Daddy and DS2

Potato patch treasures!

Here's Lucas and me with the newly dug spuds.

It was very exciting and only one very small potato had a bit of scale and a bug in it. ALL the others were perfect!!
There were massive ones that barely fit into my hand and teeny tiny ones that we ate as a salad the first night.


I planted 2 kilos of seed potato and we harvested a whopping 7 kilos! So we'll be fine for the next month or two. I'm definately doing that again.

TIP: to anyone who's considering growing spuds. Let the tops die off completely and you'll have the best chance of really big potatoes. We picked the potatoes in the styrofoam boxes a little early when the tops were just half dead and they were all small to medium.

Smiley Riley

Riley started smiling a few days ago - hop skip jump- went my heart. He's soooo beautiful I love every minute with him and now he's two months I'm still finding it really hard to part with him even for a few minutes to let someone have a cuddle.


Ok so it's hard to get him to smile for the camera... I tried!

Give me wings and I'll.... swim.

Yesterday I got to witness Lucas' swimming skills. He and Daddy have been going swimming 1-3 times a week and they both love it. This new job sure has its perks - lots of Father-Son time.





..and he swam all the way to the side on his own.

Little Smile

Family Photos II

Family Photos

My boys

Everyone loves the new rocking chair


New haircut (we call it the bath time hack.. which turned out better than expected)

Uncle Pete!

Hi Uncle Pete, these pics are for you from Mum aka Nanny. No-one would keep still so they're not all that good.

"Ninni" and "Gra-gra" having fun time with Lucas jumping on the bed.





You can see that Lucas couldn't take his eyes off himself in the mirror - haha.

Here's one of little Riley looking ever so peaceful and nicely chubby. He's packed on the weight more than Lucas did at his age. Lucas was a bit of a serious puker.

Riley Photo Shoot

sMASHing good fun

There is so much anticipation when digging up a potato crop - will there be HEAPS and HEAPS? Will they all be tiny or rotten and a complete disappointment?

Box 1, spuds in situ.

I had put three small seed potatoes in each styrofoam box and ended up getting about 4 1/2 kilos in total.
To be totally honest, I'm not sure if that's a good crop or not. Since we ended up with 3 1/2 kilos more that we started with I suppose we can count that as a success story.

I can't wait to dig up the big potato plot in the garden!! I think I'll leave them slightly longer (until the tops have completely died off) then hopefully they'll be bigger.

JESSIE, they've completely filled that potato bag you sent and then some! What good timing :o)

Zink, Ink or Stink - all are hard to get off the carpet

So Lucas wonders off and is quite for longer than normal.
I said to Suzi "Have you seen Lucas, he is very quite?"
After a brief search I found him in the dinning room with a tube of zinc bloc.
Advice to you all : CARPET DOES NOT LIKE ZINC!

Qui-chee

Lucas has had lots of fun looking at the Christmas trees (qui-chee) in the shopping centre and has been wishing everyone we meet a merry qui-chee.

These are the Christmas stockings I made for us. They're not finished but they worked well enough for this year. I need to get our names embroidered (or something) at the top and sew the bells on.
I ran out of material for Riley's one, but he didn't seem too bothered. He'll have a gingerbread man on his.
Lucas has the reindeer, I have the Christmas tree and Steve has the Pudding.


One of the toys I'd bought Lucas was a tool kit. Since Christmas day all we've heard is the continuous buzzing of his little toy drill. Of course he insists on using it with the goggles on ("geegogeego").

Christmas Day on the Job

Duncan at North Head overlooking Sydney

After a busy night shift on the way home.