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Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Weaning made easy in the thermomix - Stage 1
It's always fun when you get round to that baby stage of weaning!
I remember reading an article that was circulating Facebook a while back that described weaning a baby something like this:
1. Make some holes in a watermelon and empty out as much of the fruit as you can.
2. Fill 'said' watermelon with some kind of green mush (keeping some aside for feeding).
3. Hang 'said' watermelon from the kitchen ceiling and swing it.
4. While dodging flying green mush, attempt to put some of the leftovers into the holes in the moving watermelon with the smallest spoon you can find.
5. Stand back and admire the mess you now have to clean up (3 times a day).
6. If you were successful then you are ready to wean your baby!!
This did make me chuckle as I can whole heartedly relate to the mess!! I've got to the stage now where I am starting to give Miss L some bits of food and (semi) control of the spoon so she can start to feed herself. She's just over 8 months now and I probably should have started to do this a while ago, but I'd got feeding her with a spoon without any mess down to a such a fine art that I've really had to dig deep to give her control of the spoon!!!!
Since having my thermomix I have found the process of weaning SO MUCH EASIER than I did with my other two. I can remember having every chopping board out and every single pot and steamer going all at the same time just to get one meal cooked. Then the worst bit was the 'blending'. Mashing all the cooked fuit and veg down into a puree without either burning myself or splatting it all over the kitchen was impossible!! And then I'd have to wash it all up and start again, just so that they weren't eating the same thing three times a day for a week. Oh and those weeks just fly by too. That sense of achievement you get when you have filled the freezer up with lots of little pots of pureed food only seems to last a couple of days before the freezer starts to look empty again!
With my thermie, I've been able to make just about anything I want in less than 30 minutes from start to finish without even taking a pot out of the cupboard!!!!!!! Yes, it really is my kitchen princess! The only problem I've had is finding good thermomix recipes for making 'baby food'. So I have decided to make some of my own recipes and share them with you all. I have taken a lot of my inspiration from Annabel Karmel, who is, in my eyes, the guru of baby cooking and weaning.
Here is a great all rounder that my miss L just loves!
Sweet, Creamy Vegetables
This could be made with any combination of vegetable that you have in the cupboard, but this is what I used:
Ingredients
1/2 onion
75g carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
150g sweet potato peeled and roughly chopped
1 tbs olive oil
200ml water
40g sweetcorn (frozen or tinned)
35g frozen peas
50g formula milk
Method:
Add the onion and chop on speed 6 for 3 seconds
Add the oil and saute for 1.5 minutes at 90 degrees on speed 1
Add sweet potato, carrot, peas and sweetcorn and chop on speed 6 for 5 seconds
Add the water and cook for 20-25 minutes at 100 degrees on speed 1.
Add the formula milk and blend by turning the dial slowly from 1-10 for 20 seconds.
You can easily alter both the speed you blend at and the length of time you blend for to give you different textures from very very smooth to more lumpy.
Transfer the puree to a bowl and leave it to cool for half an hour and put them in your pots ready for the freezer. Give the thermomix a quick rinse and you're ready to start the next meal!! EASY PEASY!! For a bit of variation you could also add 70g of grated cheese just before you blend or 150g of steamed fish which you can cook in the varoma at the same time as your veggies.
As a general rule, I have found that mixing two to three fruits or vegetable together always works. If your baby is not so keen on veggies, try adding two veg plus one fruit together. Here are some great basic combinations for puree's that I have made :
Apple and pear
Pear and blueberry
Banana and Mango
Apple and carrot
Sweet potato, carrot and apple
Broccoli, pea and pear
Butternut, sweetcorn and spinach
All veggies I cook at 100 degrees on speed 1 for between 20-25 minutes and fruit I tend to cook at 90 degrees on speed 1 for between 10 and 15 minutes.
Next I will be venturing onto cooking some proteins. I have not yet started Miss L on meat, but that is my next project.
Do you have any fabulous baby puree recipes?? I''d love to hear from you as I'm always looking for new, exciting things to cook for the kids.
I remember reading an article that was circulating Facebook a while back that described weaning a baby something like this:
1. Make some holes in a watermelon and empty out as much of the fruit as you can.
2. Fill 'said' watermelon with some kind of green mush (keeping some aside for feeding).
3. Hang 'said' watermelon from the kitchen ceiling and swing it.
4. While dodging flying green mush, attempt to put some of the leftovers into the holes in the moving watermelon with the smallest spoon you can find.
