Helps me keep up with this extremely bright eyed and perky morning person …

Whose latest lego creations have a “mad max” theme going on …

Excuse the dark images, hubby has a hard time using my unsophisticated camera

Happy Birtday Chantelle.  Hope you’re having fun with the rubber stamps. Thought you could use those now that you’re a school teacher. As you can tell I had a wee play around with them firsting making some stickers and die-cuts.

But there’s no denying my second attempt a couple of days later:

Yep, I’m pregnant.

 Xanthe wants a girl, Xavier want’s a boy. Their dad want’s twins gulp. I would just like it potty trained and sleeping through the night when it arrives. And, perhaps, just this once, it might come with a set of instructions?

Fingers crossed!

I wanted to slap him around the ears and tell to stop driving with the palm of his hand or the pads of fingers.

I wanted to yell at him - ten and two and remember the 3 second rule as we drove round town riding the rear-end of every car in front, while his hands barely made contact with the steering wheel.

I wanted to yell chef Gordon Ramsey’s advise at him - grip it and run with it.

Thankfully we made it back to the workshop in once piece. Boys who love cars, aka bogans, never really grow up. Just these days they attend 40th birthday bashes and not 21st anymore, and they still drive with one hand on the wheel.

Anyway, as long as the car is sorted it’s all good. As we’re heading off to ski/snowboard at Wanaka this weekend.

I nearly brought the classic pink style … but I love how funky/rock star looking these sun glasses are. Bigger coverage, and white should suit her skin tone fabulously. And don’t worry, I got them in the smallest size. I brought them from www.babybanz.co.nz. Now don’t anyone tell Jo or Christina.

Photo courtesy and copyright www.babybanz.co.nz I’ll take my own pics when they arrive

I don’t think we’ll be going anywhere today. The kids played and played until they froze, and are now defrosting in front of the fire.

Vote for my man and help him win a trip to an overseas *geek* conference worth up to $10K.It would make my day. Seriously! I’d get the whole bed to myself while he’s away, which means I can sleep all night with the electric blanket on. Plus, I really need some more duty free perfume too, lol.Here’s the link: http://www.itrockstar.co.nz/video/rock-my-world/He’s worth a 5 star rating, dontcha think? Sexy and smart!!And if you’re a blogger (or a booger) leave a comment while you’re on the IT Rockstar website, and you might get some linkage lurve.

My Baltic amber teething necklaces and anklets were featured on Celebrity Baby Blog. I am so thrilled. Feel fee to jump on over and have look, you can even leave a comment too. Here’s the link:

http://celebrity-babies.com/2009/03/25/chook-mook-amber-teething-necklace/

They are running a promotion, but you have to go read their feature to find out the discount coupon code. Perfect if you or someone you know has a wee one whose teething at the moment, or as a baby shower gift.

And a big *thanks* to Stephanie at CBB.

I’ve finally updated/refreshed/revivied and gone live with a new ChookMook website. I think I may have developed a hump in my back from hunching over my laptop while I hankered down and coded a new website running zencart. I love wordpress, but I just needed some inventory management and discount coupon codes, and blah blah blah. Go and have a wee nosey. Now I just need to create, create, create …. more, more, more.

And for those not on facebook here’s a wee sneak peek at my 10th wedding anniversay pressie…

Oh, forgot to mention. Had the dog castrated on Friday. I feel like the biggest.meanie.ever. He still seems shell-shocked. I on the other hand have the major guilts, being the one who dropped him off and picked him up from the vets.

This was followed by an afternoon at Aramoana Beach, playing with the dog, digging in the sand, swimming in the ocean, and creating beach art. Xanthe and I sculpted a mermaid from seaweed and shells, Aaron sketched a Taniwha in the sand, and Xavier and the dog dug holes while running around in circles.

Then we finished up our day with home made pizza’s by Aaron. We’ve been largely dairy free for yonks now, so it was nice to have a little cheese again.

Valentines day was not even a remote thought for us today … just lots of fun family time. Although, yesterday myself and my darling husband went back under the gun and got tats for our 10th wedding anniversary.

Hope you’re all enjoying your weekend. Our kids are tucked up into bed and we’re going to watch a movie.