Our Day At The Beach

We went to the beach before Christmas (Dec 22nd) but I am only getting the pics on now. Its so nice to walk along the sand and watch the waves, we let Ethan go in the water a litle bit but not far who knows what in the water up here it makes me nervous. I am very eager to go to the goldcoast so I can feel better about him going into the water, but with all the recent shark attacks who knows I might stick to wave pools! Ethan gets so excited watching the waves come at him and runs straight for the water everytime, he hasn't even tried to eat sand yet which surprised me.

The ocean is so beautiful :)

Boxing Day

For boxing day we decided to go to the waterpark for a family activity as Ethan really loves swimming. Everytime we take him he has so much fun. He has no sense of fear and gets upset when we hold him to stop him from drowning because he wants to go by himself, which obviously he cannot do yet. He starts swimming lessons at the end of January s we are looking forward to that.

We has a beautiful day at the pool, the sun was out and it was warm as usual in the top end. Here are some pictures from our nice family excursion. I wanted to take pictures of him going down the slide by himself on his belly, which he loves but I have to catch him, so cannot do both!

Christmas 2008

Well Christmas 2008 has come and gone and we had a wonderful time. Ethan loves the Christmas Movies, Carols and ripping all the wrapping paper off of his presents. I had so much fun watching Ethan and Scott enjoy their gifts and playing away. I also got some very nice gifts and I am grateful we were able to be so blessed at a time of year where many are more unfortunate than we are.

I do have to admit that Christmas in Australia doesn't feel like Christmas at all, there is such a lack of Christmas spirit in our neighborhood. Only two people other than us put up lights and without the snow it isn't the same. I always hated the cold weather while I lived in Canada but I wish I could have it for 3 days a year over Christmas Eve through Boxing Day! We has people over Christmas eve and I had Christmas Carols playing and they hated it so it only lasted 5 min. I love Christmas Carols and traditional things but I must be alone in that.

We had a beautiful Christmas lunch, with turkey ham and all the trimmings, by far my favorite meal of the year!

Well here are some pictures from Christmas morning!!

This was Ethan at 8:30am after we had to wake him up on Christmas morning. He slept in like a good little boy, it was Scott who w up and eager at 7:30am, haha.

I hope everyone had as Merry of a Christmas as we did!

For New Years Eve we had a very quiet night. I was pretty sick with a cold and we just watched movies and played xbox. We stayed up until midnight and went to bed, so all in all pretty average. I hope many had a more exciting one than we did.

An Update Long Overdue

Well things have been quite hectic lately and I have truly been neglecting this blog. Ethan, Scott and I are doing great. Ethan is growing up so quickly it amazes me as he is 15 months old today, where did the time go? My little man is not going to be little for much longer. Last week he got one of his molars already and he is running around, getting into everything and he is such a happy boy. He is always smiling, which I love he has such an attractive little personality and even when I am tired or grumpy he always makes me smile!

Scott and I are really looking forward to the ultrasound on Thursday to find out what the sex of the new little one is. I can't wait for Ethan to meet his new little brother or sister, he will love the playmate! I have always wanted kids close together since I was an only child for so long and although I had great cousins to play with I would have loved to have had someone to grow up with.

Scott has been away for most of this year and I am so glad he has been home for a few weeks for leave and we can have some normalcy in our lives. We had a wonderful Christmas just the three of us (which I will update with pictures) but I truely cannot wait to get to Canada for a Christmas and introduce the kids and Scott to the family and watch Ethan play in the snow.

Also I wanted to add I am so proud of myself I made it to 14 months with breastfeeding Ethan. I am very proud of that accomplishment! My original goal was 6 months, then 12 months but he stopped himself 3 weeks ago which is great because to wean him was upsetting and he made his own decision without me making him stop :)

Announcing....

Well if you have 'watched this space' I really commend you as I have been so lazy with it and have not posted in so long! Well as the title says I have an announcement.

I am Pregnant

A picture from our 12 week ultrasound!

So Scott and I are very excited to have a new additon arriving early June 2009. I am so happy to be able to give Ethan a brother/sister and a friend for life! We only tried for one cycle so it was very exciting and surprising news for us! I am currently 12 weeks and 5 days pregnant so already in my 2nd trimester!

Weaning

Well I am going to start weaning Ethan from breastfeeding and onto formula. It makes me so sad to do it, I almost feel like less of a mum (a good one anyways) for doing it. Ethan just isn't as interested during the day because the world is too exciting, there is so much for his little eyes to take in.



I have finally caved and bought his first tin of formula, and I am a little disappointed because he won't need me as much and I hate that. I love the fact that my beautiful little boy depends on me but its time to cut the cord and start to wean, very slowly. I am only going to start him off on one bottle for the first few weeks and slowly phase it out. I will keep his morning and night feed until he is 1 and then go from there.



Hopefully he is good with weaning and it isn't too hard (although I think it will be harder for me to give up than for him)

Ethan, Cheeky as usual....

Well yesterday I gave Ethan a sippy cup of milk thinking he would actually drink it. I went to go and answer the phone came back into the living room and I saw it.....he had dumped all of his milk on the floor and was proceeding to splash in while laughing. Apparently it is quite funny to make a big mess and then look cute and innocent afterwards. So of course I had to grab the camera and in true Auntie Sharron fashion take lots of pictures...you cannot miss a photo opportunity :)

Speaking of photos I am incredible I take about 10 or more everyday I think my hard drive will be full by the time Ethan is 2 years old...lol :) I am hoping to get a better camera for Christmas...someone tell Scott ha ha ha. The way I see it you can never have too many pictures and I love taking pictures of my little man!

Here is another picture of my boy trying to get the camera.....if its within his reach he thinks it his :)