The Story Of Us 1

Well love you alway and forever Grandad!
xxxxx

posted by Stephannie @ 7:24 PM 1 Comments

Cooling Off

Yesterday we has one of our first Sydney summer days so we decided to go to the local pool to cool down. Chloe has only been swimming at the pool a few times but she loves it and has a lot of confidence in the water...sometimes too much.
While we were at the pool my sister Vienna and her family also arrived for a swim. Adalia brought her little floaty car which both the girls wanted to use so we solved the problem and put the in together. From looking at where the water comes to on the side of the floaty I don't think that they will be able to share it for very much longer.
The newest member of the family, Malachi, loves the water as much as the girls. He loved floating around and was quite content to stay there all afternoon however when his hands started to go purple his dad had to take him out.
The newest member of the family, Malachi, loves the water as much as the girls. He loved floating around and was quite content to stay there all afternoon however when his hands started to go purple his dad had to take him out.
Whenever our niece Adalia gets excited she shakes. I don't just mean a short little shake. Her whole body, and I mean whole body, shakes for extended periods of time like she is shivering. She has done it since she was young and as she has gotten older it has gotten worse. I must admit that it is quite cute now but I hope for her sake she grows out of it before she gets her first crush on a boy. Anyway at the pool they have a fountain in the baby pool which got her attention from the minute she got there. Vienna eventually let her sit in it and my goodness I don't think I have ever seen a child shake so much, it was like a little spa with the only thing stopping her being the water spray in her face.
It was nice to be able to have a swim when the weather is nice enough to make it enjoyable. We will have to squeeze in as many as we can before we move to Tassie where swimming in anything but an indoor heated pool is classified as an extreme sport.

posted by Stephannie @ 6:51 PM 1 Comments

Off the radar

Well it has been a while since I was last here and there have been a number of reasons for that. These include moving, cleaning, school reports, more cleaning, more moving, life in general and the big one.... no Internet at my sisters where we are living (I have over 100 unread emails in my inbox and who knows how many in my junk mail box). But we are back blogging however sporadically (is that a word) it might be for the next little while.
We are finally out of our home, not that it is ours anymore. Kind of sad but then kind of exciting at the same time. We allowed ourselves two weeks to move all our stuff into the container and for those two weeks it rained pretty much every day making the move all the more pleasurable. I was so worried that the real estate agent would call saying the buyer wanted an inspection while the house was upside down with half packed boxes and Eden's muddy footprints on the cream tiles. Lucky for me I worry about silly things that will never happen. I drove past the house last week for the first time since we moved out and it was funny not being able to go into what had been my home for the last two years. Oh well, time to move on. There are still some rooms I have to take you on a tour of but I will have to do that another time when I have the photos off our computer.
Two Sundays ago we went to the temple for some carols and to see the Christmas lights. Chloe liked the life size nativity especially the sheep so we are figuring she is in for a treat when we move to the country in Tassie. She wasn't to fond of the carols and kept wandering off to play with other peoples prams. We didn't get any good photos as there were lots of people and we were all too tired to be patient. I enjoyed the time just to sit and get into this Christmas spirit. Christmas has kind of taken the backseat this year with the move and everything else. We haven't even done any Christmas shopping yet. Wait I lie, I did buy a present for a baby at mother group last Friday because I had to give it to her last Friday. Oh, I have also bought cards but that does not mean anything as while we were packing we found two years of Christmas cards to family that were all stamped and just waiting for an address...so in past years we weren't snobbing you, we were just not organised. I vow every year to be better organised about Christmas, oh well, maybe next year.

posted by Stephannie @ 12:49 PM 2 Comments