For me, 2016 has had its ups and downs, defiantly more ups
than downs, with the major one being the birth of our second child (I still need
to write my birth story for him… oops).
Most of my year has involved adjusting life to being a mum of 2 and a family of 4. It certainly is not easy, especially when you have a very strong minded 3 year old (who is far too smart for his own good). He loves his baby brother though, and is so helpful – which I love.
Most of my year has involved adjusting life to being a mum of 2 and a family of 4. It certainly is not easy, especially when you have a very strong minded 3 year old (who is far too smart for his own good). He loves his baby brother though, and is so helpful – which I love.
Keaton – he starts
“big school” next year, which freaks me out, because I am not ready to have a 4
year old this year (let alone a 5 year old next year). He has adjusted so well
to being a big brother. I love the age gap between them, as he is just too
young to get jealous, and is so affectionate to Dax, I can see they are going
to have a great relationship when they are older. Keaton also fully
transitioned out of nappies, which has been great, as now there is only one in
nappies. He started swimming and loves it, although he is not a fan of getting
his face wet (sorry to burst your bubble dude, but if you are going to swim,
your face is going to get wet).
Dax – is a super
baby, after being a week over due, and deciding to give me a super quick
labour, and then being so eager to come out, that I couldn’t have any pain
relief at all (Thanks for that Dax) – he has made up for it by being super
chilled. He loves food, boob, and life. The only time he cries is when Keaton inadvertently
hurts him, or you tell him off for hair pulling. He smiles nonstop, from the
time he wakes up, to the time he goes to bed, he has a constant grin on his
face. He loves bathing and loves Keaton to bits. He is currently learning to stand,
and he stands at every chance he gets (currently when he is supposed to be
sleeping in his cot).
Life – Life otherwise
has been pretty good. Hubby started a new job, and has been super busy with
that. I have been enjoying being a visual? Blogger, more so than writing,
mainly because I don’t have time to sit in front of the screen and write
anything anymore. You can keep up to date with my life on my Instagram (I tend to over share
on here quite a bit). We got our New Zealand Citizenship in November, which was
awesome, I can’t believe we have been here for 6 years already. My sister and
her family also came over from South Africa, which has been great, especially
for Keaton, as my nephew and he are the same age – they cause carnage where
ever they go, but love each other to bits. We sadly said farewell to my gran.
She passed away in September after battling dementia. We didn’t have a funeral
as such for her, but all got together (the whole family, first time in 18
years) – and said our goodbyes, let off some balloons, and scattered her ashes
on what would have been her birthday (on Dec 26th).
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| Can you tell Brad loves having his picture taken? |
We had a huge family reunion, and celebrated Christmas eve
at our house. We had planned on having it outside, but it was so windy, that we
had to move everything indoors, and try and fit 20 people seated was very
tricky, but went off without a hitch.
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| I gave Keaton free range of the decorating the gingerbread house |
I took part in a 12 days of Christmas blogging collab with
some awesome kiwi mummy bloggers, I love doing collabs – it’s a great way of
meeting new bloggers, and seeing how differently people interpret things. I
also joined 2 secret Santa/gift exchanges. One was a local Nzsecret Santa
through NZ post – I love the gift I received – it’s a massive (A1) size poster
of my blog name. It is currently homeless, but I know where it is going go. I
also joined the Fat Mum Slim worldwide gift exchange (this was my first year) –
I had so much fun stalking my elf, and we are now cyber friends, which is
great. I also received a super cool gift all the way from the US - it arrived last week, so was a nice surprise.
I think that pretty much sums up my year, there was obviously alot more, but seeing as its already the second week in January I did not want to hang on the past too much. Looking forward
to 2017 and all the adventures it brings, along with some new blogging
adventures and giveaways too – so keep a look out for those. I am also going to
try (I have said this for the last 2 years…) to complete the FMS photo a day
challenge, so if you aren’t already – follow me on Instagram so you can keep
track of my snaps – and let me know your Instagram name below and I will follow
you back J.
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