Early February

Last October we got Iain a proper twin sized bed, and rearranged his room. This is the bed he keeps until he moves out of the house ;-). You can't see the trundle pulled out, but under is another twin mattress, for the pleasure of our guests (and his future sleep-overs). AND, when you pull the trundle out, there's a space under/behind the bed to play "mousie" in....ah, the joy!


We've actually massively re-done Ria's room too, she's out of the crib now, but the pictures I took are already out of date, as we had to move her bed AWAY from the bookshelf, as she was waking herself up 3 times a night to get some "reading" in. Here is the first of MANY photos of Ria falling asleep with a book on her face. Yep, she's OUR kid!

Here's a gang (with stars on their bellies) putting in some new solar powered LED walkway lights.

Not the best photo technically, but they're so cute holding hands!

And, some videos ;-). First we have children cackling while rolling massive therapy balls up and down the stairs. Iain can really make that girl laugh!

And, finally, Ria doing her "funny walk".

Post-dated post notice!

Not VERY post-dated, but check out the 2 posts I just stuck in behind the last one, dated in January.

http://aker-ruck.blogspot.com/2009/01/sleeping-hiking-dancing.html
and
http://aker-ruck.blogspot.com/2009/01/some-new-year-sibling-fun.html

mona

Ugh.

(There's a little voice in my head saying i shouldn't post anything until i get those January pictures up, but i'm ignoring it!)

Ugh. We've had the stomach flu. The one with the 24 hour vomit-fest. Rather, Ria and then Iain have had it. Somehow, in the effluvia-crazed celebration I have managed to avoid it (though i got a cold sore). Right now, however, William is camping out by the toilet. I guess someone had to skip it so that she could clean what feels like every single surface in the house, in some cases 3 times (that was the upstairs bathroom....I only had to scrub Ria's wall and crib rails once, don't know what i'm complaining about!). I was getting all excited this evening, after disassembling both toilets to clean the last vestiges out, about how it was all over, when William informed me that he was feeling kinda queasy.

*sigh*