January 2007

What a month January has been! It's been great having Phil on holidays for the last 5 weeks, but I'm kinda glad he's gone back to work now as he is as demanding as Solomon on some days. He constantly needs to be entertained! So, we went camping over new years as I mentioned in my previous blog and afterwards we had a week in Canberra and then we went to Bathurst for a retreat called Summer School that our church was running for the week. It was a great week, particularly since we didn't do a whole lot. Our mornings were spent doing lectures or looking after Solomon and the afternoons consisted of swimming in the schools 50 metre pool, which was wonderful as the days were all above 30 degrees.

During the week in Bathurst we realised we didn't have to be back in Canberra for anything so we decided to spend a couple of days in Sydney. So we drove to Sydney on the Sunday afternoon, straight from Bathurst, and stayed with Phil's cousins in Homebush Bay.

Over the next few days we spent shopping and swimming in Manly (we also ran into our next door neighbour John running along Manly beach!), we went shopping at Ikea and visited friends in Baulkum Hills. But the highlight was catching up with my Uncle Dan and his family as my Granma was spending a few days with them from Brisbane, which was very exciting.

We got home and life was spent getting Phil ready for school and trying to get back into some routine. Phil is back at school now and I'm left wondering what I can do as with Phil at home there was always something to do. Oh well, we'll see what this year brings!

Solomon with Louis & Riley

Solomon's First Christmas & Camping

Since last time I've blogged life has been pretty busy. I did all my Christmas shopping pretty early because I can not stand going into busy shopping centres. But it was also good as I could spend more time doing other things, such as making Solomon his Santa sack, where every year I'm going to get him to put his hand print on it.

Christmas day was pretty good too. We spent most of the day at Phil's parents house, where we had breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was a pretty relaxing day and Solomon got some great stuff. Santa brought him a Raiders Jersey and shorts, a Quicksilver hoody beach towel and some bath toys.

Solomon on Christmas morning after Santa had visited.

On Boxing Day Phil, Solomon and I headed to Racecourse Beach on the South Coast to go camping in tents for 8 nights. The first night was just us and the next day some of the boys Phil went to school with and thier girlfriends joined us. We had a really great week with Solomon obtaining 3 new Dads, as the boys decided they wanted to be his dad too. New Years Eve went off with the fireworks at the beach although there were a few headaches the next morning. The ocean was freezing cold so we didn't go in very often but luckily the park where we stayed had a pool, so Solly had a couple of dips in there.

It was unbelievable how well behaved Solomon was. He slept like an angel and was loved by everyone who was shocked how placid he was, except for the last night we were there (2nd January) he woke up at 4am because he got his FIRST TOOTH (bottom left)!!!

We had a drama on the day before we were supposed to leave as the caravan park double booked for our last night and we got an abusive phonecall at 1pm saying we had to be out within the next 40 minutes as there were people waiting to use our site. After a quick pack up we decided not to go home a night early, so instead we went and stayed with Phils sister further down the coast.

We got back on the 3rd January at about lunchtime, did 8 loads of washing and then the next morning at 6am we travelled to Sydney so Phil and some of the boys he went to school with could go and watch day 3 of the Ashes test match. We got there with a little bit of a hassle and then we split with the boys as they headed to the SCG and the girlfriends, Solomon and I spent the next 7 hours shopping in Sydney city. We has such a great day. Once again Solomon did really well. I'm so blessed to have such a wonderful, easy going baby!