A Day of Tennis and Seriously Cute Little Girls.

Gwilym serves up a winner...
Tomos serves up a winner.
Gwilym slices a winner.
Tomos smashes a winner.
Matilda May has a big smile for Pennie.
Abigail Rose loves David's Spag Bol.

Colour in my Garden - March 2007

My creation, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

A week ago I was planning to take photos of succulents for my monthly mosiac... a last resort for me... but when I spent the time looking around the garden today I came up with 16 photos, not bad for Autumn when Sydney doesn't really have an Autumn!!
(I may have to resort to succulents next month and yes I can hear my DM Rosie and DS2 Gwilym shaking their heads wondering why succulents aren't my favourite as they are theirs LOL.)

Everybody's Home - All fourteen of us.

Everybody's Home - All fourteen of us., originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran is in my Top Ten Most Wanted List, not many of my friends have heard of him but Emily and Gwilym bought tickets for the four of us to go and see him doing stand up comedy at the Enmore Theatre last night... he was absolutely fantastic! He covers all sorts of areas but one that stuck in my mind was his description of Mothers with little children and how their brain goes mushy... just as if their brain was a bucket of hot chips put on the beach with lots of seagulls taking little pieces of it till it's all gone with questions like... 'Does God have nipples?' and 'What do they call the spaces between the things that stick up in a comb". I remember it was exactly like this when my four were little LOL 'Who is God's Mother and Father?' was one of the questions I was asked. Great fun... Thanks Em and Gwil

They're Here...

Abigail Rose headed straight for the Kids Kitchen and got into cooking some pasta.
Jackson Harry couldn't wait to give Matilda May a cuddle and kiss.
Charlie Ripley was mesmerized by Tom's singing.
Matilda May sleeping through all the noise.
Abigail Rose in her new Hi5 hat taking an important phone call.

Charlie's Excited!

Charlie in the Boot #2, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Charlie thought the boot of my car was a very funny place to be while
Nerys and I fitted Abigail's car seat next to Matilda's capsule in readiness for an early morning start to the Airport.
We just had an iChat with all four of them from Hong Kong Airport, they fly out in one hour.
Only one more sleep.

Uh Oh!!

Someone made a mistake...
...they don't fly in till Monday morning 8am :-((
So... two more sleeps AGAIN!

Just testing...

Jackson & Charlie, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Both Jackson and Charlie made a beeline for the Kids Kitchen when they arrived from Swimming this morning, Jackson is having a sleep over all by himself tonight, he rang me especially to ask me earlier this morning and what a help he's been... we had his favourite vegetable Broccoli, he broke off all the little trees, he put them in the dish, he put the lid on, he put it in the microwave, he pressed the right button five times, he pressed start... he rushed back when he heard the dings and opened the microwave but he didnt' take the hot dish out... Pennie did that. Jack also helped with the rest of the meal... how have I managed with out him I wonder.
Only two more sleeps.

Jackson and Abigail's Kitchen

Jackson and Abigail's Kitchen, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Only three more sleeps....

Meet Countess Bertha

Countess Bertha came to us via a cutting from David's mothers garden many years ago... today she just burst into many blooms, I picked them all because she won't last long but we always enjoy her while we can.

Triangle Quilts.

I had no idea I'd made so many Triangle Quilts till I decided to make this mosiac.

75 Years Old...

The Sydney Harbour Bridge is 75 years old, we all walked on it when it turned 50 way back in 1982, it rained on us, it shined on us, Briony found a one cent coin, it was a lot of fun but the Walk wasn't as well organized then as it was yesterday because they allowed people living North of the Harbour to walk South and those South of the Harbour walked North so a human traffic jam happened somewhere near half way, I had to hold Gwilym up and out of the squash, David had to put Briony on his shoulders then Nerys and Tom had to just hang on to us... Helicopters filmed us from overhead, everyone was in a happy mood if a little concerned... it was scary but fun.
Nerys, Tim, Jackson and Charlie walked it in the Morning and Briony and Joon walked in the evening while speaking on the phone to Tom and Emma in Hong Kong
Nerys 10yrs, Tomos 9yrs, Briony 6yrs and Gwilym aged one.

