It's Nearly Christmas

Hi Everyone, I can not believe how quickly Christmas has come around this year! I am in a mad rush going around picking up laybys, didn't realise just how much I had brought so I think I am going to have to take some of it back. Everyday I say that I am going to start wrapping tonight and I never get to it, if I don't start soon it is going to be a nightmare for me lol, with five kids pressies to wrap there is enough for a small army to help with! The kids are getting very excited about it, everyday they see something on the telly that they want to add to their Christmas wish list!

I am trying to desensitise Thomas with Santa, last years pic was horrid cause i had to get in it cause he wouldn't go near him. He has agreed that he will sit on Nikiesha's knee, but I know what he is like and I know we are going to have dramas when we get there.

The girls had a ball on their trip to Tassie with Mum and Dad, they didn't want to come home but were glad to be home if that makes sense and had so much to tell us. They went to Zoo Doo, Cadbury Factory, Hobart Museum, Port Arthur, Cataract Gorge, and Platypus House. We have heaps of photo to scrapbook with about 900 all up LOL!

Jamie has his work breakup this Friday, in Barwon Heads at lunch time, no doubt by the time he gets home at tea time he will be tanked and I will be tucking him into bed for the night. AND i have my breakup the week after LOL! I am having a Girls Night In with Mum, Lauren, Denise, Coral and Tracey....few bottle of wine, nibbles and a girly movie!

For those of you that knew about us considering changing the girls school, we have decided to leave them where they are, the deciding factor was that Corio West doesn't have a music/drama program and when I told Nikiesha she started crying! And plus when I told Jamie that we might have to reconsider moving them he decided to pip up and tell me that he doesn't think we should move them anyway! LOL! MEN! Not once had he said this anytime we had been talking about it. So I went up for a meting with the new principal, who seems really nice, and he made me feel alot better about leaving them there. They found out their teachers yesterday, Nikeisha has Mrs Swan, who she had in Grade one and is her fave teacher out of all of them. Rhiaan has Mr Forsyth, who Nikiesha has had for the last 2 years, which I am very happy about as he and I have spoken quite a bit about the troubles we have with Rhiaan. I have also spoken to the social worker and she is going to work with Rhiaan and try and help her overcome her anxiety, she also sent home allot of information to help Jamie and I know how to deal with her.

Any way I better get on with my day, I have to pick Thomas up for day care at 12:45 and I have loads to do before then. It's Wednesday so Glenn and Amy are coming for tea tonight! Hope you all have a lovely day!

We had Linkin Christened on the weekend, it was a wonderful day, the weather was perfect (well maybe a tad too hot), and our nearest and dearest came to join us in the celebrations. Linkin didn't like the service and cried through the whole thing!! But he was pretty good for the rest of the day.

We got a few nice family shots but Thomas decided that he wasn't having his photo done so our family photo was missing one person.

Little poop head LOL!

His godparents were my Amy, Glenn and Denise, 3 people who are very special to jamie and I who we know love Linkin as much as we do.

I can't believe that Linkin is 2 months already, he is still tiny though, but has such a beautiful personality and the most wonderful smile! Every where we go people comment on how beautiful he is and want to stop and talk about him! Kaylee is so

funny with him, she wans to kiss and cuddle him all the time, but gets a little rough so we have to watch her. Thomas is the same, and he gets really upset when ever any one jokes about keeping him!!!

Nikiesha has had her end of year concert and last night was presentation night. Nikiesha got the Coaches Award, I am so proud of her she loves all things drama and I am trying to nurture that as much as I can.

The girls leave for Tassie next weekend with Mum and Dad, I can't believe how quickly it has come around. They are pretty excited now and I am really hoping it help Rhiaan with her seperation anxiety problem, they have never been away from Jamie and I for this long so it will be a real test for us all!

I have added in some pics of 5 women who are always there to support me, whether it is help with the my never ending pile of washing, or just listening to me about how hard my day has been they are always there for me when I need them......Mum, I could never have asked for a better mother, you are a constant in my life that I could not live with out, I am so lucky to have you....My little sister Lauren, we drive each other nuts sometimes, but I love you to bits, and I know I can trust you to protet my children like they are you own......Amy, the best sister in Law I could ever wish for, you are my best friend and I love that we are so similar!....... Coral, we have known each other for so long but it has only been this year that we have really gotten to know each other, I already know I can turn to you when I need something and you will be there for us all....... Denise, I never would have thought that could have become so close to some one that I met so late in my life, def never thought I would have another Best Friend but that is how I think of you now, you are someone I know I can come to for honest non judgemental advice, I look forward to so many more years of friendship with you!......Tracey, my oldest friend, we have gone through so many things together and I know we will go through alot more, I love you!

Sorry for all the soppyness but I really want to put it out there for all to see that these women mean so much to me and I love you all!

I haven't been getting on here to blog alot, but things are slowly settling down so I will try and do it more often, there are so many things that I could share about my kids, every day is an adventure!

We had Linkin Christened on the weekend, the weather was perfect and we had a great day, he didn't like the service but

Time flies when you having fun!!!

