Wow, has it really been so long since I last blogged? "Emma is now 3 weeks old..." now reads "Emma is now 8 months old and crawls like greased lighting"!

How to catch up on over 7 months, and most of Em's lifetime...

The time since Em was born has been chaotic, filled with family visitors as well as wonderful. Life as a family of four is a constant learning experience for all of us, but going well. Mikey and Emma adore each other and are playing together more and more as Emma's understanding of things grows.

Since Em's birth we've had Brendan's sister Mandi spend a couple of weeks with us, then Brendan's mom stayed for 2 months which was heaven. My Dad then came for nearly 3 months, and is coming to stay for another 3 from this Saturday - woohoo! It's been fantastic having grandparents around. We'd like to "import" them permanently :)


Em has two teeth (bottom middle) which appeared just before and just after her 6 month birthday - she doesn't seem to be in any hurry to push any more through just yet. She started crawling at 7 and a half months, a month younger than Mikey did but is less interested than he was in standing up and furniture cruising.

Mikey's now a toilet training graduate and loves "giving the thirsty trees a drink" when we're at the park :). The "terrible two's" also seem to be a thing of the past. He's a very loving big brother to Em, and loves helping Mummy with things like vacuum cleaning (to the point where we got him his own mini hoover). Climbing and trampolines are all the rage right now. He's also started to really enjoy other kids his own age and is developing friendships which is so sweet to see.


Brend is still travelling a lot, the three of us miss him when he's away. Fortunately he's usually home for weekends (aka "Daddy Days"). Recently he's started taking charge of them on Saturday mornings from about 5am-7:30am while I either take my camera out or go paddling on the Bay (more on that to come!).


As for me, I'm still a SAHM (stay at home mum) and hoping to keep that job title for quite a while to come. Mikey will be attending Kindy for a couple of days a week as from next year, but we have no plans to start Emma going for another couple of years to give her the same start Mikey's had. We're busy getting Mikey's name onto school waiting lists at the moment (seems like we should have done this already - what happened to my baby?!) as we finally know where we'll be living when he starts school. We've sold our townhouse in Ormiston and in 2 weeks time will be moving 2 suburbs up the coast to Thorneside, to a highset home with a lovely backyard for the kids. Exciting times ahead!