Gwilym & Emily's Engagement Party

Gwilym & Emily, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Today we celebrated the Engagement of Gwilym and Emily... twice... for Brunch we had about 50 family members, then for Afternoon Tea we had about 50 friends. Speeches were kept to a minimum but this one from one of Emma's old school friends needs noting... it was writen on a card that said 'Life is Weird'.

To my Dearest Em & Gwil,
Finding the love of your life at 19 is pretty weird. hanging onto that person (inspite of crazy jobs, crazy exes and crazy partying)... that's even weirder.
Travelling the world with that person and not wanting to rip their head off somewhere along the way... That's extremely weird.
And pulling off a Paris proposal withOUT it being even remotely cheesy... well that's the weirdest thing of all!
But somehow when I think of all the above in relation to you guys, it's not weird. It's just COMPLETELY AWESOME.
Happy Engagement, I love you both. Em xxx

Preparations for Engagement Party.

Gwilym and Emily are celebrating their Engagement tomorrow, we have a Family Brunch for 50 at 10am then 50 Friends for Afternoon Tea with a Big Red Bus Trip thrown in... Here Gwil, Em and Nerys are making Strawberry Baskets.

Making the Baskets...

Sampling the left overs

Cane Pram

Cane Pram #1, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

I bought this old cane dolls pram from the 'Junksmiths' in Surrey Hills way back in 1971 for 50 cents, it had already had a lot of love and continued to have much more while our girls were young. Down from the Loft it came to have a through overhaul in the Turramurra Bus Workshop, enjoying a complete lube and paint job. In the meantime I was busy in the Quilt Workshop making a new mattress, pillow, sheets, blanket and little quilt... all ready and waiting for Abigail's favourite doll.

What the???

What the???, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Up into the Loft I went and dug around for little girl toys that Nerys and Briony used to play with, our home is so full of little boy things and with Abigail Rose and Matilda May arriving in 10 days time I thought it would be good to balance the toys a bit.
The Lorikeets were fascinated in the old dolls furniture, they didn't sit on it though :-)

Our dear little Girls are coming...

We can't wait... our dear little English Girls are coming to stay with us for one whole month and in only two weeks time. We will meet our little Tilly May, who is now 2 months old and see our beautiful Abigail Rose once again, it's been 12 months since we got to touch and feel our English Family but we do get to see and chat to them regularly via iChat.

A Song for me... by my Dad :-)

PENNIE JANE COMES HOME
(To be sung to the tune of "Inky Pinky Parlez Vous")

Oh, Pennie Jane came home to-day
Hoo-ray, Hoo -ray,

Oh, Pennie Jane came home to-day
Hoo-ray, Hooray !

But Pennie has to go back again
Boo-Hoo, Boo,Hoo!

But Pennie has to go back again
Despite the storm and the rain
Inky Pinky Parlez-vous - BOO HOO!

Dadparip.

Emergency

Emergency, originally uploaded by Pennie David.

Middle of Night - Extreme Pain - Doctor - Pethedine - Gall Stones - Soft Fluids Only - Another Doctor - Antibiotics - More Pain - Emergency - Faces of many Nations - Many Doctors - No Veins for Cannula - Many Pricks - Many Hours Waiting - More Pricks - Cannula In - X-Ray - Back to Emergency - Bruising - Admitted Ward 2A - Turning Yellow - 48 Hours Nil By Mouth - Many Nurses - Morphine - Dozing - Sweating Hot - Freezing Cold - Much More Waiting - Worried Family - Worried Parents - Worried Siblings - Worried Friends - Fluids Only - Many Doctors - More Morphine - Beeping Drip Machine - Apple Juice - Third Night - Drip out - Yellow & Green Jelly - Waiting - Waiting - Waiting - More Doctors - Home - Minus 5kg.