Easter Preparation

Evidence that my favourite time of year is upon us.....

Big brother love

Nothing really compares to how lovely it is to watch them love each other.

I'm so thankful for big brothers that help care for little sisters!

Home Grown

Who knew such happiness could come from something as simple as home grown vegies......

It makes me feel responsible ;) even though chad does most of the 'hard' stuff and I just water and occassionally prune :) 

These were our 'crops' in October when we first planted them.........

Jazzy trying to 'water' her brother :)

and a couple of months later......

and a few more months later......

Delish!! I love having dinner with our home grown produce and LOVE seeing Jazzy pick a few tomatoes to snack on while she's playing outside.....

Maybe I could be a pioneer after all (just don't ask me to wash all our clothes by hand. That would take FOREVER with a daughter that literally changes her undies every hour or so :)

Ladybug party in the park

I know it would be much easier to have a party at home and NOT have to transport everything to the park, but it's the place our girl loves the most and so the effort in transporting everything including the table, was well worth it :)

Family. Friends. Lollies on tap. Cakes. Sweet food galore. Lovely presents and running around the park. The perfect morning for a girl turning 3. 

Here's a few pics from our morning in the park!

My favourite birthday tradition is that Chad makes the cakes for our kids :) They get so excited over what he comes up with and I love that I don't have to make them ;) It was really cute watching Jazz and Chad browse the computer together until she found the 'perfect' ladybug cake for him to recreate!! 

The look on her face in this picture pretty much sums up her day and her ladybug party in the park!!!

3 years old and an interview

It really is unbelievable how quick time is flying by and suddenly the old adage; "the years roll into one" takes on a new meaning as I look at this little girl who used to be my baby. My angelic happy baby. The baby that made me desperately want another little girl just like her because she was so lovely and calm and peaceful {muahahahaha oh how some things have changed - haha I kid. She is still my little ray of sunshine she's just simultaniously ridding that wave of toddlerhood and tantrums :) but oh how I love and adore her ;).

We had a lovely day on her 'day of days' filled with pom pom balls, kinda-gym, jelly beans and pretend cooking with real flour that lasted for over an hour (and took me almost an hour to clean up :). Usually I would give her playdoh for pretend cooking, but it was her birthday so I let her explore every creative avenue she could think of. And she loved it. Every minute. The hour long clean up was completely worth it :)


Here's a few thoughts on life from the birthday girl in the form of an interview........(black is me, and pink of course is Jamin :)

1. What do you like doing? Going somewhere Where? Um, parks. me like doing cooking and me rove you :)

2. Do you have a best friend? Yes. Braden (said with stars in her eyes :)

3. What do you love about Daddy? He always takes me somewhere. To the video store

4. What do you love doing with Daddy? Swinging on the spiderman swing and um planting plants

5. Do you have a favourite food? Um Sausage hair (this made me laugh because we don't really eat sausages unless we're at a barbeque somewhere and they don't typically have hair on them :).

6. What other food do you like? Um pankcakes

7. Do you have a favourite healthy food (like fruite or something)?  Fruit is a great idea but not right now mummy (hahaha)  um me like drinking soft drink (hhmmm ok maybe we should look at this child's diet :). Anything healthy??  softdrink. That's not healthy. oh. me like pumpkin and avacado.

8. What's your favourite toy: what's your favourite toy mummy - a minion?? well princess toys. me got no princesses though. 

9. What do you like doing with mummy? Making playdoh and me want to go to kindagym

10. What's your favourite colour? Green

11. What's your favouite animal? Me like froggys mum Is that because they're green?  yeah

12. Do you have a favourite movie? Karate kid and nofing else (funny again because she's probably only seen a few minutes of this movie :)

13. What are your talents? Doing balance at gymnastics

14. Do you have any other talents? Doing ballet

15. What do you want to do when you grow up? Take care of Lily (oh so sweet :)

16. What makes you laugh? Lily. nofing else. Rylan

17. What does love mean? About me and you :)

18. What's your favourite dinner? Pasta

19. Do you have any jobs? Ah doing the dishwasher

20. What's your favourite thing to do with our family? Go to park


So there you have it. The world according to Jasmin at 3 years old. I really wish these answers could have captured her intonation and body language as she answered. Most of them had me laughing with the way she replied to them :)

I am blessed to be the mother of this girl and love watching her grow and seeing the person she is becoming. She is strong willed and soft and fiesty and lovely and funny and sweet and all the things a little girl should be. She absolutely loves babies (of any kind :) and generally showers her love on them and mothers them like a pro :)


Above all. She is LOVED and so very adored.

Happy birthday to my girl!!