Easter 2016

Dear Matthew

Last weekend we celebrated Easter with a myriad of activity. We started by having a very yummy breakfast at Ma Ma and Gumps' house, which seems to have become a bit of a tradition on Good Friday. We had waffles, fresh muffins, fruit, croissants - it was delicious and you actually ate quite a bit! It was followed by a little Easter egg hunt around their front garden which you enjoyed although there were a few moments where we had to make the little eggs pretty obvious (green eggs on green grass was a bad idea). You then took your stash and went and ate them in your tent!

In the afternoon I had to work so you spent some quality time with daddy. Come Saturday morning we dropped the Jazz off for a service and to kill some time we braved IKEA. It was actually more enjoyable than I thought despite the fact that we kept promising you chips and weren't able to deliver them until we were leaving - but we survived! And we got everything on our list!

We then started to head back to the service centre but as they hadn't called us yet we figured the car wasn't ready so we stopped into the zoo. They have a dinosaur exhibit on at the moment which you loved, with many comments of 'look! Dinosaur! A big, big dinosaur!!' coming out of your mouth! Luckily (sort of) the weather wasn't great and it wasn't busy so we wandered around, saw the meerkats being fed and the elephants doing some exercises.

Saturday afternoon we picked up the car, finished our Easter egg shopping and took a trip to Bunnings for some stuff for the garden. Sunday morning we woke up and the Easter bunny had come! There were many exclamations of 'wow! Look mummy! Wow!' at the bunny footprints while you collected your eggs. We then went and visited your great grandparents and you had fun destroying their garden :)

On Monday we did some shopping before heading your grandad and Maree's place for lunch as it was his 60th birthday. Grandad's poor dog Beau has been in the wars and had to have two operations in the last week or so and your grandad was meant to be in Singapore but stayed home to care for Beau so it was good to be able to help him celebrate. You had fun playing with two other older boys, Oscar and Angus, who are family friends of grandad's.

All in all it was a wonderful, highly productive weekend! Happy Easter my little bunny!

Love you,

Mum xxx

Ella's 7th birthday and a Spurs sleepover

 

Dear Matthew

 

 

A few weeks ago it was your cousin Ella's 7th birthday and we celebrated at her house. She had a big blowup water slide which you went down with daddy and Andrew. You enjoyed spending time with your cousins and eating cake! You have become a bit obsessed with blowing out candles so we had to do a few fakes for you :)

 

That evening we went around to your grandad and Maree's house as the Spurs were playing on their Foxtel sports channel. Your dad and grandad are massive fans so good luck trying to escape being a supporter- as you can tell from the last photo, they've even managed to convert your mum. Although I must admit I can't even name one player...

 

It was a great weekend with your dad's side of the family.

 

Love you munchkin,

 

Mum xxx



 

 

Your maternal grandparents

 

Dear Matthew

 

I thought I'd share these beautiful photos with you of you and your Ma Ma and Gumps. At the moment you are spending three days a week at heir house while mummy is at work so their house has very much become your second home and you get to potter around all day long.

 

As you can see from the photos, you are loving 'helping' Gumps with the lawn mowing, doing crafts with Ma Ma and just generally mucking around with both of them. It is beautiful to watch your relationships develop and I hope you will treasure your time with them- they are truly amazing, loving people. They teach you so much, love you unconditionally and laugh with you all day long.

 

They are a big part of our village and we are so, so lucky.

 

Love you,

 

Mum xxx

 



 

Your joy

 

Dear Matthew

 

I am the first to admit that some days are tougher than others when looking after a toddler but a few weeks ago we had a particularly good day and stopped into John Oldham Park in the city before picking your dad and aunty up after work/uni. It is so much fun going to the park with you now and you loved the big slide, splashing around in the big puddles and looking at all the birdlife.

 

Thank you for bringing so much joy to my life - I am not a natural at this mothering business and most days I end up thinking I haven't done a good enough job but on days like this when your face lights up you give me hope that I can at least get better. And for one day, I am enough.

 

Love you darling,

 

Mum xxx

 

 

Dim sum with the fam

Dear Matthew

 

On the weekend we met your nanna, Aunty Chantel, Andrew and Lachlan in Northbridge for dim sum. It was great to get out and about on a lovely summer's day. You of course insisted on using chopsticks and ran around the restaurant enjoying yourself. You were a bit freaked out when I showed you the crabs and lobsters in the tanks but!

 

Afterwards we headed to Timezone where you were in your element hitting crocodiles' heads!

 

Before we left we also had ice cream from cold rock which silenced you for a good twenty minutes - you are my ice cream-aholic!

 

Love you baby boy,

 

Mum xxx