5. Stand back and admire the mess you now have to clean up (3 times a day).
6. If you were successful then you are ready to wean your baby!!
This did make me chuckle as I can whole heartedly relate to the mess!! I've got to the stage now where I am starting to give Miss L some bits of food and (semi) control of the spoon so she can start to feed herself. She's just over 8 months now and I probably should have started to do this a while ago, but I'd got feeding her with a spoon without any mess down to a such a fine art that I've really had to dig deep to give her control of the spoon!!!!
Since having my thermomix I have found the process of weaning SO MUCH EASIER than I did with my other two. I can remember having every chopping board out and every single pot and steamer going all at the same time just to get one meal cooked. Then the worst bit was the 'blending'. Mashing all the cooked fuit and veg down into a puree without either burning myself or splatting it all over the kitchen was impossible!! And then I'd have to wash it all up and start again, just so that they weren't eating the same thing three times a day for a week. Oh and those weeks just fly by too. That sense of achievement you get when you have filled the freezer up with lots of little pots of pureed food only seems to last a couple of days before the freezer starts to look empty again!
With my thermie, I've been able to make just about anything I want in less than 30 minutes from start to finish without even taking a pot out of the cupboard!!!!!!! Yes, it really is my kitchen princess! The only problem I've had is finding good thermomix recipes for making 'baby food'. So I have decided to make some of my own recipes and share them with you all. I have taken a lot of my inspiration from Annabel Karmel, who is, in my eyes, the guru of baby cooking and weaning.
Here is a great all rounder that my miss L just loves!
Sweet, Creamy Vegetables
This could be made with any combination of vegetable that you have in the cupboard, but this is what I used:
Ingredients
1/2 onion
75g carrot, peeled and roughly chopped
150g sweet potato peeled and roughly chopped
1 tbs olive oil
200ml water
40g sweetcorn (frozen or tinned)
35g frozen peas
50g formula milk
Method:
Add the onion and chop on speed 6 for 3 seconds
Add the oil and saute for 1.5 minutes at 90 degrees on speed 1
Add sweet potato, carrot, peas and sweetcorn and chop on speed 6 for 5 seconds
Add the water and cook for 20-25 minutes at 100 degrees on speed 1.
Drain out all excess water using the thermomix basket.
Add the formula milk and blend by turning the dial slowly from 1-10 for 20 seconds.
Transfer the puree to a bowl and leave it to cool for half an hour and put them in your pots ready for the freezer. Give the thermomix a quick rinse and you're ready to start the next meal!! EASY PEASY!! For a bit of variation you could also add 70g of grated cheese just before you blend or 150g of steamed fish which you can cook in the varoma at the same time as your veggies.
As a general rule, I have found that mixing two to three fruits or vegetable together always works. If your baby is not so keen on veggies, try adding two veg plus one fruit together. Here are some great basic combinations for puree's that I have made :
Apple and pear
Pear and blueberry
Banana and Mango
Apple and carrot
Sweet potato, carrot and apple
Broccoli, pea and pear
Butternut, sweetcorn and spinach
All veggies I cook at 100 degrees on speed 1 for between 20-25 minutes and fruit I tend to cook at 90 degrees on speed 1 for between 10 and 15 minutes.
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| A bit blurry but she was jumping up and down and waving her arms around so much it was nearly impossible to get a good shot! |
Do you have any fabulous baby puree recipes?? I''d love to hear from you as I'm always looking for new, exciting things to cook for the kids.
Monday, 4 February 2013
The last week of January in pictures. Love Instagram!
I'm a bit late with this post, I'm afraid. I was due to write it yesterday but forgot that we had to spend the day in the city having full medical checks for our permanent residency application for Australia!! What a process that was!! But I am happy to report that we are all fit and healthy with no hidden tropical diseases. We're almost there now - SO exciting.
This week has welcomed back ROUTINE!!! YEE HA!! As much as I have really loved having the kids home for the holidays, I was starting to really crave routine again. The summer school holiday really is a long one.
The last few days of our holidays were a bit of a wash out after what seemed like a years worth of rain decided to fall in a couple of days. (My heart really does go out to all those poor families in Queensland that have been so badly affected by the rain, with some horrendous flooding). We were lucky in Sydney to just have a few flash floods. However living on the coast, the Ocean has given us some spectacular displays with some of the biggest waves I've EVER seen. It was mesmerising just watching them. Even the local surfers weren't brave enough to venture out.
