This has been a hard week...some will call it a fantastic week though. This was the week that Auron decided to sleep through the night in his own room in his own bed. No longer does he need to come into bed with us for cuddles. Am I coping? hardly haha. He's slept in his own bed in his own room since he was about 10 months but always ended up back in bed with us half way through the night. Before this week he had only ever slept right through maybe 3 times max. I am definitely missing my cuddles at night. I've also found myself waking every hour or so at night looking for him in my bed, lol slightly depressing and strange I know. I suppose it's a good thing really seeing as we will have a new baby in a couple of months.

Aarahi had two days off work this week which was lovely. We did a few things, went to Spotlight to get some material to make blankie for new baby Grayson, bought Auron some new shoes they had been $80 each but I bought 2 pairs for $40 which I was pretty happy with. They're a good brand so will hopefully last a long time. We also had lunch at this yummy cafe, the servings were so big neither of us could finish ours even sharing with Auron. This whole outing lasted only about 90mins which was nice, any longer and I don't think I would be still standing.

I've also been busy working on making things for our new baby, along with my Nana and Aarahis mum (Nanny Kaye). My mum doesn't want me to send her any projects haha she says the crafty genes must have skipped a generation. It's nice to think that when she arrives she will have lots of little colthes and things all made by special people and all made with love. awwww.

We have used cloth nappies on Auron since he was about 7 months old and it has worked out really well so we naturally intend to use them for the new baby. Unfortunately the brand that we have at the moment have really bad reviews for newborns so we have been buying different brands and trying them out on Auron to see how well they fit...not that he's a new born or anything. The difference is actually quite noticeable and I can see how Auron's nappies wouldn't work for a young baby. We have decided to buy a set of Itti Bitti nappies. Reasons: they are really trim fitting and snug around the legs, as in Auron can wear his jeans without having to undo the top button or wear a disposable. They have really good absorbency, Auron's bum is still dry even if the nappy is wet. The bamboo absorbency pads are super soft and finally they are just ridiculously cute, so much so I can see an addiction coming on. On the downside they are a fair bit more expensive than what we have now but they seem worth it.

Anyway I wrote this about 2 weeks ago but was waiting to send it until i found my camera to put some photos on. I found the camera now just lost the cord to load the photos....ill make up for it next week.

maybe ill see if there are some old photos to put up.

Aw so yummy, can't believe this was almost a year ago now. 

A new Baby!

My sister had her baby last Friday! YEY! Baby boy number 2 arrived around 12:30pm weighing 9lb 7oz  and 57cm long. They have named him Grayson Midian Watene. He's pretty cute if I do say so myself.

I have been LOVING spending time with Auron lately. He's so much fun and such a good little boy. I have been pretty sick and sore over the past 2 weeks even getting dinner cooked or the washing hung out is a big accomplishment I doubt i will see the outside world much until after this baby is born. Even with a sick mama Auron has been happy to sit up in bed with me and reading books, watching some Sesame Street, doing his drawing and other little games he has.

It's tax time again here, it seems silly to get another tax return seeing as we only just got last years one a few months ago, but that was all spent a week later when we bought a new car. Hopefully this one is easier than last years and doesn't take 8 months to come through. This one will probably go into savings or something boring like that.

I think we have kicked the scared of baths thing in the butt. My back was killing me the other day so ran a hot bath for myself and Auron just enjoyed standing on the outside playing with the toys in the water. After about 30mins he decided he wanted in and stripped of his own clothes. He then played in the bath for another hour after I had gotten out. Success! I still don't know what his problem was. Showers are still a no go though. We will probably start swimming lessons at the start of next year hopefully he will enjoy them.

On Saturaday I was feeling somewhat good and thought we should get out and do something while we could. We just did dinner and a movie. Aarahi had gotten some movie vouchers from work so he picked to go see the new Batman movie. I was really enjoying it but only made it through 2/3 of it before I was too sore to keep sitting there so Auron and I went and hung out in the arcade while we waited for the movie to finish. It wasn't a total loss though, there was a couple playing on one of those machines where you use a claw type thing to pick up a toy an drop it in the hole. They won Auron a few toys because they thought he was cute. He was pretty happy about it, but he's a bit unsure about the Ice Age toy.


And some photos of the cute new bubba...

Before getting chopped open. I supposed one of the good things about an elective C-section is that you look good in the moments before the arrival of the baby. 

A fruit baby?

