Ponderings

Jahan and I are back from San Francisco after a lovely, relaxing time over with Corina, Mike and Micah.

It was a great opportunity for Jahan to spend time with his godparents, and a chance for him and I to spend some quality time together. I really valued the time, and Jahan had a ball.
More pics on Facebook.

The boys were playing at robots today. (Amazing how into Transformers Kiran is at the moment given that he really doesn’t have much idea who they are or even what they look like! They obviously caught his fancy when someone else expounded their virtues at Day Care. And since Transformers involve cars, trucks and jet planes, Jahan is completely uninterested in them. Although he did enjoy the dressing up!)

Jahan began taking violin lessons this week and seems very excited about it so far. Well, it’s only been two days… but the teacher thinks he’s showing great promise already. So here’s hoping he sticks with it.

Last Sunday we had a little party to celebrate Lachlan’s first birthday, and took the opportunity to have him baptised at our home.

ASIDE: Finding a Uniting Church minister who would gladly baptise a child outside of a Uniting Church was a challenge. The UCA argument is that a child needs to be baptised into a congregation. I finally managed to find a nice, forward thinking minister, from Beecroft Uniting Church, who accepted the argument that Lachlan’s closest friends and family constituted his Christian family, and not a bunch of strangers at the local Uniting Church. So he agreed to baptise Lachlan at our home.
Well, it bucketed down rain, so the Garden Baptism didn’t quite eventuate. We did manage to cram 40 people into our living room where a simple ceremony ensued, followed by a birthday celebration.

Photographs on Facebook. Here’s one with Lachlan and his godparents, Dayanee and Satyen and their kids, and one of his “Froggy Jungle Birthday 1″ cake.

47.5 kg. Yup. That’s less than I weighed ten years ago before even Jahan was a twinkle in his father’s eye. And yet I cannot for the life of me, shift this flippin’ tyre of flab around my tummy! Aaargh!! And the more I diet and exercise, the more weight I lose off all the wrong places. I’ve lost weight around my chest, butt and thighs – all the places I don’t want it gone! Plus my face now looks gaunt and I have dark circles around my eyes. I can’t afford to lose any more weight – I just can’t seem to move it off the ever increasing girth around my waist!! WHAT TO DO?!?!?

Well for one thing, the diet is going. I am fed up with avoiding all the things I love to eat when, clearly, the weight loss per se is not the issue. And huge amounts of cardio has simply made it fall of all the wrong places. So it appears that unless I am prepared to commit to some 1000 sit ups a day, my new love handles are to, forever more, be the bane of my existence.

My boys have never been known for any sort of tendency to clean house. Picking up, putting away or tidying of any form does not come naturally and usually only achieved under much duress. Not sure, then, why in the past fortnight or so, they’ve found much amusement in donning their aprons and playing house. NOT COMPLAINING THOUGH!!!

Just 10 days shy of his first birthday, Lachie had decided to crack his first tooth.

It seems conventional to credit teething woes with every bug encountered in the process, but Lachie has in fact been quite snotty of late. So perhaps there’s something in it. Who knows?

More silliness from the Colin Buchanan concert:

J&K had a great time at the Colin Buchanan concert this week. Colin’s a fantastic Christian performer. Visit his website:
www.colinbuchanan.com.au

Lachlan has now taken several steps unaided, and is quite thrilled about it. He’s a bit of a late bloomer, only walking at 11 months compared to both his brothers who were walking at 10! (What is it about my kids and stupidly early gross motor milestones? Clearly, relaxing cups of tea are not intended on my daily agenda.)