On Wednesday morning Master J started Year 1! They mixed up all the classes from last year so not only did he have a new teacher but a whole new class too. He came out after his first day looking a little shell shocked, but apparently he'd had a very good day. I had about 50 questions I wanted to ask about his day and had to be very restrained, keeping it to about 5! Or maybe 10? "Who was your new teacher? Was she nice? Who is in your class? Who did you sit next to? Did you recognise anyone from last year??........." "MUM!!! Will you just stop with all the questions - why do you HAVE to ask so many???????" Typical boy - leaving me almost begging for information!!
Somebody decided to start crawling this week! With her very first expedition just when I wasn't looking!! Typical!!! I popped her down on a grassy patch next to car while I opened the boot to get her pushchair out, when suddenly I heard the most awful scream! You know the kind that starts with silence......... I whizzed round to see that she had tried to crawl off the edge of the kerb and landed head first! Poor bunny - I think we both had tears. Fortunately it looked far worse than it actually was!
Did you notice that I have finally got around to getting my photos watermarked?? What do you think?? I have been using an app on my iphone called "PhotoMarkr", which lets me insert my own image as well as txt onto a watermark. It's really good, although it would be a lot less time consuming if there was an application I could use directly in iphoto on my computer. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
This week has welcomed back ROUTINE!!! YEE HA!! As much as I have really loved having the kids home for the holidays, I was starting to really crave routine again. The summer school holiday really is a long one.
The last few days of our holidays were a bit of a wash out after what seemed like a years worth of rain decided to fall in a couple of days. (My heart really does go out to all those poor families in Queensland that have been so badly affected by the rain, with some horrendous flooding). We were lucky in Sydney to just have a few flash floods. However living on the coast, the Ocean has given us some spectacular displays with some of the biggest waves I've EVER seen. It was mesmerising just watching them. Even the local surfers weren't brave enough to venture out.
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| A stunning display at Narrabeen Beach |
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| Some rainy day play. Miss H managed to stay in her PJ's the WHOLE day! (Ahh remember those days.......) |
On Wednesday morning Master J started Year 1! They mixed up all the classes from last year so not only did he have a new teacher but a whole new class too. He came out after his first day looking a little shell shocked, but apparently he'd had a very good day. I had about 50 questions I wanted to ask about his day and had to be very restrained, keeping it to about 5! Or maybe 10? "Who was your new teacher? Was she nice? Who is in your class? Who did you sit next to? Did you recognise anyone from last year??........." "MUM!!! Will you just stop with all the questions - why do you HAVE to ask so many???????" Typical boy - leaving me almost begging for information!!
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| First day of year 1. He handled it like a pro |
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| A quick swim after school. I'm going to miss these days when the winter starts to creep in on us. |
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| Sleeping beauty |
Since Master J and Miss H have gone back to school and Kindy I've really enjoyed having my little bubs all to myself. I'm really going to make a conscious effort to make the most it as I know it'll be gone in a blink!
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| Caught in a down pour after school! Why does it always rain at EXACTLY 10 past 3????? |
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| Poor Miss L was less than impressed at being caught in the rain. By the time we got to the car she was actually sitting in a huge puddle of water! |
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| Fed up of being indoors, Master J decided to brave the angry clouds take a chance of being drenched again to practice his skateboarding. |
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| Miss H's first sleepover over. Such good little cuties they were. |
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| She is just so kissable! |
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| Routine means my early morning fitness classes have resumed. Those beautiful sunrises make all the blood, sweat and tears worthwhile! |
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| Ouchie!! |
Somebody decided to start crawling this week! With her very first expedition just when I wasn't looking!! Typical!!! I popped her down on a grassy patch next to car while I opened the boot to get her pushchair out, when suddenly I heard the most awful scream! You know the kind that starts with silence......... I whizzed round to see that she had tried to crawl off the edge of the kerb and landed head first! Poor bunny - I think we both had tears. Fortunately it looked far worse than it actually was!
