUS BELOW

 YUMMY YUMMY BUBBLE GUMMY SPENCY - (below)

I hope Renee doesn't mind but I stole her video of Mac riding his bike with only two wheels  for the first time,  I just think it is so cute.

THE COUSINS ARE HERE!

(Surprise Surprise, we're on the computer)!

NOTHING LIKE HOLIDAY SLEEP OVERS 

WITH THE COUSINS EXCEPT 

THE EARLY MORNING STARTS!  LOL!