Closeup Friday

Fun on the Farm!

My baby is turning into a little boy! It's been hard the past year and a half but man its definitely all worth it!

The new dance move- we've been watching "So you think you can dance" and Mr Jaime has been picking up some tips..seriously!

Everything in the house is now something to climb in, climb on, jump on, jump off, carry around..absolutely NO FEAR!

Check how much he has grown! I should actually take monthly pics next to this door ;-)



Check his knees! LOL

Do you guys think he has put on weight? I'm to scared to weigh him! So now I'm going on pictures LOL

The challenge begins

Now that Jaime has started to stick to a "routine" per say ie he is eating breakfast lunch and dinner, with snacks in between, plus 3 bottles of formula and limited gagging, vomiting and the usual fussing I complain about, I think its about time I focus on me - a little at least ;-)

So here is the plan aka the challenge. Ive joined a new group of runners. These girls train at 5 in the morning, they train every day, me well I'm doing 3 days a week. My 3 days a weeks consist of Tues 6km run with leg workout, Thurs 8km hill run and Sat 8km fast run. I am intending to include a 5km on the Friday but for now its just in the plan for the future...

Now health wise...mmmm..... the HUGEST challenge! Now to me food is my comfort, my best friend, my soul mate! Its there when I'm happy, when I'm sad, when I'm stressed, when I'm relaxed its just always there and its always just so dam good. So how mentally do you stop or change your perception towards it? Well anyway I need to get over this obsession and just gain some control. So after reading Beths blog and checking her 8 pack Ive decided I'm going start clean eating. I've done weight watches before, which worked well so I'll integrate the two and see how we go.

So here is to the new Jaime, the new me and the new Ili (ha ha he doesn't know it but he's gonna eat clean too hee haaawww hee haaa)! Bye bye beeg bum bye bye

Clean Green

Finally I found a product I can use on Jaime that is organic, hypoallegenic, herbal and all Green! And one for Laura, its made in the USA.

Geez SA seriously needs to get up to speed with the rest of the world with regards to going green!

Sports injuries

My brave boy sporting his very first graze

What is it?

What is it with toddlers that the minute they turn 1 they cant leave you alone? I mean even for a second! Lately I cant even go potty without the assistance of my toddler, I mean whats he gonna do, help me push?

Ah the joys of being a mom!

The Rhino and Lion nature reserve

The kids have been begging me forever and a day, to take them on a trip, 'a trip anywhere" they say! So I decided Friday was the day and off we went to the Rhino and Lion nature reserve just North of Johannesburg.

It took us just over an hour to get there (lol it was quicker to get there than to organise everyone together and into the car to leave ha ha ha), but what a nice surprise when we got there. The place is huge!

Its filled with a huge range of wild life including lions, rhinos (you don't say) buck, wildebeest, warthogs, wild dogs, vultures, reptiles, crocodiles etc

The boys (Micheal and Jaime) all reved up in the back seat

Jaime, Monica and myself got to go inside the white Tiger cub cage and play a little. Jaime was in his element screaming "wow wow" we of course correcting him after each stage "no no my boy kitty cat" not technically correct either but hey

The kids - Jardim's and Duarte's

Jaime being escorted by his big cuzzies Michael and Monica - with these two guys around I really don't need to stress Jaime is really well looked after. Thanks guys!

Laura next time you guys in SA, we taking Robby ...you can come too ;-)