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This is going to ruin my no name thing but for a while Avey has been telling Will that her name is Avonlea, A-V-O-N-L-E-A so now whenever zackie calls William Will he says no zac zac its A-B-C WILLIAM!

I decided that Gummy is my American child and Zackie is my little Aussie.
Zackie loves the beach, Lamb, sharks, Finding nemo and Pavlova. Then in nursery he was trying to break into the toy box and he always steals the crayons and compared to Gummy he is a lot less worried about life. Gummy is American cause he likes, football, rodeo, nascar, and food out of a packet. He is freaked out by the beach, won't eat any lamb and is always cheering himself on when he doesn't have a cheer squad near by.

Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas! Our little family didn't go anywhere for Christmas this year and staying home turned out to be fantastic. Christmas eve we had breakfast food for dinner, made Heidi's yummy cookies and read the Christmas story by candlelight. I'm pretty sure zackie and gummy paid more attention to the candle but it was memorable for sean since it was the first time he got to read the story. Then it was off to bed and wrapping time for mummy. We didn't have a tree this year because my paper tree didn't last very long and we couldn't afford the tree we wanted to buy (why be stuck with a tree you don't like just because its cheap) so i had a mini tree and presents up on the table. Christmas morning zackie woke us up with the shark that bruce got him, he was so excited. Gummy loved his super hero cape and Zackie was all about the shark and his food set. He has been cooking and feeding it to the shark ever since. Gummy has been saying he is batman. I think next year I'm going to do the 12 days of Christmas for the boys because they really only want to play with one gift I almost had to force zackie to open a present since the shark was unwrapped and who could want anything more? And I think if I give anymore handmade presents I better start making them in june.

Gummy with his new tool set (that I got a yard sale and has been in his closet for about 3 years)

Super Zackie cooking his food


and eating it. can you see the shark?

Gummy the Builder

Christmas Cookies

So I am trying to think up some sweet family traditions to start for Christmas this year since it is our first Christmas on our own. I thought making Christmas cookies would be fun, I was wrong it was a mess and I just ended up frustrated. Everyone wanted to have their turn, zackie just ate everything in sight including the plain flour and we ended up decorating the cookies separately. I'm thinking this tradition will get better when the kiddies get older.

Bruce is here

Bruce is here!! Gummy called her aunty chelfee for a little
while but now knows betty and chelfee are different people. H has been telling bruce that she is his best friend and he loves her every two seconds. Gummy just wants to know where she is at all times. Zackie is having fun playing with someone different and yes that is H's pressie in the picture. Bruce and I have been shopping pretty much everyday since she got here! we got bruce a wicked awesome new wardrobe! And sean and I went out on friday night to uncle mikes graduation. Bruce just asked if I had to use this photo but its pay back for framing the picture of the sisters at smellos wedding, the one where everyone looks good except for me!

Mr. Messy

Zackie is a very tidy eater. As you may guess he was eating oatmeal and he was very good and only got it on his bib. While I was pulling his bib off the some how I managed to launch the oatmeal from the bib to his face and hair in one go. So i had to take a picture cause this is the only one I'll get of zackie as mr messy.

Snow Day

It snowed in Houston! A whole four inches! Not to worry Sean’s classes were cancelled. I wonder if we ever would have gone to class in Idaho if four inches meant a snow day? Gummy and Zackie weren’t really that interested, I think snow becomes fun if it actually sticks and you can play in it.

Thanksgiving

No turkey or pumpkin pie here! A and I decided that we would all just pick a favourite dish to make and eat that instead of the traditional thanksgiving meal because who chooses turkey over lamb? I did make an apple pie only because I have always wanted to try and make one from scratch. So while I cooking Sean and the boys watched the Macys thanksgiving day parade and football then after dinner we all watched Up. Can't say I loved Up, I haven't really loved a disney cartoon since beauty and the beast. Anyway, here are the things I'm grateful for this year....My Family, The gospel, Friends, Tim Tams, Good books, great music, Netflix and the zoo.

The South will rise again!

These two things happened a while ago...

Gummy and I were watching tv on Saturday and there is really nothing to watch. So I asked Gummy if he wanted to watch kipper the dog and he said no so I started channel surfing. While changing the channel he saw the football and said “stop, ball, ball” so I did and he soon lost interest. Then came the rodeo, he watched for a while and eventually lost interest. Then came nascar, his eyes lit up and he yelled “race car” then proceeded to watch nascar for a long time. I was suprized! Honestly rodeo, nascar and football how southern can you get!!! I’m a little worried he is going to start asking for chicken fried steak and grits. We need to move! Really I don’t mind the rodeo, I understand that its cool to see a bull throw someone off and football is ok but nascar could be the most boring thing ever!!! Really Gummy I hope you change your racing tastes to something more exciting like rally or formula one.

Whenever anyone asked what kind of music I liked I’d always say “lots of stuff, I just hate country.” Well I was sitting watching the Country music awards tonight and realized that I am really starting to like country music. Yeah I know weird right? I didn’t just not like country I hated it. So I thought back to when it may have started and I think I found the cause. Miss Cone! Yes that sweet girl was the beginning. At one of our many sleepovers we were fake emailing some boy and she made me listen to Cowboy take me away by the Dixie Chicks and I liked it. I thought at the time, no one will know, one song isn’t going to hurt you but like everything else it was the first step down the slippery slide of ya’lls, sexy tractors and honky-tonk-ba-donka-donks. After Kim there was Lone Star and she thinks my tractors sexy. Then I’d say 95% of the 30 roommates I had in college country was there number one choice music. One of them even taught me how to two step and turns out its way easier than swing and lots more boys can do it, which made it appealing. And then I moved to texas. And now I have FIVE country songs on my ipod and sometimes listen to country radio…please help.

Big Boy Bike

Gummy has finally got the hang of using pedals so he can ride his big boy bike. Zackie wanted one too.

Playdough

Today H came and played most of the day. Play dough kept the boys entertained for a little while because H was busy slowly stealing everyone else’s play dough to make his own picture. Funny thing was Gummy and Zackie didn’t even notice H was taking their play dough, if only that worked with toys. Can you see H's masterpiece? Zackie is trying to copy it.

Letter of the day is W

When I was trying to teach Gummy what a W was I was also teaching him to stop saying “carry you mummy” and say “carry me mummy” so he started saying “double-me” instead of double you.

beach day pictures

Day at the "beach"

We went down to Galveston to go to the beach with AAAHJ. It was really gross. The sand was dirty, water was brown I would rather swim in the Brisbane river. It did have waves and sand so that’s all the kids wanted. Funny thing was as soon as we stepped on to the sand gummy started screams “I not like this, I not like this, carry you, carry you” eventually he got into it and even went and put his feet in the water. Zackie on the other had loved every minute of it and I had to pry him away from the water. So my sweet little zackie I’m sorry we don’t live in Australia where we could go to the beach everyday! How I miss Rainbow, Burleigh, Sunshine, well really any sunshine or gold coast beach would be a massive improvement to the ickyness of Galveston. The kiddos had fun so I guess it will have to do but there is no way I’m ever going to let that water past my knees.

Start

I decided to start a blog because I’m horrible at keeping in touch and even worse at keeping a journal. I was thinking that the year is gone and what have I done? I came up with potty training gummy and having zackie sleep through the night. So this blog is some proof for next year that I actually did something.