Kids

Isn't is wonderful when you look at your kids or photos of them and your heart just bursts with pride?

Children make you want to start life over.  ~Muhammad Ali

Meeting Oliver

These beautiful photos were taken by the very talented Samantha Burnett. Ollie was only 9 days old and it was hoped that he'd sleep through the photo shoot...well as you can see, he had other ideas and wasn't missing out on seeing  what was going on. 

I love this photo of he and his mummy, Kath. It speaks volumes.

A few weeks ago we went down to Brisbane to meet the newest member of our family, baby Oliver. What a gorgeous little snuggle-bunny he is! It's so easy to fall in love with this beautiful little boy. He's so bright eyed and not keen to miss out on anything that happens. 

Nathan could hardly wait to give Ollie and nurse and a big cuddle. He still tells everyone he's an uncle, but refers to Ollie as his cousin and not his nephew!

  

Meeting Poppy.

 

 Ollie has a musical mobile in his cot and as you can see he loves watching it.

 In these photos Oliver is 3 weeks old. All that hair (yep, as you can see, there's plenty of it!) makes him look older.

Meet my little grandson

Oliver Flynn Kholo Sickmann-Lloyd arrived on Tuesday at 12.37pm and weighing 8lb. Isn't he just beautiful!?

He had a bit of a rough time and spent about 18hrs in a humidicrib and a few days on a drip with antibiotics and in a special care nursery, very hard for new parents. Now  he's  progressing well and I'm sure will not look back.

 And with his Mum and Dad.

We can hardly wait to see our littlest man and Nathan is really looking forward to meeting his nephew.

Exciting News!!

Our second son Craig and his gorgeous partner Kathryn have announced their engagement. We are absolutely with the news. Kath is a very special girl and already very much a member of our family.
Craig's proposal was very romantic...we are so proud of him for going to all the effort that he did.

We love you both very much.

Meet BJ

Martin has a new border collie pup he has named BJ. He's a cute little fella and came all the way from Brisbane. Kath picked him up for me and she and Craig looked after him for a week. He's a very intelligent little bloke but is causing poor Charli a bit of grief at the moment. Charli will get used to having him around and will play with BJ when he thinks no-one is watching..

 Here's BJ with his proud new owner.

I had a lovely Mother's Day and I hope you did too. I received some very special gifts including a beautifully framed family photo and most importantly I had calls from all of my boys.

Nathan chose these lovely flowers at our local grocery store. Aren't they just beautiful?

A Crafty Weekend

During this last weekend, Martin and I did some workshops with Adriaan and Denise Vanderlugt. a very crafty and clever couple. Martin did hebel sculpting (Nathan did it with him) and I did coiled basketry using recycled materials. Not only was it fun to creating with like minded people, socializing and meeting new people was wonderful.
Martin first sculpted a ute and then he did some chain links.

 I created a little coiled pot with a lid and a little oval mat. It's not perfect or straight, but hey that's what practice is for!  The core I have used in these is old plastic bags, but you can also use strips of denim, orange and onion bags, rope...almost anything as long as it doesn't break down. I plan to make some little octopuses for a little baby's room. They are so cute and bright and colourful.

I would really love to do the hebel sculpture but the next workshop is during the week and with school it's too hard to get away, especially as we are already behind. Hopefully next time Adriaan comes I can do it.