Heartkids Christmas Party

We went to the Zoo today to celebrate Christmas with Heartkids Victoria. For all of us, Christmas is a time to remember what you have been blessed with in life. It makes me realise how lucky we are to have our precious little girl (and boy too!) and how special she is. We remember the heartache, the pain, the heart angels we got to know and have lost. We reconnected with friends who helped us and shared the pain, and joy of watching theirs and our child come through some pretty hard times.
Mia was thrilled to see Santa and he gave her a talking FIFI doll which she just loves!
The whole Zoo things was a bit lost on Theo, will have to take him back when he is a bit older!
Please keep Mia and all her heartkid friends in your thoughts and prayers!

Mia went to Tesselarrs Tulip Festival with her friends Cooper and Chelsea. They had a great time tip-toing through the tulips and playing in the fairy garden. Mia thinks she saw a fairy in a flower!

Theo just loves his baths. He has two teeth and is crawling all over the place. Today he tipped out Molly's water onto the kitchen floor, and also worked out how to get the lid off his talc and puffed it in his face!

Look at Theo, proud as punch to be sitting up playing with his toys! He loves this little telephone, and the spinning tops too!

Mia is desparate for the weather to get warm so she can wear some of the lovely summer clothes she got for her birthday! In the interim, leggings and long tops to be worn underneath!

ALREADY THREE!

Can you believe our little girl is THREE tomorrow! And doesn't she look beautiful. She is growing up so fast and I don't know where the years have gone.

Heart Check

Once again, Mia has passed her heart check with flying colours! Her cardiologist said her ultrasound pictures looked great. Still looking at 4 or 4.5 for the next op, the limiting factor being we need to beef her up.
Other than that, the terrible twos have appeared just before the third birthday and have come with avengence! Interesting time in our house right now.
Theo is georgous, developing beautifully. Never stops babbling, mum-mum dad-dad and nan-nan. Squeels with laughter when his sister giggles with him.

Does Dorothy like Sweet Potato?

This is Mia, or is it Dorothy the Dinosaur? Who could tell. We had great fun at the Wiggles concert last week and it has given Mia a new love of the fab four, recently forgotten and replaced by Hi5 (much to my distress). Mia also loves ballerinas, dancing, dressing up as a fairy (or is it a ballerina?) and going to music and movement classes. She is very cute.

Theo has discovered the joys of smearing himself with food, which ENSURES a bath at the end of the meal, which he loves. Here, sweet potato and pumpkin, strategically aimed at the mouth (but not always successfully!!)

Mia and Theo have a great time toghether playing on the floor now! Theo is rolling all over the place and gets annoyed if Mia is in his way!

Madam, next to the piano. I have bought a pre-reader piano lesson book which is really as much to teach me HOW to teach her to play, as it is to teach her to play!!!! (did that make sense?) We had our first music class yesterday and she loved it.

Easter

A wonderful easter holiday at Lake Eildon. Both Mia and Theo had a ball. Mia shown above, was well serviced by the Easter Bunny. Theo, not so well taken care of in the way of chocolate, excelled in his bottle taking and is now having 4 bottles and 3 breast feeds a day. We are very relieved that he has moved on from his pathetic effort of 30mls per bottle, once a day.

Although we didn't get out on the water, Mia made sure she was prepared, and did lots of playing in the boat on dry land. Maybee next trip we will get to take her out.

Hope everyone had a really great easter!

New Bike Helmet

Mia has a new bike helmet, the other one has gone missing. She picked a Dora one and is very proud. She has spent the morning zooming around the deck on her trike with Dora on her head. She weighs 10kg!!!!!!!!! Although Theo, at 6.2kg is catching up fast. We are taking bets as to at what age he will overtake her.


Theo is beautiful.... doing better sleeping overnight and accepting his bottle more too, although we are still only giving him one a day. Sometimes he has 20ml, others 80-100ml. He is SO allert, smiling, giggling, wanting to see and be a part of whatever is going on.

Will try to do better with blogging...

Christmas over for another year

Christmas is over for another year and we are all exhausted! Please excuse the S..... quality of the nativity scene! Mia is an angel, Theo baby Jesus in the bassinette and you may recognise a few other faces is the crowded stable that night! Mary, not a family member, was quite obviously bored by the whole thing! Childrens service at Holy Trinity, Kew, Christmas Eve.

Mum, stop dressing me up like a doll! First Christmas suit proudly sponsered by Aunty Meaghan..... surprise surprise... but doesn't he look cute, even if he doesn't appreciate it!

Happy new year to everyone. Will try to keep going with the updates when I remember to take photos or if something exciting happens!
Cheers