This past week I have had cravings? I dunno if i would call it cravings but an unsual desire to eat fruit! I'm not usually a fruit person, we have lots at our house because Aarahi's a bit of a fruit nut. This week though I cant seem to get enough of oranges and green apples. Also almonds....who knew those things were so good?
I finally relented this week and got some warm clothes that fit me. I thought I could get through this pregnancy/winter without having to buy any more clothes but after a week of living in my pj's and Aarahis hoodies I realised if i was ever the leave the house again I would need some new clothes. Unfortunatly all my maternity clothes from Auron are for summer so are no good to me. Lucky for me Pumpkin Patch had 50% off maternity! $150 later and I was sorted. We also picked up a cute little leather jacket for Auron for cheap. Ahhhh I love end of season sales. It's amazing hw much better I feel now that I don't look so hori.
The past month or so Auron has for some unknown reason taken a disliking to baths. He hasn't fallen over, or the water been too hot/too cold so no idea. Turns out he only wants Daddy to give him a bath. Aarahi has no problem getting him in and clean whereas he will perform so much for me that i dont even bother and just wipe him down with a wetwipe.

Our ward had a Returned Missionary Fireside last night, all the RM's brought in little keepsakes they had from their missions. One of them (Bro Kayrooz) brought along a yearbook in which Aarahi came across his oldest sisters profile! pretty cool alright.

This week we decorated a butterfly with all sorts of different things. I just cut out  a butterfly template and stuck it onto some clear duraseal 

The finished product! Now proudly hanging on the dining room wall.

Up to mischief again..... 

A whole loaf of bread with one bite taken out of each piece!

The CULPRIT!

I HATE WINTER

I think having all this cold weather I shouldn't be too surprised Auron has a yucky cold. I am pretty blessed that when he's sick he doesn't make too much of a fuss, just a extra bit clingy and sleepy. We're also lucky that the new pram we bought is a real cosy one so he doesn't get cold if we have to go out. Talking about being cold though, he's just discovered how to take his clothes off, as soon as he's dressed and I'm getting his breakfast he's stripping down. Getting him to put them back on is easy but he just takes them off again so I give up and just turn the heater on. Hopefully he doesn't decide to rip off his nappy, that could be a filthy disaster.

Come Friday last week I got struck down with the cold Auron has, it's full effect arriving on Saturday night. Auron and I skipped church and set up the lounge with matresses and mountains of pillows and tissues. Aarahi went to church saying he would probably stay a little longer and have a meeting with his  counsellors so when he arrived home barely 2 hours later I was a little surprised. Apparently church was cut short (only had sacrament meeting) because it was too cold in the chapel as the heating system was broken. It was nice to have him home to take care of me.

On Sunday morning I woke up to a rash on my hand, by the time Sunday night came my whole body was covered and itching like crazy. I had NO sleep that night. I went to the doctor the next day, turns out I'm allergic to my asthma inhaler....go figure the inhaler I've been taking for the past 23 years of my life. The problem is that when I'm sick I need my inhaler to be able to breathe so the doctor did some swapping around and gave me a different one, so far so good, I'm still covered in massive red rashes but they are going down slowly.

Well just got home from the movies, we went to see Brave. It was a really good movie, I liked it, Aarahi liked it, Auron watched the majority of it before becoming more interested in the packet of M&M's.

Auron was more than EXCITED to see Cookie Monster and Elmo on the news tonight. They were having a show here in Melbourne, I wish I had got tickets for us but Auron had no interest when they were selling the tickets. 

Reading my scriptures like a good boy

Auron loved our trip to Bunning where they had little trolleys,  he kept filling it up with all sorts of junk.

Auron's been quite interested in matching things lately...in particular shoes  so I made him some cool matching blocks out of wood (so he can't fold them and break them easily!) So far he's really enjoyed them and has found other uses for them too. I made about 12 I think.

Since I've been sick the housework has been lacking. One afternoon  I turned the vacuum cleaner on and left Auron to clean the kitchen while I had a shower. When I got out he was still going, he had done a pretty good job too I must say.  

The weeks are flying by

This year seems to be going so fast. Before I realise it's the end of the week and I have barely accomplished anything. Auron and I went to town on Thursday to return some library books and do some groceries. It was sooooooo busy! I had forgotton it was school holidays, I hate school holidays...in particular all those crazy teeny boppers lol. At least I managed to get everything done I had on my list.
I have seen some really neat things to do with Auron lately as he has been getting a bit bored with our regular activities. The first one we are trying is making some coloured rice and hiding some little "treasures" in it for him to find.  I also made some coloured pasta (I was on a roll). I bought these cool cards the other day that have photos on them of different animals which he loves to play with.
After 14 months or so Auron is actually in some kind of routine, never really bothered trying to put him into one, he's kind of just done it himself. We're down to one sleep in the afternoon, and he still wakes up once at night (pretty sure I could knock that on the head if I wanted but I kind of like it because he comes into bed with me) I actually will be pretty gutted when he decided to sleep through the night. I think I can count on one hand the times he's sleep in his own bed for a full night. What I'm most happy about is that we can just put him to bed and he doesn't make a fuss.
Aarahi took Friday off work and we did nothing, except go to the supermarket for toilet paper which we were desperately in need of after which we came home and had the most wonderful pulled pork sandwiches on homemade buns, that we are still eating today and probably tomorrow.

I was being a little too quiet...must have been up to mischief throwing eggs on the ground. I must take after my Uncle Khyber.

