Our Christmas and a Holiday

Andrew, Eva and I really enjoyed a lovely 4 day break together, at home over Christmas.  It was so nice to spend special time together and relax at home. Christmas Day was busy but most enjoyable.  We were able to wait until Eva woke at her normal time and then check out the Christmas Tree [...]

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A Merry and Holy Christmas to All

    We would like to wish you a very Merry and Holy Christmas celebration today.  We hope that you are all with family that you love and spend some time remembering those whom you love how are not present.  May you find peace in the busyness of today. We have had a busy and [...]

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A Live Nativity Scene

Last night we participated in a local church’s live nativity with Gran and Pop and Auntie Ali, Amelia and Nathaniel.  Of great excitement was the donkey, Mary and Joseph’s mode of transport on which children were able to ride bare backed.  The donkey did laps of the grounds including a stroll down the aisle of [...]

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Grass, that’s all

Eva had an appointment with a paediatric allergist and immunologist this week.  We came away finding out that she is allergic to a type of grass and that’s all.  After Dr Dean took her history Eva had a skin prick test on her back for just a few things, none of them food.  The only [...]

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A Halfway There Update

We are now halfway into our pregnancy.  Now that I have hit the 20′s in terms of weeks I am starting to have some moments of anxiety about the following 4 weeks.  I find it so easy to reflect on this period in Eva’s pregnancy.  We had just had a lovely few weeks of visiting [...]

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A Change

Eva has lost interest in breast feeding and I’m sad.  I realise that it is an appropriate stage developmentally as she wants to gain her independence and also the milk has changed with pregnancy but still I was hoping she would last a bit longer.  Thankfully she was very gradual reducing the feed frequency and [...]

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Canvas Art by Eva

With beautiful weather on the weekend we thought that it was time to crack out the paints and let Eva create a canvas for her room.  Not sure who had more fun Eva or us parents.  Eva enjoyed putting the paint on the canvas and herself.  Especially after Daddy painted her hands she thought that [...]

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Oh Christmas Tree

This past weekend we brought home and decorated a real Christmas Tree.  Thus far it has been a fun experience.  Firstly Andrew had to go back to the Scouts without us (and the car seat) to fit the tree in.  Then we needed to add to our ornament collection and then we were able to [...]

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A 10kg Miracle!

Eva weighs 10kg now which we think is a big milestone. In honour of such a fabulous gain and achievement Eva and I baked a celebratory cake.  She had a cake for each kilo up to 5kg so I thought 10kg was a worthy celebration. We had another review with Dr Dan a neonatal paediatrician. [...]

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