We gave Sam and Lucas their first solids the other day - some stewed pear. As you can see from the pictures below, Sam who is on the left wasn't quite as happy about it as Lucas was
We had a farewell breakfast for Glenn this morning as he's returning to the UK after a few weeks of work in Sydney. Here are a few pictures from the morning, Lucas is in the red stripey top and Sam is in blue:
Just a few pics from the dirt storm the other day. Amazing!
Firstly at 6am in the morning on the street out the front of our house
It has been a very difficult week.
It started last Sunday when I played golf with Michael and Glen and Mitch vomited when he came home from church and Meeks was stuck at home with a vomitting boy and tired 4 and a half month old twins. Fortunately Mitch was okay by that evening.
Monday and Tuesday were the calm before the storm. On Wednesday I started feeling nauseous. I spent all day on Wednesday feeling nauseous at work and then came home early because I had had enough and crashed in bed for a few hours which left Meeks to deal with three kids for dinner and baths etc. On Thursday I was at home sick and then Lucas got sick and spent all of Thursday being uncomfortable because of a very high temperature and then Friday (when I was back at work) he developed nasty rash which soon left spots all over his body. Meeks took him to the doctor on Friday afternoon and he said it was a virus. He had high temperatures and slept really badly Friday night. Saturday morning he was definitely on the improve and his temperature had finally started to come down. To add to our joy, on Friday night Mike and Mandy's car which was sitting out the front of our house was egged, Saturday morning the dishwasher broke (two adults, a three year old and two babies generate a lot of washing up) and we'll have to get someone out to fix it on Monday. Furthermore, on Saturday the Fire Brigade did hazard reduction burning near us which left the whole area blanketed in smoke which stayed over night so now everything stinks of smoke ... well it did, I'm not sure if it still does or if I've become so accustomed to it I don't notice it any more.
Anyhow, now it's Sunday and Sam has got whatever Lucas had, which is probably the same as what Mitch and I had but with different symptoms. If Lucas' experience was anything to go by, Sam will have a very tough night tonight and a bad day tomorrow and then things will hopefully improve on Tuesday. Finger's crossed.
So no pictures this weekend because the boys, though beautiful, are very spotty and not very photogenic. Despite the high temperatures they have generally been in good spirits, except when they have been trying to sleep
You may have noticed the person who has missed out being sick is Meeks ... at least she hasn't been sick so far. Pray for her and for the rest of us pleeeeeeaaassssee!
Okay, so I took some pictures of the smokey streets and red sun ...
Glenn, Krissy's husband is out from the Uk with work, so Michael, Glenn and I decided to play golf today. To start with I have to say, I promised Michael no pictures of him would appear on the blog, so wont post them here :) I'll keep them for blackmail purposes later :)
So Glen was my unwitting model. I have to say he came out looking okay. Check out the guns!
Great form in the follow through
Although it didn't quite go as planned every time ...
Just to prove it wasn't all about golf
Artistic golf
It is spring after all!
We took a few photos today of the family. First of all Mitchy and his brothers. Mitchy wasn't so good at smiling. He either grimaced or screwed his face up or pulled strange faces. We just had to take the best ones we could get.
Next there was Daddy and the boys
And Mummy and the boys
Then Mitchy played with his cars
Lucas and Sam are noisy boys, especially first thing in the morning. One of the highlights of my morning is when I get them up and put them in their bumbo chairs next to each other. They look at me for a little while with big smiles and then they realise that their brother is next to them. They look at each other for a bit with huge smiles and then starting "talking" to each other. Except their talking is more like some sort of weird extending squeal like bird call - they almost sound liek crows except the noise is cuter. Whatever the case, it is noisy enough to wake Mitch up.
So Mitch gets up and another moment of cuteness ensues when he comes and says hello to his little brothers and gives them a little kiss on the head and they call out to him as well.
Speaking of Mitch, he came up with a total gem the other day. He was at home with Meeks and "broke wind" (we call it "tooting" because it's less offensive than some of the other euphemisms). Meeks told him not to do it because it's rude. Mitch just shrugged his shoulders and said, "People toot!". If he only knew how cute he is, he would be dangerous :)
Happy Lucas
Lucas is a very smiley boy at the moment and noisy too!
Okay, just one more ...
and Happy Sam
And a couple of Mitchy pulling funny faces :)