Can you believe that my little man will be 7 weeks tomorrow? I can't!! He is so fantastic, full of smiles all the time, so content to lay and play in his rocker whilst I am dealing with the other four! He is just over 8lb now, and still wearing 0000. He has a bit of a cold at the moment so all snuffly which is horrible as there is so little you can do for them...I have given him some decongestant today so hopefully that will help. We are having him christened next month so getting all that organised now.

Nikiesha had her final calisthenics comp last weekend, they had fun, which is the main thing, now all we have left is her comcert and presentation night and it is over again for another year. I am not sure if she is going back to it next year, she has been all over the place with ehr feeligns about it this year so I have told her she has to have a good think about it over the holidays.

My girls head off on a holiday toTassie next month with my parents. I know they are going to have a ball but I am starting to get nervous about it now...I get ervous enought about something happening to mum and dad while they are away and now I have the fear of something happening to my girls as well....Trying not to think about it too much but it is hard.

Can you believe that christmas is only just around the corner, and then it will be 2009 OMG!!!!I have to go and do some more shopping this afternoon as i need a few more things for the older girls, they are so much harder to buy for now.

At least once a day I have someone comment on how hard it must be with 5 kids, sometime twice a day...for the record I would like to say that it is not that hard at all.....Yes I am tired all the time, don;t have a lot of time for myself, sometimes the only time I spend with my hubby s when we are asleep.....but these thing are eye openers, I appreciate the sleep I do get, enjoy the time I do have for myself and Jamie and I make sure that we make the most of the time we do get together! I think it helps that I am pretty cruisy, noise doens't bother me, I am an Upston and we are all loud! Mess doesn't faze me, if it doesn;t get done it will still be there tomorrow! The only thing I do make sure is clean everynight before I go to bed is the kitchen, can't handle getting up to a messy kitchen! My house is clean but never tidy and that is ok! The only thing I do HATE about have a family of 7 is the washing OMG it NEVER ends!!!!!!

Well better go, Linkin will be awake soon, (and I don't only know this becuase of the time, my bopob just sprung a leak!!!) and I still havent showered!!!!! Hope your all having a wonderful day!!!!

Time Flies

My little monkey doing what he does best.....................sleeping
My Beautiful Family of SEVEN!

When you have 5 kids....I can't believe that Linkin is 4 weeks old today!!!! It has gone so quick, I have been savouring every minute he is awake, I am a bit selfish with cuddle time, I don't like to share it! He is doing fantastic, he hit his birth weight at 2 weeks old, it will be interesting to see how much he has put on when we go again today.

It is still school hols, the kids have been pretty good considering we haven't been able to do alot. We had Jamie's 2 sister and their kids over for lunch on Wednesday then, I took them into town on friday to see the Kung Fu Panda show at the Westfield shopping center and have lunch and tonight the girls are having a friend over for a sleep over, but that is all we have really done so far.

Saturday just gone was a wonderful day, we threw a surprise party for my Nan's 70th! It was fantastic, she had no idea at all so it was a complete success! Everyone had a great day especially her so it was worth all the secrecy!

Here is our beautiful little man... he Loves sleeping in mummy and daddy's bed! And the bottom one is when we were still in hospital, I think with was the wednesday.

A week old already!!!

I can't believe it! Our little man is already over a week old. Linkin was born last Monday (Sept 1st) at 1:53pm weighing 6lb 11oz. We had a uncomplicated c section (except for the fact that they had to have 2 goes at the spinal block cause he couldn't get it in). Jamie and I were both so surprised at how little Linkin was, and how much hair he had! It was so great to finally see him and kiss him!
I have to tell you about the anaesthetist, Jamie and I were still unsure about what we were going to name him and in walks the anaesthetist and he says 'Hi my name in Linkin!" Jamie and I just looked at each other and started laughing, we then explained to him that it was one of the names that we were considering with for the baby...it was like a sign. He came in to see me in recovery and I told him that we had decided on Linkin and he was rapped!!!!
Linkin had a few problems with his blood sugar levels which I was rapped that we managed to get under control by the Tuesday Night. It surprised the Drs so I was really glad that I stuck to my guns and made them give us a chance to do it without the drip. He was discharged from special care on the Wednesday and we came home on Thursday. I kept saying before I went in that I was going to have a holiday, and that I wasn't coming out until they kicked me out, but once in there I missed Jamie and the kids too much, so I couldn't wait to get home and start our life as family of seven!
We had a few rough nights as he settled in but now he is sleeping and feeding fantastically. He is such a quiet baby doesn't cry a lot....yet! LOL! He looks a lot like Jamie, has darker hair than any of the others and more of it too, his lttle face is so tiny that he doesn't really have a hair line it just turns into his eyebrows LOL. He is also long and skinny were all the others have been short and chubby. And omg he has the biggest feet...I should measure them, but I reckon they would easily be 5cm!!!!
So basically he is just perfect and I am in love all over again, I love holding him, he snuggles right in, and can't stop kissing him. I had to take him to the Dr yesterday as he has conjunctivitis that wasn't going away with breast milk and his poor little eye swelled up. They have started to clear up now with the help of drops.
Well I should go cause I could talk about him all day...I will add a pic on here of him tomorrow...Take Care