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April Has Been Tough

 

Things kinda fell apart this month. I blame it on never getting around to doing my monthly goals and plans. Besides being busy with Kieran's birthday, as well as my week hosting on Write.Click.Scrapbook, the munchkin boy is teething. And in his usual way he's working on multiple teeth at a time. Two pre-molars are now out, and at least two canines are on the way. There hasn't been much sleeping going on around here, leaving me capable of only doing the bare minimum! I also flaked on Week in the Life after two days, but I plan to start again on Monday.

I have great plans for May though. I think I'll be back on track with our regular routines and rhythms, and I won't make the mistake again of not writing down my plan for the month. I'm amazed at what a difference it makes in how focused I am.

Tomorrow though, is National Scrapbooking Day and I am hoping to get some time to play! I plan to hang out at Studio Calico when I can. Are any of you scrappers doing anything special?

Birthday Party Sneak Peek

I'm still busy going through all the photos and editing, but here's a quick look at the main event yesterday.

   

The Birthday Boy with his cake

A little help from Papa to blow out the candle!

This week is all about trying to get caught up, and getting back into our regular routine. Yes that does include blogging more, I know I've been scarce around here lately! I also plan to attack Ali's Week in the Life Project starting tomorrow (since I totally forgot about it till a couple hours after we'd been up), so that will add a bit of an extra element to things. Did any of you do it last week? if so link me up if you have any posts or photos online so I can pick your brains!

Once all the birthday photos are ready I'll do a post dedicated to just that. I also need to do a One Year Old post about Kieran before the month is out. On that note I better sign out for now!

 

Birthday Party Prep

 

Last week was all about the scrapbooking and blogging over on Write.Click.Scrapbook. This week I am deep in preparations for Kieran's birthday party which will be on Sunday. I have made lists and I have a plan, now it's time to execute! For now it's crafty doings, I think the food prep won't start until Friday. I'm pretty excited! I just hope that I can make my vision a reality. I promise, I won't go totally overboard!

Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

I could blog about all the new layouts I've done recently.

I would blog about Kieran's latest milestone, except I haven't even written up the list yet.

I should blog about my goals and plans for April seeing that it is past the middle of the month.

Instead I will blog about our first picnic of the year on Sunday! It was gorgeous out so we headed to the park.

Kieran went there by tricycle of course

 

Pushed by Mummy this time

 

He really enjoyed the sandwiches

 

Like really!

  

He was totally entranced by a couple of kids climbing a tree nearby

 

Don't worry sweetie, your day will come!

And very excited to find Mummy again, even though she kept pointing that black thing in his face

 

No, this way Papa! Mummy's over there!

 

We had a lovely afternoon. It's awesome that the hugest park in Lyon is just a 15 minute walk away!

Photos to Blog to Page

I did a scrapbook page from Kieran's birthday a mere two days after the event. That's history making right there people.

 

Of course the impetus was my hosting week over on Write.Click.Scrapbook. Have you stopped by? Lots of sweet baby layouts and other projects to be seen!

Happy Birthday Kieran!!!

  

I can't believe our baby boy is one year old! His party is in a couple weeks, but yesterday we celebrated just us three. The day started out with birthday pancakes

 

Followed by gift opening

 


 

In the afternoon we took the new bike for a spin

  

Then there was cake!

 

 

Finally some sweet gooey kisses

 

For the strong of heart you can see even more photos from the day in my flickr photostream.

And speaking of babies, I am blogging all week long over on Write.Click.Scrapbook about Baby's First Year! Join me as I show how I captured the first 12 months of Kieran's life.

A Day of Firsts

Yesterday Kieran did or experienced a few things for the first time!

For his snack yesterday he had strawberries for the first time! As you can see he devoured them with gusto. He loves fruits, and I am anxiously awaiting berry season as I think he will really enjoy them all.

I've also been trying to teach him to clap, and finally it happened yesterday. For some reason though he only does it while lying on the changing table.

Finally, as he was playing and I was scrapping yesterday I kept hearing a "clink clink" noise coming from his direction. When I looked up I realised that he was sitting on the floor with his stacking ring toy (thanks Steph for the name!) and studiously putting one wooden ring on and off again several times in a row. 

Who knows what could be next? Maybe he will walk by Sunday?

Two Scrappy Things

The April Gallery: Connections is up at Write.Click.Scrapbook. I loved the theme because it allowed me to do a page about my One Little Word for 2010

The photo and journaling came from the post I did back in January. That's one of the reasons I love blogging, I can always find fodder for my scrapbook pages! Head over to the blog to check out the rest of the collective's work!

Celeste Smith asked me to contribute a page for an article she has in the current issue of Ellaments: Free Photo Fun. 

Check it out to find out how I printed the wallet sized photos, and also get lots of other great ideas on free tools you can use the get the most from your digital photos.

It's rainy and gloomy here today so we are staying close to home and I am working on crossing stuff off my to do list. Here's hoping the weekend is bright and sunny!

What Do You Love?

Easter Weekend

We had a lovely Easter weekend (Paques, as it is known in France) with some of my mother-in-law's extended family.

There was an Easter egg hunt of course

 
The trees were in bloom and the sun was out

Balloons were blown up

Kieran had fun riding the bus

  

There was cake

Towers were constructed (and destroyed)

Kieran tried the slide at the playground for the first time

and practised his walking

It was a wonderful, but tiring weekend! Today we are trying to get back to our regular routine. How did you spend your Easter?