Weekly Winners is  brought to you by my garden and my children and of course Sarcastic Mom.

All of the wattle is out.

The roses are budding.

Nothing but a boa.

What do you say, when the kids go to bed I wear this outfit?

Winter dandelion blowers

Almost gone.

The seeds of change.

Gorgeous girls.

Old  Blue.

Ollie’s girl.

It has been an enormous week here and to celebrate it I have my best photos to show you as part of the Weekly Winners meme. If you go on over to Sarcastic Mom’s you can have a peek at the other participants too.

Hospitals are ever moving places of humanity at its best and its worst.

The all seeing safe - t - view.

Keeping busy waiting for surgery.

Two friends, Bok Bok and Red Blood Cell, wait for her return.

Little wooden sculptures within the hospital.

On Saturday we decided to go out to the markets where there were free rides for the children.

Oh merry - go - round.

swinging chairs.

A new bath do.

Beautiful bath boy.

Kiss me.

Bath buddies

Weekly Winners this week is dedicated to my winter weekend. It was spent pottering around home, preparing for our week in the Room of Hell.

Thanks to Sarcastic Mom for this great meme.

Ivy has been so sick that her appetite is virtually non existent.

She will eat strawberries though. Lots of strawberries.

Meet Ollie.

It was freezing outside but that didn’t stop him.

Winter nose, cheeks and lips…brrrrrrrrr.

The boy’s new obsession.

Thomas play.

A well loved friend.

She still managed a little smile for me.

Beautiful even with braces.

Important things that need to come to bed.

Yes, that is a potato, go figure.

Such a boy.

He calls him K -Ted.

Weekly Winners is here again.

I have up on offer for you today…

more pics of the most photographed children in the universe!

Do you feel bored lucky?

Sure you do!

Thanks to Sarcasatic Mom for encouraging my paparazzi skills my capturing of life as we know it.

Also: due to illness some of these photos span over a couple of weeks, just didn’t make the final cut last time.

Beaniegirl.

I had a bit of a play with some brush borders.

Winter boy.

We went to the park but the wind was whipping around us and it was freezing. Noah took refuge in the bus.

Kisses from Dad

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Pensive.

The pre teen boy. Caught. With a smile on its face!

Motherlove.

Winter trees

I’m sure this is what got me into trouble in the first place…

 Winter sun.

This is one of my favourites. I have to admit, I have been sitting on it for a couple of weeks, trying to find a way to put it into a post.

That little green fellow is a giant microbe, modelled on the flu.

We got them from a place called Think Geek.

Another post but I really love stuff like this.

Ivy has a whole lot of them, the common cold, strep, staph, ecoli, red blood cell and his brother the white blood cell.

What can I say? If you don’t keep a sense of humour over all this illness then you really do get a touch of the crazies.

What’s that?

Having giant microbes in the house makes me seem crazier?

Yeah, I know.

Anyway, Ivy loves the flu.

In this photo she was ‘putting the flu to bed’

and I thought that was funny and cute a little bit ironic and way too real.

Sarcastic Mom, Lotus started this meme and now she is giving away prizes  at the end of the year for participation! So, if you were thinking about joining in, now is definitely the time to have a go! (Heidi, I’m talking to you!)

It was the second week of the school holidays. Imogen went away with her BF, Mollie and was missed by everyone. AJ had a sleepover at Luke’s house. That’s not why there are no pictures of him. He just won’t agree to being in the photos, you know? It’s a pre teen, boy thing, I think.  

We had some special friends come and stay with us.

Here are some of the things we did and saw…

Playing with green glitter playdough is serious business…

well, it is until you learn how to roll it into a ball and then it’s hilarious!

We went to the Reptile Park and saw all sorts of creatures.

Oh look! The very rare and beautiful  pink - faced Lily.

A very old friend.

It was all too much for this koala.

The Tasmanian Devil was not amused.

Awwww, the wombat. Always my favourite. A bit like me. Short, chunky and furry.

Ok, so I’m not that furry.

It was a full moon on Thursday evening and we all went for a  late walk.

These horses came right up to us.

