This Week

It's been one of those weeks. Stuart, Aston and Zachariah have been sick, all with different symptoms so we are not sure if they all had one weird virus or a few different ones. As a result I 'worked' from home on my 2 work days and while I did get some work done I felt mostly unproductive and guilty.

To add to our already disrupted and unwell week, Aston gave us a fright by waking in the early hours of Wednesday morning with an allergic reaction. Not anaphylactic, praise God, but still quite scary (complicated by the fact that we had no antihistamines in the house). I watched him sleep with his epipen by my side just in case.

Here is what is face looked like once the sun came up and after we'd applied steroid cream. It was worse in the night and his lips were swollen. We think it may have been a reaction to eggplant. As you can see he was still in good spirits.

Today everyone seems to be recovering so hopefully next week will see a return to normality (whatever that is)!

 

 

Brothers at 6 months!

August 2009: Aston 6 months old, 8.8kg, 63cm

 

February 2012: Zachariah 6 months old, 7.9kg, 66cm

The New Church

Over the last few months Aston has been fascinated by the story of Barneys. It started when he heard me mention to a neighbour that the church had burnt down. 

 

He watched the latest video update of the progress of the new building and was inspired to compose his own song about 'The New Church'

 

 

 

Roommates

It's 630pm and my two little boys are fast asleep. In the same room! 

In the last month or so we decided to take advantage of the various sleep disruptions over the holidays and move Zachariah into Aston's room. I didn't think they would go to sleep so easily though.

They shared a room at Nana's over Christmas and didn't bother each other too much. I think Zach enjoyed the extra room in the portacot, he's been a bit unsettled and harder to put to sleep in his bassinet since we got home. Tonight I wrapped him, put him the portacot in his new room and he went to sleep all by himself.

Aston has been a nightmare lately, he's dropped his daytime sleep but gets so tired and cranky in the afternoon. Today he had an early bath and dinner and was in bed by 545! Hopefully he won't wake up too early in the morning and both boys sleep well through the night.

Washing Baskets

Me: 1978

Aston: 2009

Zachariah: 2011

Christmas House of Ginger

One of our Advent activities is to make a gingerbread house, or 'ginger' as Aston calls it (I think he is just too lazy to finish the phrase).

I had a moment of wondering if I could bake my own gingerbread but decided it was too much work and bought a kit from Coles with everything included. Unfortunately the lollies which look nice and colourful don't taste very nice. 

I shall put more photos on Facebook for those of you who want to see it from all angles! 

Advent 2011

Last year we followed the countdown to Jesus' birthday with our new advent calendar. This year it's out again, the plan is to read a portion of the Christmas story from the bible and do a Christmasy activity each day. To fit with my disorganization and in an effort to stay flexible I've made a list of activities to chose from each day.  

So far we've just managed to add pieces to our felt nativity scene to build a stable.

Stay tuned for more advent fun!