First Week at Daycare

It's been an exciting (for Amelia)/anxious (for me) first week at daycare. After a rather sleepless weekend due to the cutting of a first tooth, Amelia was quite curious and happy after her first hours play at daycare. The second day didn't go so well. She was having a great time and even let me put her to sleep there, but after waking (and while I was in the Kindy room with William), was unfortunately bitten on the cheek by one of the other babies. Unlike Amelia, this kid had quite a few teeth! She was a little upset, but seemed to recover quickly (she's a little toughie!) and was soon playing on the floor again. I guess these things happen, but it better not happen again!! She spent a good few hours there again today and had a great day, showing all the other babies how to shove as much food as possible into your mouth all at once! I felt a little lost though and can't wait to start a project which will keep me occupied until I go back to work - likely tiling the kitchen next week. Photo is William and Amelia's latest favourite game - hide and seek under the bean bag!

Australia Day

It was a couple of weeks ago now, but we spent Australia Day at our friends Tiffany & Sam's having a barbeque. After that we came back to play with the neighbours in the street. A slippery slide was created from plastic, washing up liquid and water and the kids had a brilliant time being thrown down it.

And She Crawls...

For the first time last night, real crawling. No more of this bum shuffling, Amelia was determind to cause severe damage to my feet so she was on a mission to get a weapon. With nothing holding her back she raced across the floor to pick up my torch (I'd already taken it away from her once) and start bashing, Good leg action and strength, both knees and arms all going independently.

Dark Damp Days

The sun is shining again in Brisbane after many dark, damp days. The floods have been terrible and there are thousands of volunteers daily helping clean up the muddy streets and houses affected. The Aussies really do rally together when the going gets tough. Check out this link to see which bits of Brisbane got badly hit
http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics/qld-floods/beforeafter.htm
Life is slowly returning to normal, although groceries are in short supply. We all went to the beach at Redcliffe (lagoon) on Saturday which was great fun and good to get out into the sunshine.

Wet-stralia

I thought at this period of the year, I'd be sitting here writing about how we've just had (another) wonderful perfectly sunny blue sky day, around 31 degrees, sitting around the pool, playing with the kids and sipping away on a Jim Beam and Coke.

Nope.

Not today. It must be the 150th day in a row now (bar one or two) where its rained. The prime of summer and I've just had to and put a sweat shirt on to keep warm.

Getting Hotter and Wetter

We're all a little stir-crazy at the moment. It's been raining for about a week, with another week of rain predicted for next week. Its all rather soggy outside and I'm running out of entertaining things to do with William on the inside (as you can see!). On the "new acheivements" front, William is sleeping without a nappy now and has been for a few weeks.

Amelia is now sitting by herself and rolling over (but not back again yet). In this picture, she is modelling an outfit from Uncle Tony & Auntie Arlene - isn't she cute? So many outfits....so little time!!

We are also very close to finishing decorating the lounge - we bought a dining room table and some new curtains, which has given the room a whole new feel. Just need to put up some pictures and it'll be looking quite homely. We are almost ready for Christmas - we have the tree up, presents bought and cards (almost) in the post!
William is waiting for it to snow so that Santa can come and land on the roof in his sleigh.......I fear he will be waiting a long time.

It's All Happening Here!

In the past couple of weeks, William has started riding his "new" bike which has pedals (see video clip) and Amelia has started reaching out to grab toys and has slept through from 7pm to 6.30am once (we're hoping for a second night). We can't keep William off his bike now and are trying to convince him not to ride it in the house (as we've recently painted the walls!). Amelia is fitting into the street well and loves being passed around all the neighbours. Though I think she is quite put out that she can't run around with all the kids!