My family all grown up!

My oh MY its been a crazy few years!!  here we are just hit January 2013 and my twins will turn 4 soon!! I am so in love with my kids its not funny.. They are such hard work and I struggle from time to time with having time to myself but I know this time is fleeting and soon enough they will be asking for the keys to the car and going out on dates.. and one day leaving home.. so for now I am loving them to bits and enjoying every moment.. I am planning on having a huge year this year with my butterfly business.. I am making Tutus For Girls now and loving it immensely.. I have an employee and am moving onward and upward in the online world studying SEO and all the intense IT stuff that goes along with having a website.. interesting but mind blowingly draining stuff to learn.. All in all a fun year ahead with kids and work.. Assi is great and going so well at work.. we are all so happy and the kids are thriving.. Lior has been cured of ADHD and ODD from supplementation and going down the biomed path and now we are working on healing darling sweet Elijah of Aspergers.. he is going well so far due to gluten and dairy free dieting and treating him for pyroluria.. here are some latest pix of my beautiful tribe :)

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HOW TIME FLIES!!

Wow the kidlets are now 2.5! sooo much has happened since then .. I just came across my blog and though wow how many other things have gotten in the way of this! I would really like to put something up once a month now just for the kids to look at in the future.. so here tis..

Lior is 6, he does swimming, nippers, AFL and is really good at all 3.. He can do the worm and wants to do hip hop classes next year.. The little ones are toilet training.. so far so good.. sophia is much better at it of course and they both love to get stickers as rewards.. Elijah just had his operation to remove his cyst from his eye a week ago.. all went well.. still slightly swollen but can see how he will look without this great huge lump over his eye.. so glad its gone now..

Its getting close to summer, pool and bbqs and xmas!! EEEKK where did this year go?!!!

Sushi Playdate

Today the babes and I went to meet up with Blythe and little Ori for sushi at O'Sushi in Coolangatta. There we were surrounded by 3 high chairs and 3 little people demanding our attention. We still managed to have good conversation in between putting food in mouths and wiping mess and picking up things from the ground. The kids loved another first.. Udon noodles! They were slurpin em back and wanting more! Another great outing and then back home to do some work...

Been a While

well the gorgeous ones are turning one in less than a month! A lot has been going on lately.. new website, shop on etsy getting to the fabulous look I have been wanting for a long time, moving forward in lots of ways with my business.. Assi has been in a new job since September last year and standing tall and strong and proud.. Lior has started big school and loves it.. the bus trips I think are his favourite part of the day and he has started to read books with one sentence per page and really doing well.

Lior and Assi are currently in Israel with the family celebrating Passover. They are having a great time and Im really looking forward to seeing their relationship unfold now after having such a great bonding experience. The house is so much quieter and cleaner without 2 extra people in the house and its so nice having the extra time to bond with the babies and also to catch up on much needed work.

This week is busy with photographing butterflies at a florist for my wedding pix, sushi with a friend, friends bday on Good Friday and the landlord coming to do some much needed repairs. I also look forward to doing my 5km per day on the bike with the babes in the trailer. They are so cute they look like 2 little old people in there and generally fall asleep every time from all the bumping along.

Heres how they look now.. cute as ever!

Its Twin Time

Well the twinnies are now 2mths old.. it has been a rollercoaster of sorts .. emotionally especially.. Im mostly tired and emotionally drained but I do have lots more moments of joy and love for these cute little people.. We have been sleep training for a week now and just when you think theyve got it they cry for hours on end.. and hard to think its gonna ever end..

The bubbas are growing so much but Elijah still feels much smaller and newborn like.. and Miss Sophia is growing rolls on her legs and is so so smiley and cute.. Elijah gives us smiles every day but much more reserved and much more of a fusspot.. He seems to be the one keeping us all awake mostly but Sophia can certainly gives us a run for the money..

Anyway here are some photos of our lil cutie pies

Twins Birth Story

Well I thought I would post my birth story. It was kind of long and drawn out but will make a shorter version.. I was getting quite over being pregnant as I could hardly move with a stomach so large I was measuring 48wks pregnant! I decided to go and get a stretch and sweep of my cervix from Dr Mark. He said I was 1cm dialated and easily stretched it to 2cm. I went to Rebeccas to visit soon after this and started having light contractions.. how exciting! After a few hours of irregular contractions they started being 4-5mins apart.. I called the hospital and they said to come in fairly soon. It all got irregular again and I called the hospital and told them I would wait to see what would happen.. Later that night in frustration I went to see my accupuncturist to see if she could get things moving along better.. It didnt and we ended up sleeping the night with some contractions here and there.. In the morning I was booked in to have a ctg at the hospital and see what was happening.. We arrived at Tweed Hospital at 7am and after the ctg found the bubs were fine and I was having slight contractions. The doc examined me and found me to be 4-5cm! I think they did a little stretch while there as 20mins later I went into labour again and found it to be a bit more intense than the day before.. thank god! this is it.. Raine happened to be just arriving at the hospital to see Luweena, another calm birth attendee.. who had had her baby and was in Tweed. Labour progressed nicely and 3 hours later they examined me.. but I hadnt dialated anymore.. I had a wonderful midwife Steph who explained that the docs would want to get things moving and want to break my waters.. we decided to have a short nap and talk about what to do.. I at this stage wanted them out and was happy to go down this path.. but steph explained not to as bubs were happy and everything was coming along nicely.. We opted to not go down this path so they moved us out of the birthing suite and into a ward room.. We took the opportunity as a night off and enjoyed the room like a hotel room and watched movies and ate chocolate.. and relaxed.. nothing much else happened and we ended up home the next morning.. feeling a bit deflated but ready to rest for a few days and hope things started up again.. After a few days I was feeling quite over it again.. I spoke to steph and she told me she was working a 12 hour shift on the Tuesday (21st april) so booked in to be induced.. By Monday night at 11.30pm I woke up with a punch to my cervix OUCH! then went to the toilet and had a really intense contraction that lastest for what felt like a minute.. I went out and told Assi I think we better pack the car.. then I had diarrhoea and more pain.. We quickly got ready and off we went.. After having 40mins in the car like this.. 1-2min contractions.. I was ready for drugs!! They had to wheel me up to the womens care floor and after vomiting and sucking on the gas for a while the anaethetist arrived to give me my much longed for epidural.. By 2am it was done.. but was very intense during the process.. We all rested for a few hours and the midwives kept checking on me and telling me I was contracting well.. By 4.50am I was 10cm dialated and ready to push.. I was scared for them to turn off the epi so after2 hrs the doc came and told me something had to happen.. Steph then came on her shift so convinced me to turn it half down and add some synto .. after another hour of severe pushing.. out came Elijah.. How AMAZING!! To have that gorgeous boy placed on my chest crying and his face covered in green meconium was the most beautiful thing Ive ever experienced.. I was stunned.. they then waited for the cord to stop pulsating.. I felt some more contractions after a while and so Assi cut the cord and took him so I get his sister out.. I was sooooo scared to push again and was told it wouldnt be as hard.. hmmm well it WAS HARD!! After another hour out came little Sophia all covered in vernix.. SOOOOO happy it was over.. HALLLLELUUUJJJAHHHHH!!!! Thats it.. instant family.. family of five.. no more kids for me.. We have it all now.. our little family..