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Wed 13 December 2006, 12h41

Been a Little Busy

My last proper update was way back in August, which may give you some idea of how hectic life has been in the last 4 months. Despite our attempts to have 'quiet' weekends to recover, we seem to have been busy with kids parties or baptisms or whatever the weekends bring. The oulook until Christmas isn't looking much better either.

Ian and Jennifer are now 6 months old, and are taking solids now which is pretty challenging. Getting rice porridge into one 6-month-old is hard enough, doing it with two is an art requiring both lightning-quick spoon reflexes and patience only a mother can have. On the occasions I get to feed them, a fair portion of the food never makes it into their stomachs, but rather into their, hair, bib and pram.

Sarah turned 3 in October and had a fantastic party with a jumping castle. I started a wendy house on the jungle gym for her, but construction has been slow. I still have to make the front, door and windows. All in good time.

We had Ian's baptism on the 1^st of October which was lovely. As you may recall, Jennifer was baptised the the neonatal unit, so she took part in all of the cermony except for the baptismal blessing.

At the beginning of November we spent a weekend with Dave and Anne at Sun City which was a welcome rest.

Then it was Matthew's birthday, Kayla's birthday, Niel's baptism, Nicky's birthday, Leigh's birthday and a hundred other things that fade into my memory at this stage.

I've added a photo album of general pics of the kids unti I get time to post proper albums for all the events.

Cheers,

Gus

Wed 20 September 2006, 21h24

Sorry for the Delay

Sorry that I've not made an update for a very long time. I'm busy with a re-design of the site and not getting as much done as I would like.

Patience is a virtue.

Gus

Sun 13 August 2006, 23h01

Getting back to Normal?

I'm not sure what is considered normal any more. The picture shows a 'normal' evening in our house - one of my jobs is to make bottles for the next 24 hours, and this is what it looks like!

We had another good weekend. I managed to get a good deal of work done on the compactum and the main body is now complete and standing in the babies room. I even managed to get 4 coats of sealer on the thing - a record for me as I'm normally bored by the 2^nd coat.

Now I have to set myself on the task of making the drawers - something I've not done before so I'm looking forward to it.

The rennovation of our gates and garage doors went well and they are looking good again. Rasta has also done the jungle gym which desperately needed varnish before the summer rains, as well as the facia boards. He's also going to repair my garage roof which has leaked since the day we moved into the house, and I've not got around to fixing it until now.

Seems as if we are going to replace the main gate - seem like a bit of a waste to spend money on something that won't last much longer anyway. Financial decision still pending.

We ended the weekend with dinner with Dave and Anne who took on the daring task of looking after the three kids while we were ar mass. Apparently, chaos reigned for a while when we were gone. Bless their hearts for stepping up like they do.

On the down side, Sarah, Ian and Jennifer have all managed to get snotty noses. I'm seriously hoping that it's not serious this time - I don't need more kids in hospital.

That's it for me tonight.

Gus

New Photo Albums Wed 09 August 2006, 16h06

The Pace of Life Wed 02 August 2006, 20h40

Getting Back to Work Sat 08 July 2006, 21h14

Betting Results Mon 26 June 2006, 21h17

The Journey Has Begun Fri 23 June 2006, 22h17

Ian Comes Home Thu 22 June 2006, 00h31

Getting Cuter by the Day Fri 16 June 2006, 20h59

Jennifer takes the Lead Thu 08 June 2006, 21h39

Getting Stronger Sat 03 June 2006, 12h12

Even Better News Tue 30 May 2006, 22h13

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