Catching up!

It's been a while since I had time to sit down and blog. Having a baby who seems to have suddenly discovered the world means I am never still for very long, and since my computer is painfully slow I need a good chunk of time if I intend to download photos. This morning however my hubby is at work for a few hours, Jaden is with his other side of the family and Bethany was asleep when I started (she is not anymore, but is trapped in her play gym thing for the moment!), so I can finally catch up!!

The photos seem a bit higgeldy piggeldy, I normally have it set on the centre button but it obviously changed itself and I didn't notice, oh well. What you can see in our dish rack is our very first produce from our garden. A lovely lettuce, picked, washed and ready to eat. Unfortunately this is the only one we got to pick like that cause we obviously did something wrong and the rest 'went to seed' and started growing up like a stalk and then dying off. Brett's dad has given us some manure for the garden and some more lettuce seedlings, so we may try again. Our pumpkin seems to finally have one vegetable actually growing. We have been trying to pollinate them as we see the female flowers opening, but with limited success so far, hopefully this 1 little pumpkin will grow!!! You can also see some of our 'festival of flowers', which seems to have new colours and flowers ever day.

We have another grogeous sunflower that opened up this morning and our corn is growing quite a few cobs, not sure if you can really see it in the photo or not but there's cobs hiding under the leaves there, YAY!!!

Onto other things we've been doing lately. Brett has done a lot of overtime in the past few weeks so we felt inspired to spend what we would normally spend ourselves on groceries in a week on groceries for another family and make a christmas hamper. Jaden was very excited at this christmas project and since we have had chrisco and castle hampers in the past where you get a list that you check off as you unpack things he decided we needed to make a list to give them too, very cute.

We packed it all into boxes with a chrissy gift for the kids too and went as a family to deliver it, it was heaps of fun and I know it really blessed the family, but I also love the fact that it reminded my son that christmas is not all about 'I want' and 'what I can get', and he really got into the idea of giving to others generously!

We haven't done much science this term apart from our garden, the first trimester of my pregnancy only left me with the energy for the basics of school, but I am 15 weeks now and apart from an ear infection this week have been feeling a lot better, so we are 'experimenting' again. Yesterday Jaden wanted to crush a can like he'd read in a book. So we put water in it, I heated it over the stove and then you turn it upside down into a bowl of cold water. We didn't capture the exact moment it crushed itself on camera cause it happened so quick. It made a big bang and Jaden thought it was great. He has now decided any time we have a can of drink (which is rarely), we should do this before recycling it.

Miss Bethany will be 9 months old in a couple of days and has all of a sudden become so much more active and independant. She has stood up holding onto things a couple of times in the last 2 days, which is a little scary in a house that is all floorboards and slate tiles so no doubt there will be more bumps and bruises like the one she copped on her forehead from the edge of the lounge the other day.

Part of her budding independance is that she doesn't let me feed her much anymore and wants to do it herself, I have given her an extra spoon a few times and let her think she was doing it herself but yesterday I let her have a go. She actually did get a few spoonfuls into her mouth before she decided to put the bowl in her lap and finger paint with the sweet potato. She went straight from the high chair to the bath but she was very happy :-)

Well that's us at the moment, must dash now and rescue the baby who is most unhappy at not being able to escape and explore and who smells a tad suspicious as well.