Hayden has been right into Christmas this week with 2 visits to Santa and tree decorating and the Christmas boat parade... the festive season is amongst us.
We took him to sit on Santa's knee at our local shopping centre on Monday afternoon, he wasn't afraid of Santa at all, walked right up to him and sat on his knee, the only trouble then was trying to make him smile - he was being so serious. We had to settle for this hint of an upturned corner of the mouth.
The rest of the week has been pretty 'normal' as far as that goes in our lives. I've been getting right into the gym, going 5 days a week to various classes and doing my training program - I'm loving it. Hayden comes with me on Tuesdays and Saturdays and he goes to the creche, he has a great time there while I'm sweating it out.
We've been having a lot of early mornings with him though - he's often up before 5am, by about 1pm I'm exhausted. He's definately getting block-out blinds in the new house and for God's sake Peter Beattie - bring on daylight savings!!!!!!!!!
I guess officially I should make mention of the fact that I'm no longer pregnant - unfortunately the baby had an extra set of chromosomes and was never going to survive, it's now been almost a month since I had a D&C.
The Christmas boat parade was on Saturday night - we have some friends that live on Harbour Parade opposite the river so we had prime viewing position. It was a great night, the kids all had a blast too and Hayden was in his element with Emily - middle child of the house, they are in day-care together and adore each other.
We started putting up the Christmas tree on Saturday - resigned now to the fact that we won't be selling the house and settling before then - Erin has also put up a few lights outside. Hayden and Erin finished decorating the tree yesterday morning while I had a rare lie-in.
We're going to attempt some gingerbread baking this week - I have grand ambitions of making a gingerbread house - stay tuned!
The house... we changed the wording of the ad this week and we had seven groups through - our biggest numbers in one day yet. Of those, two groups are apparently keen, so we'll just have to wait (that damn word again!) and see what happens.
This week is shaping up to be busy - final semester results are posted online tomorrow morning - I pretty much know what I'm heading for but am waiting for official confirmation. On Thursday I'm down to Brisbane with a girlfriend to see Varekai, the latest Cirque de Soleil show to tour here. Then it's Dad's birthday on the weekend and also another friend's birthday so it's bound to be a busy one.
Must fly - Hayden is asking for his weetbix and I have to go to the gym for my boxing class!
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