THE GREAT EIGHT

Well, Justice turned EIGHT today! EIGHT! Can you believe that?!

For his eighth birthday he had a lego birthday party.

He was allowed to invite eight friends to the lego education centre (in the city centre) for a MIDIEVAL MADNESS birthday bash...

At 2:30 they began with some dancing/ role playing games and then... they were set free on tables and tables of lego
fantasy, castle and knights legos were everywhere...
some of the kids worked together
some found dragons

and some great creations were born!

then the guests got together and built with these GIANT rubber legos

making a throne for the birthday boy...who managed to blow out all of his candles ~ so hopefully his wishes will all come true!

We can not believe that you are already eight!

AFTERNOON TEA

I put together a baby shower for my dear friend Sharona, she is due at the end of the month with her second.

We had an afternoon tea theme, so the favours were tea cups with "welcome home baby" house shaped tea diffusers and the wishing well was a GIANT tea cup.... The only thing bigger were the balloons!

We had a great turn out and a good time playing cheesey baby shower games like "the dirty diaper" game and "bun in the oven". OF COURSE we did the baby socks game - its my favourite! We also had scratchies and prediction cards...

We enjoyed cakes and fruits and juices and conversation - it was a really lovely shower!

GOOD LUCK SHARONA!

BABY BAPTISM

Justice and I were lucky enough to attend the baptism of a friend's gorgeous little baby girl this weekend. She was so sweet throughout the entire ceremony, it was lovely.

We went to their house afterwards for a delicious lunch. I have a great new potato salad recipe if anyone needs it!

Justice Paints

You wouldn't know it, but he has a distinct lack of enthusiasm for art. He did a great job on this Turtle Dreaming poster for his oral presentation on an aboriginal dreaming story.

CONVERSATION ON THE DRIVE HOME FROM SCHOOL

Mom, which do you think is bigger: heaven

or space?

Ummm... I haven't thought about that before. Which do you think is bigger?

Yeah, probably heaven because He could just add more rooms to heaven if He needs to.

Oh, yeah. That makes sense.
He could just make more rooms for people when they get there if they need them.

Maybe you get your own room, or maybe I might be with you.

I hope you are with me. I would miss you.

I don't think you miss people in heaven, you're just happy.

Oh, OK.

****TIME PASSES****
What sort of window do you think God has?

Definitely an arched window.

(What I love is that he has a view of heaven and it is a giant home: JOHN 14:2)

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

GUESS WHICH TALENTED BOY HAS A LEAD IN THE SCHOOL MUSICAL!!!

MY Parenting in question...

Monday night Justice absolutely would not get to sleep. He doesn't often do that, and I have endless respect for parents of kids who won't go to bed. I happily admit, I would lose my mind if that was the case in our house.

Tuesday was the first day back to school after two weeks of school holidays. After about an hour and a half of Justice being awake, filling a water bottle, using the toilet, asking crazy questions, I was ready to crack. I have been SO sick, for what feels like ages... actually, it started on the 18th of June so it has been ages! Anyway, I cough and cough and toss and turn, and I only get five hours sleep on a perfect work night. So I was getting pretty ropeable because I just wanted to go to bed...

AND THEN IT DAWNED ON ME... maybe he was worried about something at school... he has been struggling to come to terms with his dislike for his art teacher, and some nights we have a long talk about that - how we won't like everyone in this life and we have to just get through it...

So FINALLY I asked if something was bothering him. And the answer was "Yes".

BUT I was instructed that I could not say, "That's in the future, you don't have to worry about it right now". Verbatim, those were my instructions. I agreed and then came full disclosure:

"I am worried about when I take chemistry in high school".

Which is when I realised my little boy knows me inside and out. My immediate reaction? "You're seven, what are you worried about that for?!" However, I am proud to say that I refrained from my immediate impulse and instead gave it some careful thought.

I let my son know that I hate science and maths, but I still got a 96 in high school chemistry, and I let him know that we got to mix up things and make them explode. (We also made candy canes at Christmas. I have no love for my high school, but there were definite perks to such a tiny school. In hindsight...)

Anyway, Justice wanted to know if he HAD to take chemistry, and I let him know it depended on what he wanted to do after high school. (He still wants to be a professor of medicine, so he will defnitely have to take chemistry). We then got into a long detailed discussion of university vs TAFE.

And then I am glad to report he went immediately off to bed...

My little man!

And actually, he starts high school in 2015, so maybe he's on to something with this planning ahead thing.