Seeing green

Today a friend gave us a huge bag of veggies. There were some Spanish onions, snap peas and around two kilos of green peas inside. I already had a lot of different peas in the fridge so I decided to shell, blanch and freeze the green peas. Mr Happy and I sat out under the pergola and shelled away while our little princess played on the slippery dip, well for most of the time. It seems that shelling peas is a tad more interesting than climbing up the slide and going down it!! Chasing peas across the tiles, well that's fun! Mr Happy was intent on finding which pod had the most peas inside, most had around eight. Actually I was surprised he stayed so focus for such a long time.

I never seem organised enough to plant the peas but in the end it's great as I get given so many by friends who do all the hard work : )  Now what to do with them?

Precious Days

From this to

this in 365 very fast and precious days

I am loving every second, living in the moment and appreciating every day we have as a family.

The giggles, tickles, laughter, tears and tantrums.

I could never of imagined how well we have all connected around this one little lady.

We celebrated this birthday with an impromptu party with some lovely friends the weekend of her birthday,

and then on the day we chilled at home,

eating all sorts of yummies and doing things the birthday girl loves.

Obviously her U-tan cake looked like the real deal because she tried to play with it!!

I made a hummingbird cake this time, it was really lovely but quite heavy, none the less she didn't complain. Actually she screamed because I wouldn't give her seconds! It was really sweet watching her slowly eat her cake with a cake fork, unlike the others who gobbled it down in seconds using their fingers.

A dragon for a dragon!

This fierce less dragon was hand knitted by the ever so lovely Sarah.

We've all taken quite a strong liking to this gorgeous creature but the other dragon, 

well the two of them aren't on speaking terms yet, I'd say it's only a matter of time though because tell me 'how couldn't you love it?'

Thank you Sarah,

Actually we are still trying to come up with a name for her!

All of our stuffed toys are named after the person who gave them to us,

it's something we've done since Miss Sunshine was born to get used to hearing western names

on a regular basis.

The problem is we already have a Sarah!

Any suggestions?