Round-Up~ December 2011

On our bookshelf this month....

Merenia is reading for the Premiers Reading Challenge of the holidays and the book "Girl's Stuff" by Caz Cooke. 
I have been reading Baby Led Weaning, Creating Keepsakes and Better Homes and Gardens- I love their December and Christmas Issues.
Will has been into the Octonauts.
Kieran is doing Harry Potter, again.
Les has been reading the internet more than anything else.
Tama eats his books more than he reads them.

Loving on the box....

Survivor, Octonauts, Offspring, Spicks and Specks, Letters and Numbers, Dr Who, Kung Fu Hustle, and Tim Minchin Vs. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

For you...For me?

Will had his birthday and got a lot of cool stuff and cash (One of the advantages of living away from everyone!)We all got cool stuff from Les' trip to Aberdeen. We sent pressies home to Ehren, Vienna, and the Seelen-Smiths. And then there was Christmas the high lights of which were: G- Phone, Starbucks pressie! L- Model Aircraft, K- Wii Games, M- Almost completing her Schleich Horse collection, W- Play Kitchen and Blower, T- Dragon Puppet and Christmas Eve Dinner.

Germs and bugs and botherations....

Will, Tama and I all got a coldy flu-y thing. Whilst mine and Will's were horrible and crappy mine went away. Whereas Will's cough we think is actually Whooping Cough, and we think Merenia also has it too. Poor Will has ended up coughing so much some nights that he has thrown up. He is way past the contagious stage now so on the upside Tama has managed to avoid it, but on the downside we still probably have a few weeks more of coughing.

Today was good today was fun, tomorrow is another one...

•  Going to Adventure world for the Bristow Family Christmas Day Out.
• Merenia had a class party.
• Bristow Grown-up's Christmas Work 'do'.
• Wattle Grove Presentation Evening.
• Les and I went shopping with just the little boys- Will went to sleep in the car so we got Smoothies and ate them at Tomato Lake.
• The day our Air con got installed.
• Les finally getting home from Aberdeen was a good one, especially for a much relieved almost 4 year old. 
• His best day would have been his birthday though. 
• And his third best day this month was finishing up at his pre-school Smarties which he hated with a passion. 
• Christmas day was great. 
• Les and Kieran went to the driving range.
• Les got out for a game of Golf (almost killed himself too)
• Les and the kids enjoyed a day out at Pools, playground and Aviation Museum.

Yum, yum, yum....

• Will requested Banana Cake for his birthday.
• Our haul from the Kiwi shop especially Tuimato Sauce and some good kiwi lollies and drink.
• Summer fruit.
• Christmas Dinner.
• And for Tama food full stop- Roast Chicken and Beef, Kumara, Nectarine, bread sticks, raisin toast, broccoli, schnitzel and anything else he can wrap his little fat hand around.
  

'It was on sale'....

We upgraded our Camera as an early Christmas Present to ourselves we now have a Canon 550D. I brought myself two 'Big Picture' Classes: One Little Word with Ali Edwards and Move More, Eat Less with Cathy Zielske.

Bugger!

Will's cough is about the only down side this month. Our lawn is looking a little brown but hopefully will green up once summer is done.

Hooray!

Will's new Pre-school is much better. My package from Starbucks was AWESOME. My word for 2012 coming to me without any effort on my part- Simple. Nice relaxed Christmas! No fillings for Kieran at the dentist and his partial denture which had chipped- fixed for free. And the dentist also got Will in the chair for free and he let her have a great look around- awesome! Air-con- thank freakin' goodness!

Etc...

Will and Les have been playing their own version of letters and numbers and Will called an awesome word for the combination of letters Les gave him on the etch-a-sketch: Hibernation! The funny thing was all but one of the letters were on the board.

You know who's good idea this was? Katie The Scrapbook Lady. Go check out her list of tasks to do at the end of each month as well.

♥