Spence's 6th birthday xxxx

This was me trying to get a photo of my little baby on the last night of him being a 5 year old. As you can see he wasn't very cooperative, but I need to document these special moments cause I know that in a year or two I'll miss this little 5 year old grin, just the way I already miss his gummy little smile from back when he was a baby. Crazy to think that he's grown from that into a giant 6 year old now!!!

He's not too old to still LOVE Georgie though!!! (I don't know if he'll ever grow out of Georgie!!)

I really do feel so forever grateful to be this little monkey's Mumma xxxx

After he went to bed I stayed up late prepping his special lunchbox :)

Spence is still ALL about food so wrapping up some special lunch treaties was an easy way to show him some birthday love ;)

It's probably the last year I can put his photo on the front and write this kind of note though cause he said it was a little bit embarrassing!

Let's get a close up of that precious face x

Birthday pancakes in the morning (even though we had to rush off to work & school!)

Then after school it was off to Xtreme for a round of bowling & a play at 

kidzone with Shy, Blakey & his 3 besties from school (Toby, Chris & Isaac)

Chris

Toby

Chris & Isaac

I managed to convince him to hold his cake off until Monday so we could do a joint one with Grandma Julies 

- which was also our 1st ever vegan sponge! 

Not quite as good as what we're used to, but it totally did the trick so they were happy with that!

April pics

Here are a few random pics off my phone from way back around April....

Every now & then (always when Dad's away!) I have a turn at doing the boy's haircuts :) I don't know why I even bother though cause it's always the BIGGEST drama as you can see below....this was trying to get a pic of the little dog that Spence had brought home from school & had a get a photo of & write a story with - man I hate it when that book comes home haha

One afternoon when I was silly enough to let the boys bring 

a friend home each :p

Mac's birthday message on the mirror

Love those afternoons where they conk out after school (as long as it's not for too long that it screws up bedtime!)

This guy with no gel in his hair

My tyre the day I was reversing out the driveway to work & Ella our old neighbour backed into us!

More afternoon conk outs - I don't know why we had so many that month?!

Spence eating "cookies" (falafels). He'd never really liked them before then, but when he came into the kitchen that afternoon & thought I was making cookies he wanted heaps of them & has loved them ever since. Yusss!

Spence's 1st class pic. I was too cheap to pay for an actual copy so tried to take a quick pic of the one in the classroom but the teacher was there so I felt a bit embarrassed. Oh well at least Spence will still have a very blurry idea of who was in his class in 10 years time haha

Celebration afternoon tea for a certificate or award in assembly. 

I can't remember what it was for though cause it was too long ago now!! 

Doing the Takapuna Beach Easter Egg hunt where you had to run around Taka getting different things signed off

With their little treaty bags at the end of the hunt

I bought some aniseed wheels at the old lolly shop for my treat & 

the boys wanted to try them out

Picnic at the Auckland domain (on our old family picnic blanket which is 

way too small for a family of 8 haha)

Mac with the new scooter he ordered online with all his birthday money 

(turned out to be the best investment EVER with all the use he's got out of it!)

Mac's blurry class photo (I think he was away the day it was taken so don't bother looking for him lol)

Just a regular thing on this kid's legs!

April school holidays at Albany skate park

Sunday arvo walks at Taka beach xxx

School holiday trip to the museum

Sleepover with Miss Ella Bella trying out a fishtail braid

Skate park with Indi

Heading home with the sweatiest kid ever

Mac on his 1st & 2nd to last day of the medication we trialled him on. It turned him into a zombie 
who dragged himself around the ground all day so needless to say we didn't pursue that one any further

And that's a wrap for April! :)