We're now a family of four.
John has settled in at his new job, and absolutely loves it. Must love public service jobs.
It's our four year wedding anniversary tomorrow. That has gone particularly fast. We're celebrating on Friday instead of tomorrow, with a seafood bonanza. I'm going to go to the fisherman's co-op and buy scallops, and prawns, and oysters, and we'll cook them ourselves. If either of us could be bothered, we'd get some salmon and have some sashimi, but neither of us want to cut it up, or clean up the mess for that matter...
Alex is growing into such a lovely little man. He has his two and a half year old moments, which usually involve lots of high pitched screaming when things don't go his way, but he's generally pretty good. His speech is still not fabulous, but he can now count up to 20, or 30 with a little help, recognises numbers written up to 10 or so, can recognise almost every letter of the alphabet, knows all of his colours and shapes, and can recognise his name written down, so that's pretty cool. He's obsessed with Cars, and Lightning McQueen. He carries his Lightning McQueen car around with him everywhere, including bed. We've had some success toilet-training for the past week and a half, and he actually asks to go to the potty when he's wearing undies. Other days, he hates wearing undies and chucks a tanty if I don't put a nappy on, but I figure he won't be in nappies forever...
He's also starting lots of activities next term. Tuesdays, we're going back to playgroup. Fridays, we still do music at the Conservatorium. Saturdays, he's starting Korean language school, and Sundays, he does swimming lessons. I feel like we're hot-housing the poor child, but he loves doing different activities. He hasn't tried the Korean language classes yet, but hopefully we'll both learn a few words. We also have his name down for a spot at a day care or preschool as soon as possible, which I think he will love when he eventually gets a place.
Charlie is growing well, and is already well over 5kg at eight weeks. We're almost out of 000s and into 00s. He's absolutely gorgeous and so very placid. He has the cutest smile, and is starting to laugh and have little cooing chats with you. We're in the midst of planning his baptism in a month or two, which will also coincide with his 100 days birthday. He sleeps like an angel, and feeds like an angel. It feels so much easier this time. Probably because I know what I'm doing... I'm much better at sticking with the "feed, play, sleep" routine, and recognising tired signs. I've realised how set in having a routine I've become. I really need to relax a bit, I think.
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