Did you notice that I have finally got around to getting my photos watermarked?? What do you think?? I have been using an app on my iphone called "PhotoMarkr", which lets me insert my own image as well as txt onto a watermark. It's really good, although it would be a lot less time consuming if there was an application I could use directly in iphoto on my computer. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Mrs D's resolutions for 2013
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| Four amazing reasons why 2013 is going to be awesome! |
As I sit here on the eve of one year staring towards the horizon of another, I thought I'd make myself a little list of resolutions for the new year to help keep me on track. As strange as this may sound, I have never actually written down any new years resolutions before. I've often half-heartedly thought of a few (normally to loose a couple more kilos off my belly), but have never actually made a proper list and stuck to it! So this year (or next?? bit confusing when you're sitting on the edge of a new year) I am going to do just that!
My list
- Loose that last 6 kilos off my belly (ok, I know! But I really, really do need to kick that last bit of baby weight). Thought I'd put that one down first and get it out of the way.
- Meal Plan! Why I have never managed to do this before I do not know! Everyone meal plans' right?? It is something that I have always been meaning to start doing and for some reason just never do. I have lost count on the number of times I have had to rush out to the shops (with 3 whingy kids in tow) just to pick up that ONE missing ingredient for the dinner that I'm trying to make. If anyone has any good apps or meal plan suggestion please send them my way.
- Become a better juggler! Being nanny mummy to three little cherubs under 6 requires a certain amount of juggling. That goes without saying, but my goal is to try and drop less balls along the way. As much as I love my iphone calendar I think this year I am going to go against the grain and go back to paper (with the iphone as back up of course). I'm going actually use a diary next year instead of using my head (which if you cracked open would resemble a sieve). Mr D if you are reading this, a lovely 2013 diary would make a great birthday pressie next week!!!!!
- Learn to say No. I'm pretty sure if you asked Mr D and the kids they'd say I was an expert at saying No. However, my biggest problem is that I always think I can do more than I actually can and that is often when I start to drop balls (back to the juggling). I was particularly bad at this during the second half of this year and ended up feeling that I was not doing anything properly.
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The top 5 things that matter the most to me for 2013:
- Making sure my kids have another great year at school
- Making sure I have a set amount of quality time with each of my munchins every week
- Time for me and Mr D
- Growing my blog
- Growing Candy Bows
- I will spent much less time ironing in 2013. The control freak in me was just not able to let go of ironing almost ALL the washing (which is ALOT in our house) and it often ended up causing me huge amounts of stress as it piled up. I will NOT be at the mercy of it next year (gulp).
- Growing my blog. Ever since staring this blog earlier this year I have found it to be a little piece of something just for me! I just love love writing it and my goal next year is to get myself more 'out there' (cyber space that is). I'm so flattered by how many people read my ramblings and I would love to grow my member list to 100 by the end of next year. I am on 21 members at the moment, so if you'd like to join MrsD, then just click on the "home" page at the top and you can join up (on the right hand side). I also have so many exciting changes up my sleeve for next year, so you'll just have to watch this space now, won't you?
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| I will not be afraid to change! |
- Growing Candy Bows. For those of you that don't already know, I have a little business which I run from home, so that I can work around my kids. I supply the most gorgeous hair bows, hair accessories and tutus for little girls. "Pretty little things for Pretty little people". I have a Facebook page, which you can find by clicking here. I currently have 293 'likes' and by the end of next year I would love have 1000. I have had so much fun with Candy Bows this year and am really proud of my progress. Next year is going to be even better.
- Appreciation. I just want to say that I am the luckiest person alive. I am loved and I have the most wonderful family. I will make sure that every day next year I remember that.
I think I am going to stop there as I don't want to give myself too many balls (for fear of dropping them again). I am going to come back to this blog post half way through the year to check on my progress. (Nothing like keeping it accountable!) and will be sure to let you know how I'm doing.
Well that is me, over and out, for 2012. I thank you all for all your support of both Mrs D and Candy Bows. It has meant the world and gives me a constant supply of motivation. Wishing you both a fantastic New Year's Eve, whatever you may be doing, and a fabulous 2013. Extra Extra special wishes to my wonderful family who are dotted all over the world. This one is for you xxx
Monday, 24 December 2012
A year in pictures! The db's best bits of 2012.
I cannot believe that I am sitting here "rounding up the year"! Where has it gone?? I know the saying goes that the older you get the faster the years fly by - but am I that old already?? 2012 has been our first complete year spent in Sydney and has certainly been action packed. Here is a quick summary of our best bits.....
