Coming home...

A bit of a belated post. but nevertheless... The kids have loved Nicholas, and even in just the past 2 days Daniel has taken an increased interest in him. Laura kisses his head all the time. I love it and hope it lasts. Here's a selection of photos from the past 3 weeks: On our last night before leaving the hospital for the reality of home... hands tucked up by his little red newborn face - so cute... Leaving the hospital with all 3 kids... No, this isn't a picture of Laura, it is her sharing her blanket with Nicholas, a high honour that he hasn't the slightest clue about! Nicholas telling Grandma all about the 5 days of his life that she missed - this is us picking them up from the airport... The siblings having a chat... Hey Transformer, can't you transform that baby into one that's not crying? Alice in Wonderland taking a walk to the park with Grandpa, while Daniel the Transformer stayed behind because he didn't want to change out of his Transformer costume... Nicholas at 10 days old Daniel captured Laura's 'mad face'. It can be real or pretend from moment to moment. This one's pretend, I think. 3 kids in the bath! Well, sort of...

Nicholas

Welcome to our family little boy. Nicholas Andrew Sypkes Born 8th October, 2008 (happy shared birthday Oma!) 3.04am 3.7 kgs/8 lbs 2 oz 53 cm long

We're still here...

So 3 weeks without blogging or emailing really does funny things to a person. Kind of makes me like this life without computers and being online all day... I've gotten a lot of other things done! :) But anyway, we have moved in and feel very settled, the kids LOVE having a playroom, and their bedroom has even had a bit of decorating done to it this past weekend (thanks Penny, I never would have done it without you!!). I'm officially due in 3 days, but no sign of anything, and I don't really expect anything to happen until a few days afterwards, but stay tuned. And apologies to EVERYONE who's emailed and wondered if I've already had the baby. I will try my best to get replies written in the next few days provided there are no interruptions of the labour kind!

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Hanging out in the playroom...

Outdoors...

Very popular Buzz and Alice in Wonderland costumes courtesy of Shaz and Stu - much less laundry to do now that they wear these nearly every day!

... and of course Laura has to try out Buzz too!

"Baddie suits" with Ollie (Superhero-Batman-Tranformer-Baddie is very powerful!)

Tigger with a tutu...

Too funny - Laura stayed asleep for ages on my nearly 9-month prego belly yesterday after being brought in, asleep, from the car...

Quick photos yesterday outside our place

Fun times...

36 weeks pregnant and moving in...

We move in tomorrow, all going well... I don't imagine I'll get back to blogging in the next week or so. I did take an 8-month pregnancy photo, but it's getting scarier to post them, and since I'm still not blogging from my own computer, I can't be bothered doing the work to get the photo to this computer, so just believe me, i'm growing!

Quotes

L: "Mummy, I'm frustrate." M: "Really? Why?" L: "Cause Daniel was coming to get me." (I think she uses big words in context surprisingly well for just 2 yrs old, but I guess she hears us use them with Daniel...) ---- D: "I only like nice mommies and nice daddies." ---- (just a few minutes ago) D: "The thing is mom, when you put me in my room, I don't like you. When you don't put me in my room, i DO like you! When you put me in time out, I don't like you. When you don't, I do like you." (okay Daniel, I get the picture!... I'll spare the readers the details of the follow-up talk which went something like "Well I love you Daniel, even when you...") ---- (when I came back to the car after the kids had been sitting in there for a minute by themselves...) D: "Okay, now I'm not in charge." (typical eldest child, hey?! no one needed to tell him he was the boss, he just assumed it!)

Tigers at 10

2 kids went to bed at 8:00.

2 tigers emerged from downstairs (1 little one roaring hyperactively) at 10:00.

I couldn't stop the laughter.

This took some serious time, and we had heard nothing, and it was 10pm!!

I took a few more photos after they actually went to bed...

next month

yay, today is sept 1st, so that means that next month we'll have this baby. doesn't seem so far away now...

Missing the cousins

We miss you Erica, Chris, Jake, Ryan, Nathan, Isaac, Amanda! Daniel regularly prays for "all my friends and cousins", and with the time it takes to make new kid-friends (we do finally have a couple close by!), we just miss the ease of a quick flight to Oregon to play with cousins...

girlfriends

2 nights. 3 days. no kids. no agenda. lots of food. lots of talking. lots of listening. :) both charlie's angels movies. sunshine. quiet mornings. mud masks (please no comments!). only a couple pictures. gotta love girls weekends.

Skater boy

This picture makes me want to sing, "he was a skater boy, she said see ya later boy..." i think it's the beanie on him and the black boots on her...