Matthews Family: Lili Turns ONE!

Yesterday was Lili's birthday! I can hardly believe it. Lili is absolutely delicious sometimes we let her get up at 4am because she is just to cute to put back to sleep. Her adorableness means she gets away with way too much. Lili is very much a daddy's girl most of the time, especially now that I'm not nursing her any more. She certainly has him wrapped around her little finger, although he would say other wise. She is definitely a girl with an attitude, everything is when and how she wants or she will sulk. We love her so much and it is such a pleasure watching her grow.

She didn't get much for her birthday, a shape sorter, some new clothes a new book and a little knife and fork set. The utensils were the favourite by far. Tonight I made her favourite dinner of homemade chicken nuggets with chips and salad. Auron was pretty happy as this is his favourite too. Then we let her eat her cake that I ended up buying because I ran out of time today. I had big plans that just didn't happen....but I did get 6 loads of laundry done. Auron fell asleep at the table while eating dinner and missed out on cake. Since Auron was asleep by 630pm Lili got our undivided attention and best of all got to play with the toys that Auron is usually guarding with his life.

In other family news, we just came back from a quick trip back to NZ. Third time this year! We left Melbourne late Wednesday night and flew back in Sunday night. When we arrived home we noticed that our landlord, who had been doing some work on the house while we were away had "fixed" our screen door which was now jammed shut and resulting in us being locked out of our house at midnight. We managed to break in through one of the windows. Everyone then went promptly to bed. Aarahi woke up a few hours later and went to work, which turned out to be one of the longest days this year. Despite all crappy travelling and flights we missed it was honestly the best trip we have taken. We loved the time we spent with our family, we are so blessed to be a part of such a huge and wonderful family. It was nice and relaxing, since we were only there for a few days we didn't feel the pressure to try and see everyone as it obviously just wouldn't have happened. The reason for the trip back was to attend Aarahi's sisters baptism. It was a wonderful and spiritual event I am sure no one who was there will forget. We feel so blessed that we were able to attend.

This weekend is pretty busy for us. I have a relief society activity I need to help out at. Something to do with making Christmas cards. We also have a 21st, Melbourne Cup, and a farewell party. Melbourne cup day is a public holiday here in Melbourne. I think it's quite amusing to have a holiday to watch a horse race, not that we're complaining.