happenings

Josh is here in the study with me, singing 'Lance the Turtle' and drawing pictures of grass for Nicholas. Very sweet. He wants to write a message to Nicholas to tell him he loves him, and also for Matthew (who's getting a picture of grass too). I'm not sure what the fascination is with grass right now, but he's said it's like our grass here at home. And when I asked him why he's drawing grass, he just says, 'Cause I am' with a slight inflection on the am that sounds really cute, as if everyone draws pictures of grass for their friends. Then he became the postie, folded up the 'letters' and asked for an elastic band to go round them all like the postie does. I love his pretend play.

We've had a relatively quiet yet productive day at home. Aaron has today and tomorrow off and I LOVE having him home when we can just potter around together, spending time with the boys and enjoying each other's company. We left the boys with mum this morning and went grocery shopping together. We used to shop together all the time before we had kids :) we make a good team, especially in Aldi!! lol

We went away to Tumut over the weekend for our local youth camp. We were anticipating snow up there but it actually seemed like nicer weather than what we'd left behind in Canberra!! Josh spent as much time outside playing as possible, TOTALLY loved the trampoline (which gets me thinking about Christmas...altho they're so expensive) and I enjoyed just relaxing a little and not constantly checking on him. I can't believe my baby is at the age where I can pretty much trust him to play outside without running off or doing *too much* crazy stuff. He did get on the trampoline with 'big Josh' after I'd told him not to (cause Josh was jumping everyone really high and I had thoughts of broken bones...) and came running inside scared of how high Josh had jumped him. But that was pretty much it for dramas, praise God!

We had a good time overall, enjoyed the preaching, fellowship and a little time away. We took both the camera and the video camera, and didn't take a single photo or video!! Unbelievable for me :( Then we missed the turnoff on the way home and added almost an hour to our return trip!! lol, we were both so cranky about it, especially with petrol prices right now and we ended up being late to church too. Oh well, just one of those things that happen sometimes I guess...

A nice week ahead for us, including another whole day with Aaron home and a visit to the reptile centre out at gold creek (with a little drop in to the scrapbooking shop and other shops out there too of course...!).

and, I'm very proud of mum who also just got a promotion - to level 2 on her ward at the hospital. Cool huh?!