Holiday Update

We had two restful weeks off work from Christmas day on. We stayed at home during that time and stayed inside most of the time because it rained so much. I'm sure everyone has seen photos of the flood that is happening here at the moment. we are not affected at all although Nick can't get to work as it is across the river. Otherwise we wouldn't know it is going on as we have had 2 days of lovely weather. Below are some of the photos taken since Christmas.

Inside picnic! While it has been raining the whole time it has also still been hot and very muggy.

Kaisha & Reuben at Ikea. I have been organising! Once I get it all sorted I will post some photos.

Redcliffe lagoon on one of the few sunny days. Unfortunately most other people had the same idea.
Anna & Kaisha

Melissa & Kaisha

Laura, Kaisha & Anna swimming

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! We spent the evening at Beth and David's having a BBQ. I made it til 10:30 before I broke up the party and was home tucked up in bed before midnight. I guess I'm allowed being pregnant! And what a great start to the new year, Kaisha slept til 8:30am this morning which is the latest she has ever slept. Of course its helped by the fact that it is raining here yet again.

Kaisha and Delta eating dinner together. These two are going to be the best of friends.

Sparklers - not quite sure.

Loving it!

Mesmerized

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a fun filled day. We got to rediscover the joy of Christmas again this year as Kaisha is finally old enough to understand about Santa. She was so excited to discover when she woke up that the biscuits were eaten, the coke was drunk and there were only a few bits of carrot left on the deck. And boy did she enjoy opening presents, and helping everyone else to open theirs too. We had a lovely brunch at Anna and Laura's and then desert later.

The tree, all decked out.

Good morning, look what Santa brought! (I couldn't find Kaisha's gorgeous Santa sack that Aunty Jen made her - I'm hoping that it will turn up in my big clean out over the next 2 weeks)

The favourite toy - party blowers

Yum Chocolate! (like father like daughter)

Dolls Clothes - we gave Kaisha a bunch of her prem clothes as dolls clothes. I can't believe she was ever that small!

Fairy plates and cups - Thank you Grandma & Grandpa

Pretending to be grumpy but struggling when surrounded by presents.

A doll's cot, this gets moved to wherever she is in the house and goes right beside her bed at night. We get told "shhh dolly is asleep" regularly.

Playing Barbies - ok I admit it, I kept playing with it when she went on to the next thing.

Southbank Lunch

Last week I met Royal & Ellen Stewart and their daughter'in'law Bethany in at South Bank for lunch. It was a stinking hot day and Kaisha and I got there a bit early so she had a wee swim. We were planning on more swimming after lunch but a massive storm came thru so we sat and watched the lightening instead. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get any photos of them which was a bit silly! I made a break for it when it stopped raining and made it to the car park only to drive out into the end of the world. There was water everywhere and scary wind gusts and lightening/thunder. Was quite the experience but we made it home safe.

There is a really neat kids water park that comes on every half hour and squirts water all over the place. Beware unsuspecting parents.

My Birthday

I had my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately I came down sick and spent the day in bed with a fever. Two weeks later my throat is still not quite right. Not so much fun but Kaisha completely enjoyed the day. She decorated a cake for me and blew out my candles and opened my presents. Nick took her down to the shops the night before and she picked out a present at crazy clarks a discount store. She was allowed to pick anything she wanted and I was expecting to get a toy of some kind. Instead I got the biggest box of chocolates she could find and a card with balloons on it. Very cute! The only pictures we have is of the cake which we did early in the morning before I started feeling rotten.

Kingscliffe Weekend

We spent the weekend in Kingscliffe which is a little beach town in Northern NSW just below the gold coast. We stayed with Justin, Louise, Reuben and Zeke in a 3 bedroom townhouse that was bigger and nicer than our house! By complete coincidence David, Beth, Beau and Delta were staying 2 minutes down the road which was great. Saturday Louise and I wandered the farmers markets while the dads and kids played on the beach. They then went for a swim in the heated pool followed by a lazy afternoon reading while the kids slept off all the excitement. The condon's joined us for dinner. A fun weekend!

Our house
















Drawing


Cheeessseee!

Were going to the Beach!

We are going away this weekend. Yay! I'm so excited! Even tho it probably won't be that restful what with having a 2 year old that doesn't sleep that well, I'm looking forward to the change. Walks on the beach, building sandcastles and drinking hot chocolate at seaside cafe's.