Taking this opportunity to post a few recent that photos of Zoe that I'd intended to have printed and posted to family with Christmas cards. Oops! Have also included one from this week, after we put the Christmas tree up for the second time this year (on account of removing all the furniture to the bedrooms for a week so the living areas could be tiled). The Christmas tree is one that we put up every year since I was born so it is more than 34 years old. Apparently Pa Hemmings worked in a factory in Sydney that made them, so Mum used to say that 'Pa made the Christmas tree', which is a nice take on the true story, I guess.
Two quick stories I've been wanting to tell about Zoe here - one funny and the other not so. The first is that, while being changed on our bed a couple of weeks ago, Zoe ask 'what's that Mum?', pointing at the ceiling. She'd spotted a gecko. We hear them all the time but had never seen one linger for so long, so I called Ewan to come for a look. As he was chasing it around the room it jumped (they have awesome 'flying skills') and landed spreadeagled and right way up on Zoe's bare belly. She didn't seem to notice and I was in shock, and then just started laughing before brushing it off on to the floor. I think the gecko is still lingering in the bedroom, but I like to think it found it's mate outside under the eaves somewhere, which is where they seem to live.
My second story is that Zoe managed to climb out of her cot a few nights ago, and clearly fell head first over the side. Ewan went in to investigate the ruckus, and she was walking out of the room with blood, from seemed like a cut to her gums, around her mouth. Of course, we were as upset as she was, and since that night she has refused to sleep anywhere but our bed or her pram, which she is getting a little too big for. I did try her in the cot the next night, but caught her trying to 'escape', so that I think is the end of that. I'd guess that she has spent maybe one of her 21 months sleeping through in the cot. This now means that I need to lie down with her in out bed to get her to sleep, and the obvious thing to do is for me to stay there (Noah and Erica, I know you understand all of this!), but her 7-730pm bedtime will need to be revisted. Despite all of this, we're just very grateful that she didn't break any bones.
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Happy Christmas and New Year, Sharen, Ewan and Zoe! While Maya has always slept in bed with us at night, until recently we could always get her to have her day naps (now 'nap) in her pram - but no such luck now! So, we have to lie down with her in our bed to get her to have her day nap now ... oh well, forces me to have a momentary rest! Pictures of your house and garden look great ... hope you guys can come and visit us in Barkers Vale over the break - when do you go back to the uni? I'm not back until mid-Jan. Erica xox
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