Moving Day

(after a long days work the boys had our local f friendly ducks pay them a visit!)

( actually excited to go to bed)

With the baby on the way we are starting to have to make some changes to our sleeping arrangements to ensure we all fit. Even though we have a 4 bedroom house, Matt has to have a study. He has SO much junk and I hate having a computer in the living areas so the only option was to have the boys share a room. This option is not one Ethan has been very excited about. But yesterday we finally got the bunk beds we had been waiting for to arrive in stock. Matt and Sean spent the morning putting the beds together ( a job I am glad i did not have to assist in and that Sean came and helped instead!). By the time the beds were up both boys were so excited that they moved Daniel's bedding in straight away and set up the beds and there soft toys that sit on their beds. I did however ask them not to move any toys in and that i would work out how to fit all there stuff in during the week......But during my afternoon nap on the couch i wake up to matt informing me that Ethan was creating room for Daniel and most of his stuff had been moved!!! I would have been annoyed but the fact that Ethan was so willing to make room for Daniel overshadowed any frustrations I had.

So this week I get to sort out the boys room and set it up and finish cleaning out Daniel's room for matt to move his study into there. I have decided that I want to study for the nursery so matt gets a new room too :) I am actually looking forward to all the moving being done with so I can start painting and setting up the baby's room.

Dinosaur Day

Ethan's class has been learning this term about dinosaurs, fossils etc. He has absolutely loved it and spends so much time at home learning about them, drawing them etc. Last Friday his class had a dress up day and they had to dress up as a dinosaur, dragon, princess etc. Ethan is normally not into any kind of dress up, and this time he still didnt want to wear a costume and I thought that once again he was going to miss out on something fun as he never participates in anything like this. But He was happy to have a dinosaur "back". So we spent Thursday night cutting out the "plates" for the back ( not spikes as i was calling them!) and made him a dinosaur back. He was so thrilled with dressing like a dinosaur that he wore it all day!!!

I was so pleased that he actually made an effort to participate :)

Hard Done By

Daniel is feeling a bit hard done by at the moment. Everyday he and I have the conversation of "why was Ethan born first". As he ask the question his eyes are filling with tears and no answer satisfies him. He is starting to feel like Ethan gets to do all the "fun" stuff and he misses out. And it all started a few weeks ago at school when in assembly Ethan had to go to the stage to receive a certificate for his nomination for Aussie of the Month. Daniel was sitting watching and by the time I picked Daniel up from school he was a little teary. Those tears welling in his eyes broke on the way home and he cried (hard) for the next hour!!! Since then everything Ethan does or has that Daniel doesnt have it starts again.!!! I have tried to tell him that he is lucky because he gets to be a big brother and a little brother which Ethan doesnt get....but his responses is just "I wanted to be born first".........I am just hoping that this phase will end soon as it is one i just cant win!

First scan

Today I had my first scan which was really exciting. Daniel got to come with me however he was a little confused. I had told him we were going to see the baby in my tummy today. So as they lady is doing the scan Daniel is looking closely to see when my stomach is going to open up so he can take a peak! It was very cute and he just didnt get that the baby was on the screen as it didnt look like a baby!
But baby (or Blob as Daniel has named it) is all good. Got all his (or her) parts. It was such a relief to finally see the baby and actually see the reason for why I have been so sick. And even better was I also got to enjoy the scan. Today is the first day in 4 weeks that I am headache free which is so nice. I feel SO normal today.

( and for those who asked due early April)

I'm still alive

Well it has been over a month since I have blogged which has been my longest break since I started.Now my absent blogging has not been because I have lost the desire to blog but more because I have been SO sick, tired etc that I have struggle just to get up and keep the kids alive. But now that I am coming to the end of my first trimester I am hoping the energy levels will pick up and the sickness will continue to slow down and I can go back to wasting many hours where I should be doing housework (or something else more productive) posting blogs and catching up on everyone elses!

Catch Up

I havent blogged for weeks sickness running through the family so i will just do a bit of a catch up. Since we have been sick we havent been doing much but we did last sunday get to celebrate Olivia's 2nd birthday at Corey and Nikki's. That was heaps of fun. Livy is so funny to watch. She is SO animated and LOVES the attention. Even now almost a week later the boys still laugh at how "funny" they thought she was!!!!

The Week before the boys and I went around to meet Aunty Erins new pet. She bought a rabbit and the boys had been dying to see it. they loved it although not brave enough to actually hold the rabbit. but were happy to touch it and thought it was extremely funny when the rabbit peed all over aunty Erin!!!!

Impulse Buying

So i'm sure we all impulse buy from time to time and I am certainly no exception. Infact i find it hard to not impulse buy. I am not a good saver and figure if I have money then i should spend it. Normally my impulse buying is the usual pair of shoes or a top etc. Nothing too expensive, but it does happen fairly often. Matt on the other hand is not so impulsive with his buying and rethinks buying something until in most cases he usually talks himself out.

The other Day however Matt had lunch with Drew and I get a call to say he is buying a new TV and when he told me the price my jaw nearly dropped! Now dont get me wrong we did need a new tv. As you can see from the pictures that our old TV was small, and it was starting to crackle. I dont know how old it was but we got it second hand from Nan Docking when she died and that was about 6 1/2 years ago. who knows how long she had owned it for.

Matt really seems to go all out when impulse buying! But at least it was something that the whole family can enjoy.