Doing some more paintings.

My coloured rice with some animals to play with.

I really liked mixing the colours together and scooping the rice up and putting it into different containers

This is me playing with the pasta after I had my nap. Mummy  gave me some pipe cleaners to thread on the pasta with holes in. I'm pretty good at sorting out which ones go on the pipe cleaners. When I am a bit bigger I will learn to sort my pasta into colours.

Drawing fun

This week has been cold and miserable. The washing has been hard to get dry, to the point I was running out of clothes that could fit me...not hard these days. I think perhaps investing in a dryer is something to consider especially since we use cloth nappies on Auron.
Due to the bad weather we've spent pretty much everyday inside with the heater on full. We have managed to do some fun things like painting and gluing things and lots of colouring. We have also been trying to learn about our face, eyes, ears, nose etc. Last week we managed to go to the library after my hospital visit and get out some book. Auron hasn't been too impressed with my selection and still prefers the ones we already have at home. He has a fascination with cooking books too...takes after his mama there.
Auron is finally starting to talk! YEY! I know he understands a lot when we talk to him but he's never really made any effort to actually talk aside from calling out to 'dad'. His second word after 'dad' has been 'thank you' haha pretty proud of that one!
The end of June is the end of the financial year in Australia. The big retail stores usually have huge sales, mostly on toys but other stuff too. LAst night we went out to see if there was anything we might want to get for Chirstmas and ended up doing all our christmas shopping. Auron was a bit upset when he saw me put the cool new toys away but he came right when he saw the Sesame Street DVD daddy said he could have now.
My faithful hair straightner has been broken for awhile now, despite all the banging it on things it just didnt want to work anymore. Aarahi has been hasseling me to get a new one for a few months but being one who finds it difficult to spend money on myself i've kept putting it off, until yesterday when being the lovely husband he is dragged me into the hair shop. The intent was to by a GHD but on talking to the hairdresser and trying a few out we settled for a Baybliss, lol $3 cheaper! I love it! It's easy to use and works FAST, like 10mins to do my hair which is ridiculously long and thick.

Back on Track (written 2 weeks ago almost)

I haven't written a post in a while seeing as I broken the charger to the laptop and have been too slack to go get a new one...really I just didn't want to have to pay the $100 for a new one, but we are now back up and running again.
Well lots to catch up on. First of all Aarahi's mum and brother Haroma came over for a week I was still in NZ when they arrived but that didn't matter. They were over for a wedding of one of the boys from back in Tauranga. Haroma was best man and Aarahi groomsman (which he only found out like 4 days before the wedding haha). They said the wedding was lovely, you can't really get much out of boys about weddings though other than what they had to eat.
Nanny Kaye was able to go visit with her sister who happens to live in Melbourne aswell while she was here which was nice for her I'm sure. As for the rest of the week they were here we were actually pretty boring, went to IKEA and Scienceworks one day. Science works was pretty fun, if you were like a 8 year old kid, especially a boy you would totally be in your element. We also went bowling one day, I don't bowl well at all and had a dismal score (I blame it on being pregnant) so I let Auron replace me on the second round he did pretty well with his little ramp thing and was only 1 behind Uncle Haroma at the end of the round. On the last day they were here I had well and truly exhausted myself and couldn't bring myself to do anything. Haroma went into the city to see one of his friends though. Later that night we dropped them off at the airport. It was sad to see them go, especially since we know we wont be getting back home for awhile now.
The whole next week I spent recovering from travelling and being so non-stop busy. Auron always takes a few days to get back to normal after a trip away. He has to come back to reality that he's not the centre of the universe and that if he wont eat his eat dinner there's no one who's going to let him eat grapes and chocolate pudding instead!
It was my birthday at some point in all of this, to which we nothing for. I didn't even bother getting out of my pj's all day. Although I did get some lovely bracelet charms and some yummy bubble bath.
The next week ...this past week was queens birthday weekend. For some reason its a week later here than in NZ. I was finally feeling up to leaving the house. We went to look around at the shopping centre where we want to move. While we were there we found Hog's Breath restaurant. We had really wanted to go there while we were living in Brisbane but couldn't afford to so we took the opportunity to have lunch there. IT WAS SO GOOD! Even Auron ate an entire kids meal, for some reason he screwed his nose up at the lunch I had packed him when he saw our food (to be fair it was a pretty unappetising packed lunch)
The rest of the week just went by as usual. This morning we headed back out the same way to go to an open house, it was a nice house but too small for us. There was another house in the same complex that was available too which is about 3 times bigger so will probably look into that. After we went back to the shopping centre did some shopping had some lunch and finally made it home. I am totally ready to go to bed now.

At the Science Museum, of all the cool things to do all he wanted to play on were the big red chairs 

Ooooo so many pretty balls

Daddy helped me line up my ramp just right

See that! just about bet Uncle Haroma

"helping" mama sort out clothes for the new baby