January
It was a lovely start to 2012 having mum and dad stay with us for a few weeks. I loved having them around so much that when I dropped them back at the airport to catch their flight I sobbed the WHOLE way home. Luckily I had been warned that this would happened and after a few days I was back in the swing of things and waiting for their next trip to Sydney.
February
Master J started Kindergarden his month. It was an emotional day for me as he looked so grown up, yet so small in his school uniform. I may have shed a tiny tear, but managed to hold it together very well. Miss H also started her little Kindy and looked so grown up. As they both started on the same day (very strategically planned) Mr D and I decided to take the opportunity to enjoy a lovely kid free lunch. We were having such a great time that we almost forgot the kids and ended up being late to pick them up........on their first day! Such bad parenting!!!!
March
March was a big month for Mr D as he was promoted at work. On the 18th March we also celebrated making our first year in Australia.
April
This month our Miss H turned 3. She celebrated her birthday at Steve Irwin’s ‘Australia Zoo’ in Queensland. We spent the easter school holidays in Queensland, exploring some of the stunning Australian coastline. It was our first loooooooong drive with kids and a very pregnant me, but it didn't put us off and we'll defiantly be doing it again.
May
On the 29th of May our beautiful little Miss L arrived into the world. We had a couple of slightly stressful false alarms on the week running up to her birth, and when she finally arrived we only JUST made it to the hospital on time!! (and gained a speeding and parking fine along the way). I had the most amazing 5 night stay in the most beautiful hospital (or hotel) getting to know my new little munchkin. It was hard being so far from my family at this time but I am so grateful to all our wonderful new friends that went out of their way to help us settle in as a new family of 5. Miss H and Master J was SOOOO excited to have their new baby at long last and we had to visit both schools to show her off. It really is amazing to see how innately strong the sibling bond is.
June
This month was a bit of a blur for me to be honest as I was a little sleep deprived to say the least! I did however manage to get a huge parking fine and crash the car! Fortunately no one was hurt (apart from our bank balance) but it was a real lesson for me, that I can’t do EVERYTHING on my own and that it’s ok to accept help. But on a more exciting note – we got news that my little sis and her Mr are expecting their first baby girl next year and I’m going to be an Aunty!!!
July
Mum arrived this month from England (just in the nick of time) to meet our little Miss L and to help us all get through the first school holidays with three kids. It was an absolute godsend having her here and even though it was the middle of winter, the weather was beautiful and sunny and we had a wonderful couple of weeks. It made me realise just how much we miss not having mum and dad down the road.
August
This month I decided to turn my blog writing into something a little more permanent. I initially started writing it as a means to keep family and friends up to date with our lives in Sydney. I enjoy writing it so much that I’ve decided to go a little more public with it. I suddenly have found myself immersed in a new world of social media and had no idea how ‘big’ it was out there! I’m learning so much all the time and want to keep going (even thought I’m hard pressed to find the time sometimes).
September
School holidays again! Can’t quite believe we are two‐thirds through the first school year! We headed up the north coast on our first road trip as a family of 5. It was only a 4 hour drive but we had to make several stops for feeding and wee’s and leg stretching. Thank god for ipads – I don’t know how my parents survived without them! We stayed in the beautiful Port Stephens Bay for a week and did nothing but chill out at the beach. I even managed to read a book!!!
This month our Miss H turned 3. She celebrated her birthday at Steve Irwin’s ‘Australia Zoo’ in Queensland. We spent the easter school holidays in Queensland, exploring some of the stunning Australian coastline. It was our first loooooooong drive with kids and a very pregnant me, but it didn't put us off and we'll defiantly be doing it again.
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| Crikey! It's my birthday! |
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| Enjoying some of Queensland's spectacular beaches |
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| Beautiful Byron Bay and a big bump |
On the 29th of May our beautiful little Miss L arrived into the world. We had a couple of slightly stressful false alarms on the week running up to her birth, and when she finally arrived we only JUST made it to the hospital on time!! (and gained a speeding and parking fine along the way). I had the most amazing 5 night stay in the most beautiful hospital (or hotel) getting to know my new little munchkin. It was hard being so far from my family at this time but I am so grateful to all our wonderful new friends that went out of their way to help us settle in as a new family of 5. Miss H and Master J was SOOOO excited to have their new baby at long last and we had to visit both schools to show her off. It really is amazing to see how innately strong the sibling bond is.
