Wow...so this picture is telling me that I *really* need to get something up on that wall above our bed!!! And next time I take a photo of said bed, I really should put more effort into making it!
Disclaimer: That is Simon's bedside table you can see...mine has a lot more than an external hard drive and a laptop on it!!
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So it may be pathetic of me, but for the last 2½ years my brother and sister-in-law (they live in the Gold Coast) have been promising to come to Adelaide to visit us. They haven't visited us once, yet we have been up to visit them three, maybe four, times since we moved here from New Zealand. Their excuse is always that they can't afford it. Last night they say they are upgrading their car. Today, my sister-in-law announces that she is taking their little boy to NZ for a long weekend. So much for being broke.
It upsets me so much because it feels like we really aren't important to them at all. Take Kason and Cohen's 1st birthday, for example. My sister-in-law promised me that she and lil man would be here for the boys' birthday. The day I was expecting them to give me all their flight details, she has my brother tell me that they have booked tickets for all three of them to go to New Zealand for two weeks instead. Yeah...I'm not trusting their promises anymore. And I am so, so over it.
Just feeling super hurt right now.
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Again with the lack of blogging! My only excuse is that Cohen and Kason have really been challenging me this last week. It just might have something to do with all the new words that they are {finally!} starting to come out with! It's such a relief that they are starting to say more, and that they are putting more words together...just tonight Kason asked for "more cheese, please Mummy"! And they can both say almost every letter of the alphabet (repeating after us, but still, that's huge for them!)...it is SO super cute when Cohen says the letter 'L'!
Kason misses his Nana quite a bit, I think. Just randomly he will say, "I love Nana", and every night when I get him out of the bath, he excitedly calls for Nana, expecting her to be waiting in the lounge for him. It's things like that that make me sad that we live so far away from my parents and that we don't see them very often, but it also shows me that despite that, he knows who his grandparents are and he loves them. We Skype them at least once a week, and both boys have started wanting to show Nana and Grumps everything! They 'give' them cups of coffee from their pretend kitchen, and throw them balls to catch. They get so excited when I ask if they want to Skype Nana and Grumps, it's so precious.
Anyways, we've had a really good day today, and we're up to FOUR days of naps, IN A ROW!!! This is unheard of in the last couple of months, and it's so, so nice!! Here's hoping it continues J
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Kason sat down on his step this afternoon and asked me to get my camera and take his picture. While I got it, he asked Cohen to come and sit next to him - they are so, so sweet :-)
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(P.S. There is a REALLY good reason for Kason wearing overalls over his jersey!)
My Mum gave Kason and Cohen a slinky each when she was over last month. They both LOVE them, and tonight Kason was having lots of fun with them!
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Yellow buttons! I've been making some new cot rail covers for Kason and Cohen's cots to match their new Wiggles sheets and duvet, so needed some yellow buttons :-)
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We've actually only just put our clock back up. We're doing a bit of a reshuffle of things at the moment, and finally had a good spot to put it! (The clock isn't dirty, by the way, the mark is on my camera lens!)
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This is (obviously) the door to Kason & Cohen's room! The little clowns hanging on it are from their Nana H - Simon's Mum. The boys LOVE them!
I had great intentions to get an awesome picture of an awesome cellar door at a winery today...but it just didn't happen, even though we were there!
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We had a great long weekend, and the best part was just hanging out with this boy, his brother, and their Daddy <3
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We had lots of fun playing outside today! This is Cohen riding his bike, wearing his new zebra hat he got for his birthday :-)
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I love that the boys enjoy sitting up on the couch and reading books that they have chosen from their little reading corner :-)
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Because Kason and Cohen are a bit delayed in their speech, we have taught them some Australian Sign Language. This is Kason making the sign for 'help'.
It has made our lives so much easier, and, I think, encouraged their speech as well :-)
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| Kason & Cohen |
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| Bison |
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| White Rhinos |
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| Me, Kason, Cohen & Simon |
