Rat(bag) in a Hat & General Update

How cheeky is this boy! He was just out of the bath and he grabs his sisters hat from the washing basket and goes for a run. Not the best taken shot, but it is hard taking pics with a toddler running straight at you! That is my excuse and I am sticking too it. I have played a little in photoshop to sharpen it a bit etc so it looks a bit better now than it did.

Poor little man has a strange rash on his belly. As far as I can figure it is from something he had in contact with. Considering he has been wearing singlets apart from when he is in the bath the only thing I can think of is that this particular singlet which was amongst some clothes that I had put away from last winter, came into contact with something that didn’t agree with Kyan. It is clearing up now thank goodness. It was pretty nasty on the first day so I washed the singlet so hopefully it won’t re-appear. It stops right at his nappy line.

He is now officially weaned! I am kinda sad but it has been soooo good to be able to have dairy again. I have been really naughty and enjoying a few treats I haven’t been able to have for a while but I am going to have to  start concentrating on weightloss in the not to distant future.

I have been trying to think of things I can do in our new pool when we move to help my weightloss efforts apart from lap swimming which I am not too keen on. So far I have thought of aqua aerobics but doing it on my own doesn’t really appeal to me. Will have to find a way to make it interesting.

Jaz can now swim the width of the pool at swimming lessons on her own, well she has been doing so for a while in fact, but it is only this week where she has the confidence to say she can do it and is excited by that fact. I spoke to her swimming instructor who at first wanted to keep her in level 2 another term to strengthen her swimming but when I told her we were moving to the coast at the end of the year where we would have our own pool she said to put her into level 3 to get her started on her breathing etc. At the moment she has to dog paddle to get a breath so it will be good for her to have two terms of more advanced swimming before we move.

I have been insanely busy the past week or so.. I just can’t seem to get much done on days where we have an outing. I had something on every day last week and some days several things on. Then Mum came for the long weekend (while Dad played Bridge in Cairns) which was lovely. It gave us a chance to go to the movies which as great!  I also took Jaz to see Cars on Monday with some cheap tickets we got through her kindy.

Jaz had a nasty virus last week. I had to pick her up from kindy early which is highly unusual. You know she is sick when she wants to come home from kindy!

Jaz is gradually getting used to the idea of moving to the coast. She is loving the idea of having a NEW strawberry shortcake room and being close to Oma and Opa and having all her toys there etc. She asked if were taking our dog as she would be lonely otherwise. I told her of course we would. I am hoping that her hips might not be as bad in the warmer climate. Hopefully the hill the yard is on won’t cause her too much grief.

She is still upset at the idea of not going to the same school as her friends but I told her we may be able to get them to come and visit. The Mother of one of her friends, goes to the coast on a regular basis and said she may visit, so I hope I can get them to come. I haven’t had a chance to speak to the Mum of her friends (twins) from kindy.  I am hoping they go to the coast now and again on holidays, or that they might be willing to come and stay for a weekend at some stage.

I feel fairly confident that once she starts making friends at her new school she will adjust ok, but until then I hope I can keep her happy with the idea of some of her friends visiting.. and hopefully they will!

Ok, enough rambling, I am falling so far behind on things, I need to get some stuff done for a change!