caleb's birthday

caleb's birthday this saturday. we are taking him to the pool with 4 of his cousins and having a picnic afterwards. it's funny because this week he has watched some of his programmes and they have had birthday cake. So he's been asking me for a birthday cake nearly every day. I keep saying wait till saturday, but of course he doesn't understand :)

So looking forward to making the day special for him. Just having his cousins in the water with him will make his day. He will be so excited!

christmas is almost here! because this is my 1st real christmas with full decorations...it is taking me a while to get the house ready. I'm 80% there. And I have been watering my christmas tree so it will at least survive the holidays!

It's going to be an interesting gathering on christmas eve because myles' sister, brother and his mum's partner will be here with all my tribe. Hopefully everyone will enjoy themselves. Plus 1st christmas in our new place.

At least i've done most of my christmas shopping.

Riley's burn is healing nicely, i hope it doesn't scar (plse Lord!). Her and caleb are interacting so much more. She is so long, she's going to be a 'giant' that's one of caleb's fav words at the moment. Everything big is a giant :) She is communicating a lot more, squeals, reaching out to people, giggling, etc. Her 1st teeth are coming out too!

Caleb is desperate to communicate with me. He strings words together but wants to say more so he gets very animated. He recognises letters from the alphabet now to our amazement. We draw with him and do the alphabet and there is a kids programme which focuses on spelling words called 'word world' on the disney channel. It's great! He counts to 10 when he wants to. That still amazes me!! They learn so fast at this age. One week you're drawing letters with him and he doesn't recognise anything and the next week he's saying 'K' or you're counting steps with him and the next he's counting by himself! God is good!