Hi to everyone who reads my blog. Or read my last post in august last year. I don't blame you if you have given up on me that's ok. Apologies to my sister and sister in law who are overseas and do such wonderful blogging for everyone else and have been haggling me about getting my blog under control.
I'm sorry excuses are lame but it's my blog so I can say whatever I want. lol. My excuses are end of last year my time spent outside of motherly and wife duties were to start up an exciting business 'Sunshine Organising' with one of my best friends Carrie. We worked hard setting up our business and had our first official launch promoting us at some Markets and got very positive feedback but then we decided to both get pregnant at pretty much exactly the same time. Our dates were originally a day apart Now from my scan i've been moved back to the 10th august (a week away from Carrie's date) so NATURALLY we started feeling yuck and like we couldn't cope running a business and doing all the work to start it up at such a crucial time in our children's lives and with the new pregnancy. It was a very hard decision to put the business on hold. But I know once my child rearing has finished if I ever am in a position where I need to work it is all set up for us now. It is a big relief to have made this decision and i'm grateful for the lessons I have learnt.
Ok so back to daily basics We've just had lunch and R-man is down for his nap. It is great that he is still doing it (even though sometimes he plays for the majority of time before falling asleep). I don't mind as long as i'm getting some time to myself in the day to do the things he doesn't let me do (literally).
So the baby (house) is growing inside my tummy and i'm going for a scan very soon. My blood pressue is really low at the moment so all day today so far i've been needing to lie down and put my feet up :( Still managed to go outside and play soccer with the little man and lion kings and chalk drawings then it just got too much and so we came inside and did some reading.
R-man is still loving too read and has memorized many of his books (not that i'm encouraging memorising because i don't want him to get that confused with reading) but it is cute when we get the 'Home Among the Gum trees' book out and he sings the whole thing.
He is becoming a really good little singer his favourite songs at the moment are 'You're the Voice' - John Farnam. He gets on his guitar and sings it, also anything from lion king and tangled especially hakuna matata and strangely he has learnt 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland'. He has learnt this from watching Mr. Kruegers christmas. He has forgone all other church movies for this one and each sunday he wants to watch it. He sits there and watches the whole thing. I'm sorry but no matter how many times i've seen that movie i shed a little tear in the last scene when little Clarissa says "I love you Mr. Krueger" and then the narrator speaks about how Jesus has said it to us all in so many ways. Always touches me and i'm glad I can share that with my son and talk to him about those things.
He loves nursery and often he comes home singing songs and quoting little stories they do like "Mr. Crocodile". He loves to cuddle up and sing songs together. Sometimes before going to bed he likes me to stay and pat him and sing him some songs.
Painting has become a newly celebrated daily activity. It is the first thing he asks to do when he wakes up. We go out onto the deck and paint before we come inside and have breakfast. Pretend games are also a big hit in our household. Often we have to act out we're the characters from the Lion King or Winnie the Pooh. Jimmi plays Mufassa and tigger. Myself Sarabi and Kanga and R-man plays Simba and Roo. This is something I think I have instilled in my child unintentionally because that was what i enjoyed doing most as a child as well.
R-man is swimming like a little fish in his swimming class and he is starting to do things he has been scared of for a long time (running across the mat and jumping off.) This exercise is to help them get used to being on a flotation device and also being on a boat.
On Fridays I have started doing a Mum's squad. Swimming is the only physical exercise I can handle at the moment and I love it too. I take R-man to the creche for an hour while I go and swim and then I go pick him up and we play in the kids swimming park, eat lunch at the complex and then go home for a nap. It's a fun way for him to finish the week. The creche is really good as well because they are able to see me swimming in the pool and the ladies there are very lovely and there are a lot of good age appropriate things for him to do (unlike the creche at the gym he used to go to).
So our weeks seem to go a little something like this
Monday - do shopping, run errands, doctors check ups etc and play time at home and of coarse FHE. (Excluding this Monday because we put him to bed and had Hannah come and watch him while we went out to our friends for a young marrieds FHE which was awesome cause we havn't done that in awhile. R-man wasn't feeling well so we thought it best to not take him) Thanks Hannah btw!!
Tuesday - Every fortnight a R.S Presidency meeting in the morning till lunch time.
Wednesday - Stay home :) or have a play date with friends if we have missed each other over the past week or two.
Thursday - Swimming lesson in the morning
Friday - Squad and more swimming (we'll see how long this keeps up till winter hits us)
Jimmi on the other hand has been working very hard and long hours to catch up on a lot. They have been wiring up a new store and that has put them behind on a lot of other jobs as they had a strict deadline with that particular large job. But we are happy that he has a job and the work is there. This week his Dad is taking a well deserved holiday with Cathy and another employee has gone overseas for a holiday as well. So Jimmi has his new apprentice to work with. So very, very busy for him. So I need to make sure i've got the fort held down here when he gets home and things are nice and pleasant :)
Oh R-man's eczema is getting better as well which is awesome. I'm almost ready to take away his strict diet restrictions and see how he goes?? Any thoughts. I'm not sure. I would feel so bad if it got bad again just because I didn't want to keep up the effort in that area.
We've been starting toilet training which is very exciting. I read 'babywise' by Gary Ezzo to help me out in this area and so far the techniques are going well. I am doing it gradually and R-man is going to the potty maybe 4 times a day. The other times are in his pull ups but we'll get there. When we went to the shops to pick some undies and special potty training treats we got 'Chugginton' undies and River picked a packet of small chocolate easter eggs. He has loved getting them when he goes and even kisses it before opening it. Very cute.
He is really excited about our Easter Camp coming up soon and especially his Aunty Stace and Drea Potty (aka Darren) are coming over from London for a visit!!!!!!!
Ok so the story about Drea Potty... I started showing him 'Bear in the Big Blue House' episode all about potty training. In the show there's a random segment where 'Shadow' sings a song about the potty and it's like "potty hey hey hey potty. china, alaska, mexico everybody's got to go. potty hey hey hey potty" and so on and then R-man started calling it Drea Potty. Random. We sat in his bedroom 2 nights ago with jimmi's iphone talking to Stacey and Darren on skype and I told them about this and R-man was cracking up (like I do when i've got the giggles and its late at night) and was telling darren that he says "Drea Potty" haha. gold.
Well I know this has been very long winded and not terribly entertaining but if I stick to a weekly routine of blogging i'm sure it will get better right?
Well xo to you all
love us
Here's Some pics for you all
He loves building temples with the jenga blocks. Structurally Jimmi and I were really proud of this one. It took a lot of effort for Jimmi to get R-man in the picture with his creation.
Sitting in his undies holding up his chocolate egg!
Our Sunday tradition. Jimmi and R-man get up and make pancakes while i sleep in. Last Sunday I actually got up early so I made some bircher muesli (jimmi's fav)
Their first boys camp. Neither of them had a very good sleep. R-man didn't understand why I didn't come so the night was a little bit hard. Such a little mummas boy.