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| The two boys |
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!
With one more day left until the family returns to normal life after the Christmas holidays, it's high time for a mega blog update.
Firstly, Christmas day was just fantastic. Linc and Carter are now old enough to really enjoy ripping the wrapping off presents and surrounding themselves in their new toys - yeah, okay with a bit of squabbling thrown in for good measure, but that's what brothers do, right?! Christmas morning was spent with all of the grandparents (Dad's stayed the night in the van, while Mum's popped over mid-morning) and unwrapping the copious amount of presents (see photo!). Popular presents included the Thomas table, the remote control Thomas, the Cars laptop and a bunch of Peppa Pig DVDs (both kids love Peppa Pig!)...
Then it was off to Aunty Kate's house for lunch before coming home for a well earned rest at around 5.30pm. Carter had a quick sleep and it was dinner and then bed (although Carter took two hours to settle, so he didn't go to sleep until 9.30pm!).
We had a lovely BBQ on Boxing day where Uncle Tim joined us also. A very enjoyable couple of days.
Haven't really done much else, as we have just enjoyed pottering about the house (and completely rearranging the lounge room), and going to the shops a few hundred times to do not much else but window shop...although I think a brand new fridge purchase is on the agenda for tomorrow! Oh, and we're onto our sixth Christmas fish (a Paradise Fish, and even he is looking unwell), but the less said about that debacle the better...
The family had a lovely day at Lake Burleigh Griffin yesterday and met up with Nan and Grandad. The mist artwork was a hit, as was the stainless steel shape sculpture!
Last night the family headed down to the lake (again) to see the 9pm fireworks - Both boys were frightened at first, but Linc soon got over that (to a point), and Squidge didn't really like them at all.
Carter continues to grow into a very different person to Linc. He has almost no fear and his latest trick is to climb up the slide on his own...not the ladder, but the slide... the kid has no fear, and hence keeps bashing his head as he falls off/over things... He's really started to understand a lot more things that we're talking about and will run over to the fridge as soon as we ask him if he wants some cheese. And he definitely knows what 'NO' means!
Linc still needs to have a day time sleep, but often doesn't becoming quite grumpy at the end of the evening - he gets a real attitude about him, which is kind of funny, but kind of infuriating.
It's been a very mild first month of summer, which is good in some ways, but let's hope it warms up for our four nights at Kiama at the end of this month!
Firstly, Christmas day was just fantastic. Linc and Carter are now old enough to really enjoy ripping the wrapping off presents and surrounding themselves in their new toys - yeah, okay with a bit of squabbling thrown in for good measure, but that's what brothers do, right?! Christmas morning was spent with all of the grandparents (Dad's stayed the night in the van, while Mum's popped over mid-morning) and unwrapping the copious amount of presents (see photo!). Popular presents included the Thomas table, the remote control Thomas, the Cars laptop and a bunch of Peppa Pig DVDs (both kids love Peppa Pig!)...
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| Santa had a great deal of difficulty getting these through the non-existent chimney! |
Then it was off to Aunty Kate's house for lunch before coming home for a well earned rest at around 5.30pm. Carter had a quick sleep and it was dinner and then bed (although Carter took two hours to settle, so he didn't go to sleep until 9.30pm!).
We had a lovely BBQ on Boxing day where Uncle Tim joined us also. A very enjoyable couple of days.
Haven't really done much else, as we have just enjoyed pottering about the house (and completely rearranging the lounge room), and going to the shops a few hundred times to do not much else but window shop...although I think a brand new fridge purchase is on the agenda for tomorrow! Oh, and we're onto our sixth Christmas fish (a Paradise Fish, and even he is looking unwell), but the less said about that debacle the better...
The family had a lovely day at Lake Burleigh Griffin yesterday and met up with Nan and Grandad. The mist artwork was a hit, as was the stainless steel shape sculpture!
Last night the family headed down to the lake (again) to see the 9pm fireworks - Both boys were frightened at first, but Linc soon got over that (to a point), and Squidge didn't really like them at all.
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| Happy New Year! |
Carter continues to grow into a very different person to Linc. He has almost no fear and his latest trick is to climb up the slide on his own...not the ladder, but the slide... the kid has no fear, and hence keeps bashing his head as he falls off/over things... He's really started to understand a lot more things that we're talking about and will run over to the fridge as soon as we ask him if he wants some cheese. And he definitely knows what 'NO' means!
Linc still needs to have a day time sleep, but often doesn't becoming quite grumpy at the end of the evening - he gets a real attitude about him, which is kind of funny, but kind of infuriating.
It's been a very mild first month of summer, which is good in some ways, but let's hope it warms up for our four nights at Kiama at the end of this month!
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