Get a grip and start typing!!

Gee talk about slacking on the blogging front... shew!! but i am now back on the (word) horse... i have been kept very busy with Aidan and other things life has been throwing my way, like aidan getting sick with a non bacterial virus which we had to just wait for it to leave his system as antibiotics would have been pointless...
 
We Have also made Aidan a sand pit (or at least half of it ..) we still need to build the lid for it, so the the complex cats don't think it's a gigantic litter box... and goodness me, Aidan really does love it, it's the first place he makes his way to when mom opens the gate for outside time... 

anyway Kyla and Aidan also had their first sleep over, cos the mommies and daddies had a late evening of poker and joooce....(juice) they thought it was the greatest thing ever, they went to sleep(with much moaning because they were worried the other was allowed to stay up and play, and then woke up to realise their play mate was still there, oh and the fact that instead of porridge they were treated to a chocolate muffin and bacon and egg...

The Durban Mommalicious Mamma's get together is also coming up fast(this Saturday to be exact) and i have been like a kid at Christmas, i have been soooooo excited- now for those of you who know me, know that when i get excited i bounce...yes that's right i bounce, and sometimes let out a little squeal ... so you must know!! anyway there has been some organising and squeals and bouncing all along the road to the get together...

well October is coming up and that means Halloween, now normally we would not do anything for Halloween as we are not Americans, however all the kids in the complex go from house to house, so we thought we couldn't let Aidan miss out on that excitement so we went out and bought him a Spiderman outfit.... and he looks tooo darn cute in it

We have also had Aunty Robyn spending some holiday time with us and has been quiet fun... we have been playing outside by the sandpit, and challenging each other to Wii Fit Plus( Aidan uses the scale as his balance board.) and to Zumba too, wow it has been some hectic challenging but we laughed and wiggled through it... we can safely say that we definitely feel that there are muscles under all this cuddle wrap....


anyway until next time...

Crazy Dog!!

This is the nutty Dachshund x Jack Russell x Cat(??) sitting in Aidan's toy box??? 

Now why would you do that Aimee?

Please excuse Aidan's sticky fingerprints on sliding door...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perched on her throne...

The strange animal in our family!

A rush of blood to the head

Man this dog of Aidan's is driving me nuts, she has now figured out that she can jump over the mesh on the two xpanda gates and goes gallivanting around the complex this sends a rush of blood to the head and makes me almost turn into the Hulk, she is such an escape artist that this morning she jumped over the gate sooo quietly that I thought she had managed to get out the back door and out the garden gate( which goes out onto the road(this gate was open for the gardener)so here i am running up and down the road wondering if this animal has gotten herself run over and after about half and hour up and down in the rain i go inside feeling defeated, but something told me to look out the front, there she was sitting at the gardener/ caretakers door waiting for him to open up for her, what she didn't know was that he was already in our garden... well that made me dilly with anger, here i was soaking wet and tired after running after nothing and she was sitting patiently inside the complex!

It seems I was getting loads of head rushes as we went to the baby expo over the weekend however this was the good kind, as it made me sooo happy to see how Aidan loved the Barney show, and Bob the Builder, the awe and wonder in those little eyes gave me proud mommy emotional rushes of blood to the head, however little Kyla-Lee wasnt as impressed with the purple dinosaur as aidan was and fell fast asleep! and wow the absolute enjoyment of seeing other babies, I mean its not like we keep him cooped up away from people however he is always ecstatic when he sees another "little" person, and how he was interacting with the adults around him he was sweet talking all the people at the stalls we stopped at... They all thought he was super cute,, until he threw the mother of all tantrums, screaming and throwing himself all over the show and creating a huge noise...

 Aidan Watching Barney

Kyla-Lee's 1st impression of Barney!

Having a juice break...

Another thing happened this week! WE FINALLY GOT OUR CAR!!! we are just loving our Tucson it ROCKS!! What an awesome car,with the arrival of the car we decided that we needed to celebrate and went to dinner at Olive & Oil, what a lovely spot, and delish food and the service? Brilliant!! definitely a recommendation is in order!!

All in all an alright week, just hope this week coming also holds out as nicely.

Golly gosh

Oh my golly gosh this past month or so has been an interesting time for us, first off Andrew was in an accident on the way to work (we wont go into the nitty gritty details as to what happened but all that needs to be known was that it was no fault of his and car was a write off)anyway he also got out and helped the injured individual and found that he had a little nick in his skin on his hand and had said persons blood on the same hand, off to the doc he went and got some meds to prevent aids and had his blood pressure tested which came out pretty high, a few weeks later we go back to the doc to have another BP test done and the results were slightly lower but basically we were told that its not high enough to have him on BP meds but he needs to watch what he eats and exercise more, so we have been eating better(-NOT A DIET, just better eating-I'm doing this aswell out of support) to begin Andrew was at 6'4" and 118kgs and after two weeks of this eating change we have both noticed that we have more energy, are more regular and Andrew has lost 2kgs already- I have yet to weigh myself...
We have to go at in the beginning of October to have his blood test results given to us to see whether he is still negative.

After the car was written off we had to start long tedious process of finding finance for a new car and also to decide which vehicle we were going to get as we needed to think about our ever growing child and any future children ( and all the stuff that having a child entails(prams, nappy bags, car seats, etc.)
Thanks to my mom and dad who have two cars we were able to use my moms car over weekends and luckily we have friends that live very near by that actually work with Andrew in Umhlanga (70km's round trip from where we live)with whom they've had a lift club with prior to accident, for during the week.

We have since got finance and found a lovely Tucson that we are purchasing from someone I knew from tech days... so we are pretty excited as we will be getting it in 5 days time!

Now on my side I've been a pretty busy mommy, what with dealing with a sick and grumpy toddler who is cutting all 4 of his last molars all at once, and to say that he isn't taking it too well is a small understatement, in the past two nights I don't think I've managed a full hour sleep at any given time, but I although I have been tired I don't feel drained and its all after the change in eating.

my sister has treated my mother, and myself to permanent eye liner(which rocks because I hardly ever have time to do make up and at least this way I'd at least have the basic staple on already, however my appointment was changed to next Friday and there was talk between the salon ladies that I MIGHT just get a free manicure for changing my appointment time, which too is great because as a mom with a busy little toddler I don't have the time to sit and have my nails done, there is just no time plain and simple, I had also roped in most of the Hunt household to do a straight perm on my hair yesterday, (it was a joint operation, although dad was at work and Shea was sleeping, I managed to get Robyn mom and Garreth (Shea's boyfriend)all fussing over my hair... hee hee hee it's called delegation people!

Anyway we continue to pray and keep our faith and just remain positive for the rest of this crazy year, (not all bad crazy but some good crazy too, CRAZY nonetheless!)