Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope you all have had a great holiday break. Back to the daily grind tomorrow! lol

We've had a wonderful Christmas! Matty and Becca scored very well indeed with all the presents from Christian's side of the family. Clothes, toys, books, more toys - you get the idea! Matty got a HUGE Tonka truck from Grandma and Grandad, playdoh stuff, just heaps of things. Becca got a few new outfits which is great. The size 00's are getting a bit tight around her belly! Plus she got some stacking cups, a pull along caterpillar thingie, 2 dolls, and a cd as well. Becca loves kissing people and things, and one of the dolls she was given makes kissing noises and says "I love you"! Bec thought it was wonderful, and kisses the doll every time it made the kissing noises. Everybody together now: "Awww!"

We ate way too much food! There were 15 of us for lunch at the in-laws, and we had everything - turkey, ham, pork, veges, salads, plum pudding, brandy custard, rum butter, icecream, chocolates... the list goes on! Had a sandwich for tea! We gave Matty a Raggs DVD, the book "Animalia" by Graeme Base, and some of those magnetic letters for the fridge. He loves those letters! Becca got a dress, a matching cloth nappy, and the book "Cinderella". Mum and Dad came over on Boxing Day for another feast / Christmas. More presents and more food! Christian gave me the book "Eldest", the sequal to Eragon. In hard-cover, limited edition! Its all gold and embossed etc. Looks really cool! I can't wait to start reading it, but am being good and resisting until I finish reading my current book, The Mists of Avalon.

New Years was a bit of a non-event for us. I was in bed by 10:00pm with Becca, and Christian climbed in around 11:45. Neighbours down the street let off some firecrackers at midnight, and I could hear "Happy New Year!" being yelled far in the distance, but that was about it! Damn we're getting old!

Mum and Dad are coming over for tea tonight. It's Christian's birthday tomorrow, so we're having tea with them tonight so they can give him their pressie, and going over to Christian's parents place tomorrow night (on his birthday) for tea. His cousin Robert will be up from Melbourne, so Christian's really looking forward to that! We haven't seen Robert for nearly over a year.

Oh, and another event (sort of) - today is exactly 11 years since our first date!

Becca is finally cutting her teeth!

Well, FINALLY! Becca's teeth are finally starting to come through. Her two bottom front teeth are peaking through the gums. I thought she was going to be a little gummy-bear forever!
Lets hope she doesnt decide to start biting when she's feeding though!

Matty's sick!

Poor Matty is sick! He woke up at 10:00pm last night vomiting. None of us got to bed until 2:00am this morning. He's thrown up twice today as well. He's refusing to eat, although he has been keeping down fluids so that's good. Hopefully he'll get a full night's sleep tonight. No school for him tomorrow unfortunately. Poor little bugger!

Funding Approved!!

Matty got the funding approved for AEIOU!!!! The funding covers half the amount ($7000), Centrelink picks up another huge chunk with the childcare rebate, and then with however much is left over AEIOU is going to work out fortnightly payments for us, instead of having to pay for it all upfront. Finally a break at last!!!

So happy!!! Now we know that he'll be right for all of next year. What a relief!

Well, Matty never ended up being on TV! :( What a bugger! Ah well. He's starting going there officially this week, from 9 - 12 every day. The poor kids - the four of them have never been away from their parents before, except to stay with their grandparents, so they are all feeling separation anxiety really badly! I keep trying to make it sound fun, and say things like "So you're off to school today to play with "x"". Matty shakes his head and says "No!". Its so heartbreaking dropping him off and hearing him screaming "Mummy!" as I'm walking out the door. But as hubby said, its either do it now or when he's five and about to start school!

And at least he's saying Mummy now! lol

His teachers said he had a lot of fun outside today though, playing with water etc. My parents came over this afternoon and played with him some more. The poor thing was stuffed and fell asleep on the loungeroom floor at 7:15pm!