So after my eldest decided that Wonderpets was more important that greeting her mum in the morning, the hubby set out to make some pancakes for breakfast – vegan pancakes. I’m not vegan, but Cameron suffers from eczema and we are cutting out eggs and dairy for a little while to see if it gets better. The only saving grace to vegan pancakes is bacon (I will never be vegan). Unfortunately we found out that there was no bacon in the fridge. I had eaten it earlier that week.

So vegan pancakes with… fried up left-over ham. After the addition of ham, banana and maple syrup, it wasn’t too bad in the end.

Then hubby gave me a box of scrumptious chocolates. He however had forgotten that chocolates have dairy in them.

Arr me hearty

Cameron's new past time

Love to my crazy little family xxx

Happy Mothers Day!

When I let her play with the cake after her brother’s first birthday, she rearranged the wheels onto the rabbit and said “Four wheels on rabbit!”

It's like a whole new mini cake

Here’s the cake before we cut into it (I modelled it from a soft toy):

Cameron's Carrot Car Cake

She’s currently into painting. Today she drew lots of cute little circles. Inevitably her paintings end up looking like grey slush (I really must stop her from going too far!)

The pretty painting before everything got smudged together

The other day while I was hanging out the washing, Abby stole one of the pegs, and next thing piped “See! An ‘A’ for you!” And sure  enough, she had constructed the letter A out of two cabbage tree leaves and the peg. I know I am biased, but, wow – I think that’s pretty smart for a two year old!

A is for Amazing Abby

My friend told me she saw it on his page, so I posted on his wall telling him where the design came from, and how honoured I was for it to be shared by him.  He said it was a “great design” and was good enough to add a link to my cafepress shop on his post – yay, some credit at last. What a great guy. Thanks George!

Now if only I could sell 18,000 shirts…

• Actually sold a decent amount of Rainbow Shuffle shirts.
• Spent my first day without Cameron – 6 hours at an overlocking course.
• Started making more of an effort to get the kids to playgroup and music group.
• Kids both caught colds.
• Went to Palmerston North for Easter.
• Caught the kids’ cold the day before going to Palmerston North.
• Cameron teething again, and starting to walk and talk.
• Abby caught some sort of tummy bug – high temperatures, vomiting, diarhoea. Not nice.
• Abby’s new trick is picking her nose with her toe while sitting on the potty.

Abby in a Ford V8 truck

Cameron loves horses

For some reason (possibly since someone posted it on reddit) there’s been an explosion of reblogging/reposting of my image in the last few weeks.

There’s been a dig at it on 9gag where they think the “Unicorn butt scoot is too mainstream“, and someone has even made an animated version of the Rainbow Shuffle on YouTube. This is apart from probably hundreds of reposts, because you know what the Internet is like…

It’s not so bad as at least I know people love it and feel it’s worth sharing. And I’ve had a few Rainbow Shuffle shirt sales, thanks to the person who posted a link to the source on the reddit post.

I feel more violated than the carpet

But it’s not so good when people don’t credit the source though – and even worse, when people are trying to make money off all your hard work by putting the image on shirts and such and claiming it as their own! Breach of copyright anyone? GRRR! I’ve already had to deal with a few copycats (most were straight copies of my image, and someone attempted to change it a little in an effort to pass it off as an original idea), but I’ve discovered more today, and there will be more in future no doubt.

Is that the fate of a meme (if this is in fact one)? Boo.

Anyway, if you want a shirt for yourself, just visit my Eggshell Green Shop on Cafepress.

Lucky for us, we have a north-facing backyard and lounge, so even when we’re cooped inside, if it’s sunny then at least it’s warm during the day. Lucky for Cameron, it was warm the other day and he got to have an iceblock (”Yum, yum, yum!”) with Grandma. So very cute, and nevermind the table manners!

Yes, that's a safety gate on the wine rack

Sorry to spoil the fun son – I’ll be spoiling the fun for many years to come so you may as well get used to it now.

Wipe that smirk off your face boy

I blame it on my lack of sleep, for which Cameron is to blame as he kept me up from 1:45am to 4:45am last night. (The little tyrant decided that 7 hours was enough sleep and it was time to wake up and play.)

Luckily the rice had already cooked or I would’ve been extra peeved off as it was dinner time and I had mouths to feed!

Cooked my rice cooker

Cameron likes to push and chase things

Cameron is now 8 months old. In this past week, he has cut his third tooth, started crawling and even pulling himself up on things!

Ooh what's up here then

Uh oh here comes Cameron

Judging by how fast he’s picked up things, I suspect Cameron will be walking by the time he’s a year old…

(Below is a video of Abby crawling at 8 months. She commando crawled, without using much of her legs, up until she was 12 months old before taking her first steps.)

Just when you think things are going to get easier, they become mobile – yikes!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Future partners in crime