Jett's first pet

Jett has just started getting into beetles, spiders (eeek), ants and other creepy crawlies! This morning we found a lady beetle and he was desperate to have it on his hand and watch it crawl up his arm - he got a bit upset when it fell off or flew away so we had to keep looking for the poor little beetle.......

29 November 2008

Playing together.......??

The other night, we were all playing trains before the boys went to bed (we do this just about every night!) when Jett wanted to share his trains with Ollie (he's quite a generous little kid) and they were piled high on his little tummy! I had to ask Jett to stop before Ollie got squashed.......

PS Ignore the scary looking Mummy in the photo!

Our boys...

Here's a couple of recent photos of the boys that say so much about them - the one of Jett helping mow the lawn is quite typical of him.....he loves big, loud machinery and in this case, it's the lawn mower! We can't do anything around the house with lawn mowers, whipper snippers, vacuum cleaners, beaters etc without him coming along to help out - very cute (but also makes things sooo much slower - ha).

The other photo is a recent one of Jett and Ollie - Jett adores Ollie and you can see that in the photo. He has never done anything to hurt him (except maybe kick him in the head when he's been trying to get a bit too close) but he really is good to his baby brother! You can tell Ollie loves Jett - when he hears or see Jett, his little face lights up.....he smiles a big gummy smile and gets these gorgeous smile lines around his eyes - he brings meaning to the term 'smiling with his eyes'. We feel extremely lucky to have our 2 healthy little boys and (touch wood) both of them have been really great sleepers.....a typical night for Ollie is to go down around 7pm and then wake me for a drink around 4-5am......I'll often stay up after this feed and go for a walk which is such a nice way to start the day! There are baby swans (signets) down at the lake at the moment and I love to see how they're growing :)

Holiday in Noosa

We've just come back from 5 nights up in Noosa (my favourite holiday destination) and it was great fun! Jett was hard work some of the time - he was in a constant state of tiredness from waking at 5am every day (4am QLD time!) which we found reeeally hard but we really did have a great time.....we swam heaps, ate lots of ice cream from Massimo's, went to Eumundi markets and just spent lots of time relaxing at our apartment (French Quarter Resort on Hastings Street).

Jett loved flying on the aeroplane - I get a bit nervous on take off when the plane bumps around but Jett was fine - he just looked out the window and loved seeing all the little treats we had bought him to entertain him on the plane (a new train, textas, crayons, colouring-in etc). He loved swimming at the beach and also in the resort pool - he has absolutely no fear and unfortunately jumps into the water regardless of whether we're there to catch him!

Ollie was really good on holidays - he hadn't slept in a port-a-cot before but he slept beautifully and was happily carted around the place in his pram and Baby Bjorn. He tried swimming in the pool which he didn't seem to mind...he loves his bath so I was pretty sure he'd be OK about swimming.

On the day we came home from Noosa we made a quick stop to DFO at Brisbane Airport.....when we came back to our car to drive to the Domestic Terminal we found our car battery was flat - Jett had turned the headlights on, unbeknownst to us! It was the biggest stress....fortunately the car hire people came out to us and charged the battery and we made it to the JetStar terminal on time - phew!

Here's a photo of all of us on our last night, 10 November.....