can't wait!!!

For Christmas, its going to be epic this year with record number of family members attending meaning at least 40 ha half of that being kids, then its onto holiday month with a camping trip fingers crossed, the are so excited about that :) should be fun

Some recent pictures

lovely bro-in-law Shane took some pics for us...the christmassy ones will be for our card but here are some of the other ones...

more recent pictures

as you can see Ray is the clown of the family

interesting info :)

The total number of days between Wednesday, July 7th, 1982 and Thursday, October 13th, 2011 is 10,690 days.

This is equal to exactly 29 years, 3 months, and 6 days.

This does not include the end date, so it's accurate if you're measuring your age in days, or the total days between the start and end date. But if you want the duration of an event that includes both the starting date and the ending date, then it would actually be 10,691 days.

The total time span from 1982-07-07 to 2011-10-13 is 256,560 hours.

This is equivalent to 15,393,600 minutes.

You can also convert 10,690 days to 923,616,000 seconds.

and I was born on a Wednesday :)

talking...

because Roderick is 18 months and still not talking I was quite a bit concerned mainly cause even though he is a boy and they sometimes go slower I was going by Ray who has been earlier in almost everything so far to Leona and Roderick, anyway read this post below on babycenter and he does everything on it so my wonderings are gone for now ...heres hoping he starts talking soon!!! :)

Most children have learned to say at least one word by the time they're 12 months old and it's unusual for a child to not be speaking at all by 18 months. But although it's not typical, your child's situation is not necessarily cause for concern, either. Boys, especially those under two, tend to develop language skills more slowly than girls, and some more cautious and reserved children tend to wait until they understand a great deal of what they hear before they actually speak.

Look for these signs of language development:

• Does your child point? Pointing to something he wants or to pictures in a book is closely related to the beginning of actual speech.

• Does he seem to understand what you say? The ability to understand language precedes the ability to talk. If your child seems to understand a great deal of what others are saying, he's well on his way to talking.

• Does your child use gestures and facial expressions to communicate? Many children communicate what they need non-verbally, and in fact most toddlers develop a host of non-verbal signals. Until about 24 months the fact that your child is making some kind of effort to communicate is more important than a large vocabulary.

• Does your child grunt? This may seem a strange question, but new research shows that the little grunts toddlers make while pointing to pictures or playing with toys are actually a kind of commentary. Children who aren't yet talking and don't grunt are more likely to be diagnosed with a language delay later on.

If your child isn't showing these signs of language development, you may want to mention it to your health visitor at his 18-month development check. (You are responsible for taking your child to the clinic for this -- you won't be called in automatically.) In general, the earlier a language delay is detected, the easier it is to treat. Many language problems can be treated very effectively during the pre-school years leaving no long-term problems.

Read more: http://www.babycenter.com.au/toddler/development/speechandlanguage/doesnttalkexpert/#ixzz1abU4P5rj

those wisdom teeth arg!!!

I'm heaps relieved its finally out now just waiting to get past the swollen ouchy phase, didn't sleep much for the first 2 nights so the days after that were complete hell at least the first day Leona was brought home from school by a classmate and his mum which she loved, going in others ppls car is a special treat for both her and Ray :) then the next day was a teachers strike so there was no school, so no need to go out they just played computer games...now its weird cause the stitch has been in my cheek nowhere near to area they sutured and it hurts in my cheek at that spot where the knot is and only that spot is still swollen...not sure if I should clip the knot and take it out or just suffer till my checkup next Tuesday...it seems from what I have read on different online forums that the travelling of the stitches seems to be a common thing, hmmm