June
This month was a bit of a blur for me to be honest as I was a little sleep deprived to say the least! I did however manage to get a huge parking fine and crash the car! Fortunately no one was hurt (apart from our bank balance) but it was a real lesson for me, that I can’t do EVERYTHING on my own and that it’s ok to accept help. But on a more exciting note – we got news that my little sis and her Mr are expecting their first baby girl next year and I’m going to be an Aunty!!!
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| Settling in as the new dB5 |
Mum arrived this month from England (just in the nick of time) to meet our little Miss L and to help us all get through the first school holidays with three kids. It was an absolute godsend having her here and even though it was the middle of winter, the weather was beautiful and sunny and we had a wonderful couple of weeks. It made me realise just how much we miss not having mum and dad down the road.
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| When Granny came to stay |
This month I decided to turn my blog writing into something a little more permanent. I initially started writing it as a means to keep family and friends up to date with our lives in Sydney. I enjoy writing it so much that I’ve decided to go a little more public with it. I suddenly have found myself immersed in a new world of social media and had no idea how ‘big’ it was out there! I’m learning so much all the time and want to keep going (even thought I’m hard pressed to find the time sometimes).
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| Mr D takes the kids on a tree climbing adventure to give me some time to write! |
School holidays again! Can’t quite believe we are two‐thirds through the first school year! We headed up the north coast on our first road trip as a family of 5. It was only a 4 hour drive but we had to make several stops for feeding and wee’s and leg stretching. Thank god for ipads – I don’t know how my parents survived without them! We stayed in the beautiful Port Stephens Bay for a week and did nothing but chill out at the beach. I even managed to read a book!!!
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| Road-tripping with 3 |
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| Family time on the beach |
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| Miss L's first swim. What a cutie x |
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| Beautiful Hawkes Nest Bay |
This month Master J turned 6 – at last!! I say that because he asked me at least once a week from the beginning of the year ‘how many sleeps until I’m 6?’ He seems to have grown up so much this year and bringing with it a whole new set of parenting challenges for us. Especially now that he can read – nothing is a secret anymore. The other day he managed to get onto the school canteen app on my iPhone and order his own lunch!!!! Telling me he didn’t feel like my sandwiches that day. However we are so proud of how he has settled, not only into his new life in Aus but also into school. (Not sure how I’m going to cope next year when the homework starts to come home). We also spent a long weekend away with my cousin LCJ and MT in a beach house up the North Coast of Sydney. I love it that I have one family member that is ‘almost’ around the corner. It was an awesome weekend with lots of laughs! The boys were on a fishing mission and even ended up knee deep in mud just to get to a great fishing spot!!!
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| Master J turn 6. What a bunch of cheeky riders! |
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| Mr D and MT relaxing with some ocean fishing. Unfortunately they didn't catch anything we could actually eat! |
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| LCJ with her newest niece |
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| All this mud was Miss H's idea of HEAVEN! |
The Sydney weather kicked up a gear or two in the heat department this month and has given me an indication of what’s to come in the summer!! HOT HOT HOT!! We’ve had some extremely humid days making my daily job of getting in and out the car a hundred times (well not quite hundred but it feels like that sometimes) not so pleasant! Roll on the school holidays. Master J also started nippers (junior surf life saving) and ocean swim club this month. He has taken to the water so well and I think we might have a little swim star on our hands. Miss H did her first ballet recital on stage this month and was absolutely beautiful. It brought a little tear to my eye (yes, another one!!).
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| Master J swimming his awesome 25m race in the big pool! |
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| Miss H and her beautiful ballerina friends waiting for their turn to go on stage |
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| Ice-cream at the beach after school - you know it's summer time!! |
This month we will have our first Christmas ever with just the 5 of us! We’re going to be house sitting for a colleague ofMr D's, so will spend Christmas and New Year at a lovely Beach House just kicking back and enjoying all the festivities.
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| I have had loads of fun taking Candy Bows to the local markets over the festive period |
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| Have a good chat with Santa x |
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| Miss L meets Santa at the beach. It's strange to think she'll never know a cold, wintery Christmas. |
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| Master J's school Christmas concert. It was so cute I might have welled up just a tiny little bit. |
With that I’d like to thank you all, my lovely readers, for following Mrs D this year. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and an exciting 2013.
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