So, I haven't blogged in the whole of December. Not to say I haven't thought about it. I've considered posting about: our lack of travels and the days drawing in and us responding by days and days at home; or how Christmas prep has taken over our household; how pj's are the number one clothes item for the winter months; is it acceptable to be obsessed with angry birds and how do we manage our expectations verses our children's; why Santa Claus makes no appearance in our house; how we celebrate Christmas; the centrality of family in our lives; how education is a by product of our lifestyle and how we live our lives and the relationships we are forming with eachother, with Jesus, with our friends are central; not applying for a schools place; places we go to when the weather is grim and our usual haunts are closed for the season; the difference in our parenting between the arrival of baby #1 and #3; what the children have been exploring and learning and questioning and playing.....let's do that!
Bean: Bean has been enjoying festive activities, making cards and salt dough decorations and watching Christmas shows (which all deceptively snow on Christmas day), choosing and shopping for presents for family, carols outside in the dark and by cancel light, a puppet show and singing 'happy birthday Jesus' at nearly every place we go!
Pumpkin: Pumpkin has been perfecting his angry birds skills and beating daddy at every level and finding accessories and birds that daddy has never come across. Mostly, that's it. Or so it would seem some days. Other days he draws and paints and colours reenacts angry birds with his toys and bricks and Bean! And he has baked a lot of cakes and biscuits for his friends as Christmas gifts.
Plum: Plum has grown more hair! She is also cruising very happily and has 3 teeth come through. I read the other day about the order at which teeth grow through and at what age. I only read the first few sentences before I stopped as it stopped applying to Plum in the first set, yet again proving that we are all different and not being average is not necessarily a problem (well, not in this house and especially not when it comes to teeth growing!) She is also vocalising a lot and managing ma ma and da da and pointing most decisively at the things she wants. She loves to sing along to music and her body can't help but move when a good tune comes along.
And then Christmas came and we joined our families to spend days together and sharing gifts and mince pies.
And it would not be a post about December 2012 if I did not mention the latest addition to our family, the beautiful Cleo, my new niece whom I love dearly and am so happy that she has been granted to our family to care for, what a blessing.