Ivy decided that this horse’s name was Moonlight.

Friday was windy and Ivy offered to pose for me.

Winter sisterhood.

This is my absolute fave for the week. Noah will hardly stay still anymore for photos so to catch this rare snuggling moment was a wonderful surprise (and yes, he is wearing lipstick).

Weekly Winners was created by Sarcastic Mom so that we could showcase our best photos for the week.

It was a bit of a slow start. I haven’t picked up the camera for a while because of extreme illness on behalf of my family, sorry, what’s that you say? I can’t hear you for the coughing but we rallied well for Friday and even went for a walk yesterday (yay us).

So here you go, the best from this week (Friday, really).

Winter beauty

On the Friday we finally had a school holiday outing to a train museum…

The pre teen boy, was not amused.

Rustic red.

No. 30… so black and shiny

The small boy was in love.

Look at that face. Sheer awe.

Take your seats.

Not my seat (I wasn’t allowed to sit near a window, the kids thought I might try to stick my head out).

It was all too much for Ivy who decided it would be a good time to get sick.

Lucky she had a willing snuggler.

Mal was in heaven. He roared and rocked so much, he scared all the other passengers away!

Weekly Winners is here again. Hosted by Lotus over at Sarcastic Mom.

Last week was a bust for me so I have enjoyed going through the fortnight’s photos and picking out some faves.

Hope you like them too…

In hospital, you can build tall towers…

have your spleen palpated,

your brother can pretend to visit (secretly he just wants to play with the hospital toys)

sometimes it’s hard to do things with only one hand.

Bright colours help and music helps to get you through the bad days…

When home, there are celebratory lollipops

sunshine and smiles…

happy times just sitting together, swinging your legs.

Driving in cars.

Home just in time to celebrate a special 10 year old

and to receive some birthing day flowers.

Double figures.

I could float away in those eyes.

I will never get over how something so gorgeous came from me.

Sand play

A father and son moment.

Is that my son, drinking and driving?

I think this is my favourite for the fortnight.

A rosey glow.

Time for Weekly Winners. I missed last week because of Ivy illness. So, here is a bumper edition of Genzy goodness!

For more excellent entries, go on over to Sarcastic Mom’s.

Peek - a - boo!

Perpetual motion.

A shopaholic beach fairy lives here

Mad photographer

Evil prednisone child. (More on this later)

My birthing day flowers from  the wonderhusband.

A quiet party.

Happy birthday

mmm…cake

I wonder what they’re thinking…

Best friends

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Sisterhood.

Those heart melting eyes.

They’re in it together, this immune deficiency caper.

Weekend cuddles.

Starstruck go - go girl.

Sunshine Lollipops

Starstruck Finale costume.  Purple is the new black.

Weekly Winners brought to you by Sarcastic Mom.  You should go and look at all the great photos.

I’m limping it in this week.

I haven’t taken many photos at all, opportunity was scarce when confined to the lounge for most of the week.

I did get to go to a photography afternoon yesterday and I learnt more about aperture and ISO and white balance, (oh my!) from the talented Janine Kaye.

It was my mother’s day present from, well, my mother.

The last day of autumn

First sign of a girl getting better…an empty bottle.

Earth angel. The view from Ivy’s bed.

Ivy’s Winter shoe stash…

Oops, forgot a pair. Not that it matters, she will only wear 1 pair at the moment. Can you guess?

Ivy’s favourite shoes. For a girl, who spends alot of time at the hospital, I thought these red, shiny shoes a very appropriate choice.

“There’s NO place like home”.

My Mum.

Oh, my friends, hasn’t this week rocked around quickly? I can barely believe it is Sunday again but here we are ready for another issue of Sarcastic Mom’s Weekly Winners. Hope you go on over and check out all of the wonderful photos.

 Busy hands

Not many boys can pull off pink…

but Noah can.

Dryer fluff.

Clinging to Aunty Kris

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The reluctant model.

Nelson the sook or Puppy love.

Poppy love.

Daddy love.

Caught!

More Daddy love.

This boy loves his trucks.

Oh, yes, he’s a car head!

My fave for this week.

Twin love.