Splashing Good Fun

I love puddles - and so do the boys. It rained ALL day today (gotta love that - our tank is filling up yey!) and plenty of deep puddles formed on the golf course. So the kid in me asked the kids themselves if they wanted to go for a splash in the puddles. I didn't have to ask twice. Bren got some snaps of us playing. Being a little cool out we only splashed around for about 1/2 an hour then came inside for a warm shower. It was great fun and a good reminder to make the most of every situation and that fun can be really cheap too!!!

Autumn Colours

Officially we are in winter - it's only turned cool within the last week or so. Before this we experienced the warmest autumn in many years (some days it was reaching 30c which is mighty hot for this time of year).

The tree pictured is still in autumn mode. It would have to be one of my favourite trees (no its not in our front yard) because it reminds me of Canada and because it is just soooo beautiful. We all went for a short walk this morning to the house that is lucky enough to have it in their front yard. Bren knocked on the door (I was too shy!) to ask if we could take a photo of it. The guy who answered the door (thanks David) was quite amused and said by all means we could do so. I snapped a few quick shots of the boys in front of the tree (before Seth could run off and before Caleb made too many funny faces) and then a close up of the leaves.

I really do love this tree - maybe I should plant one in our front yard.........

Newest photo of us

Hey - it's not the best photo but it is the most recent one of all of us. Caleb's class is looking at families (and where each family is from) and we were asked to make a page describing our family and where we were born etc etc. We didn't have a very recent photo of all of us so out came the camera - we set it up for remote shooting and then we all piled on the couch hoping for the best - especially with a wiggly Seth. We didn't do too badly - considering we were all feeling a bit under the weather. We will have to try and get a better portrait done at some point.

It's Beginning to Feel a Bit Like Winter

At long last!!

The temp during the day is a glorious 21c but at night it's been dipping down to about 9c (above zero that is!) which while not really really cold is still cold enough for us to bother stoking up the fireplace. Remember we don't have internal heating - so whatever it is outside it generally is about the same inside.

Seth is very keen on the fireplace - so keen that we have to really keep an eye on him. Thankfully he understands the concept of hot so keeps away from the fireplace when it is on. He loves helping bundle the kindling to get the fire started and then happily sits on his little step to watch as the flames build and dance their own merry dance.

The fireplace really helps to take the coldness out of the air and lends a very cosy atmosphere to our house. We don't use it very much but it is something that we have really enjoyed using - it means that winter really is here - and you've gotta love that.

Becoming Good Mates

Playing at Rainbow Beach

Blowing out Daddy's Candles

Playing "peek-a-boo"

I have noticed lately that Caleb and Seth are beginning to play with each other a lot more.

Seth loves his big brother to bits and is wanting to be around him more and more. He gets quite upset when Caleb shuts the door on him (so he can play trains in peace usually) - he comes to me and says 'La la (Caleb) door" in the saddest sweetest voice - as if to say "I really want to be in the room with Caleb." How do you negotiate with a georgeous, sweet (if not mile a minute) boy who really does not understand that his brother needs his own space and really does not like to have his things flung from here to there or have his train set so neatly and carefully constructed destroyed in two seconds flat. So I usually distract Seth with something else like cuddles or songs or drawing etc etc.

Caleb does however love to play with his mischeivous younger brother as well. In the past when Seth was not quite so robust I would always be on the alert - Caleb didn't understand that Seth was only a baby and therefore had to be treated gently. Now however our youngest is at times the instigator of rough and tumble play. Caleb loves it. Often they play hide and seek under the bed sheets or chasey down the hall way. Even better is jumping on top of daddy or daddy's favourite 'let's tickle mummy'!!
I love watching the two of them together. It makes my heart sing to not only see them together but WANT to play together.
May they always be each others best friend.

A Hearty Scare

Well well well - our little Seth (3 days out from his final cardiologist appointment - we had hoped!) decided to give us a bit of a scare. He was running quite a high temp yesterday and with it came a racing heartbeat - we measured it around 180BPM!! Seth was feeling absolutely miserable - very drowsy, quiet and off his food - very much UNLIKE our mile a minute little boy. So we called the ambulance - they whipped us off to hospital where they did an ECG, took blood samples, gave him some hydrating fluid, etc etc and gave him another dose of paracetemol and iboprufen (to lower his temp). Thankfully this also helped to lower his heartrate - which meant that his tachycardia was due to fever and NOT SVT. Which was wonderful news to us as that meant that he would not have to endure awful vagal manouvers (holding his breath, gagging him, ice on his head) nor would he have to have adenosine injected into his bloodstream. You would not believe how releived we were to hear this news.

As a precaution however the dr's decided to admit him overnight for observation. The nurses were awesome - in fact he was assigned a one-on-one nurse just to make sure he was ok. Bren stayed with us until about 2 am in the morning - when there was not much else to do except try and get Seth to sleep. I stayed with Seth in a comfy(ish) lounge chair and tried to get snatches of sleep when Seth also slept (which by the way wasn't much - poor little guy felt terribly crappy and kept waking every half hour or so). I think we got about 2 hours of sleep - oh how I am waiting for him to go to sleep today so that I can get a really long power nap in.

So there you have our little adventure - and I was wondering what to write next in our blog - hmm I think I'd rather write about the mundane thank you very much!!!!

Here's to the simple things in life - celebrate the everyday - appreciate the small things -

be thankful for all that you have.

Yikes - I think I've started something!!

My Lovely Boys

This is three of the "We Four Mallyons"


This is my first blog- post - whatever you call it. Just checking to see how easy or hard this is to do. I give credit to my friend Laureen for getting me started - I also thought it would be a great idea to use something like this when we do another OS exchange - how cool would that be to post something EVERY DAY!! What a way to keep in touch with everyone.

I'll have to slot this blogging thing into my everyday routine. Will have to get up a few minutes earlier before the boys rise so that I can have some peace in which to write.