Long time, no blog

We've had so much happening in the last little while! Three fourths of us have had colds and sniffles and snotty noses and one quarter has had tooth head and is literally acting like a bear with a sore head - poor thing. I think he sees a trip to the dentist as the difference between us and a new dishwasher!

Good news though we get the keys to our new house today and will move in the big, heavy things this weekend with some help from Poppa and Uncle Gray. There is a dishwasher on the list of chattels so maybe G can go to the dentist afterall!

Bax had two days at the famr this week and he loves it. Trouble is he doesn't sleep there, he gets the chance but just doesn't so it is a good thing we have decided to balance out his time there with time at the small Steiner kindy in Epsom - he starts next week.

Last night he went to bed at 5.30 becasue he was so tired, but was so snotty he got up again at 8.30. He was really out of sorts, mumbling and sitting on my knee trying to keep his eyes open. Then he suddenly jumped up and said clear as a bell: "Berries!" "Bowl!" he took my hand a led me into the kitchn saying "Come!" then he got a bowl and opened the freezer. (I like eating frozen boysenberries which i buy in boxes from the supermarket - i have offered them to him in the past but he has always turned up his nose). He carefully carried his bowl of frozen berries back to Daddy on the couch and happily sat there munching his way through them getting red juice all over his face and hands.

I also gave him one peanut M&M - yellow - he held it carefully in his hadn for ages and the colour started to go onto his fingers - I wasn't sure he knew what it was so I stupidly broke it open to show him it was chocolate - he burst into tears. I had to give him another one. I took him to bed and read him a story, he was still clutching the M&M, then he slowly put it in his mouth but the coating just feel hard and shiny and not nice really - after a long while it melted enough to release the chocolate when he tasted it and realised whjat it was a quiet smile spread across his face - "Chocolate!" he sighed quietly to himself.

We are terrible parents really - chocolate after bed time, really! what would people think!

Izzie is still very snotty and had her jabs yesterday - she doesn't even notice them she has such a high pain threshold. big thing in her life this week is she can sit up in the bath by herself. I have a terrific photo I will put on here as soon as i get a chance and am in the right place to do so.