June News - Baby Liam!!!

Our beautiful baby boy is here. We have officially joined the "two boy club" with Liam Edward arriving safely on June 30. He is feeding and sleeping well and putting on lots of weight, I just want to cuddle him all the time. I was a bit worried about having a little baby again, wondering if I remember what to do, but as people say, it all comes back to you. I look at Ryan now and he just seems so big. He is being a great big brother, very gentle and loving so far of his "baby Liam". Still haven't managed to get a good photo of them together though...will get there soon I hope.

June News - Home Improvements...

At long last the painting has finished....for now. Lou had been flat chat since April painting over these green walls, with a little help from Ryan. It looks so much better and brighter now. We don't want to go overboard with the renovations as we don't plan to stay in this house, but we still want to make it nice while we are here. I have made a list for Lou of all the jobs to be done and he is getting through them, next on the list is a new picket fence, looks like I will have to get out my paint clothes and paint pickets...

May News - Wiggles Concert

At the end of May we were lucky enough to have the Wiggles in Bendigo. It's been years since they have toured the regional cities and it was so easy driving 5 minutes to the concert rather than a big trip to Melbourne. I bought the tickets about three weeks after they went on sale, so we sat in the very back row, a bit different than the front row seats I had with Jo and the boys in Peoria! Ryan loved every minute of it. We tried to get him to stand on the seat to watch, but as he is not allowed to stand on the furniture at home he was a little confused, lucky Daddy was there to stand on! The one bonus of sitting in the back row was that Jeff and Sam (purple and yellow Wiggles) walked around and Jeff gave Ryan a "Hi 5". Ryan hasn't taken his Captain Feathersword hat off since...

May News - Ryan's Birthday

Ryan turned 3, and being the huge Thomas the Tank Engine fan he is, we celebrated by taking a steam train ride from Castlemaine to Maldon. It was a gorgeous day and it was so pretty looking over Castlemaine with all the autumn leaves. Ryan enjoyed every second of the ride, I was a little concerned I might go into labour as the seats were VERY bouncy!! We had planned to go to the park afterwards and have a big play, but the train had a problem when we got to Maldon and we were about 45 minutes late getting back, so we went straight to Nanny and Pa's and had birthday cake with the family.