Rewind - January 2013

 

It has been 7 months since we arrived home after visiting the USA side of the family. I have to admit I got extremely nostalgic looking at the photo's of the last month of our visit there as I prepared to put together this post. I would love it if Australia and the USA were just a little closer to each other, and that our little John could grow up with both sides of the family close by.

What was also apparent to me when looking back at these photo's, was just how much John has grown and developed since we've been home. In January, he was still just learning how to move around, dragging his little legs (with considerable effort) just to move a foot or two, learning how to knaw and pick up food, rolling around and developing his cheeky little sense of humour. Now he can run, laugh, point, throw balls, babble, eat like a horse...but more of that later.

January in NC.

I haven't been around a lot of snow in my life. I grew up in the lower blue mountains and while it got quite cold there, it never snowed. Adelaide is right on the coast, so also no snow. I went to snow fields a couple of time as a teenager/YSA with family friends and church groups, and of course it snowed the first Christmas I spend with John in NC. So seeing it so rarely,snow is kind of a novelty for me. A week or so after Christmas we were lucky enough to get some snow while we were visiting, and so it was John G's first time seeing it, which I was super excited for.

 

 

 

And despite the snow, there were also some warmer days in January - we went to the Outerbanks with our boy to enjoy the sunshine and coast:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We also took a trip to the Aquarium at Manteo with Grandpa. It was freezing cold that day. John G was fascinated with the fishes.

 

 And of course, John just continued to be cute:

 

 

 

We're baaaccckkkk!!!!!

I know, I know, it's been ages...I've been busy...and slack...but we are still here, and I'm *hoping* I'll have a chance to do a massive download in the next week or so to capture all the stuff I've missed so far this year.

Our little family has been doing well since we got home from our massive trip the states for Christmas, John Geoffrey is growing so fast and every day he can do more and more things. I've posted the above video but it's pretty representative of what life is like at the moment. John is just the cutest little thing ever, and loves to play games with us...only he gets frustrated SOOOO easily if things don't go quite his way immediately. For instance, he loves to play with doors, especially the sliding door to the kitchen, and he loves peek-a-boo too, but just watch his instant reaction when he pushes the door too far and can get it back out. Sometimes it grates on your nerves (after a while) other times it's pretty funny. I couldn't help but laugh at him this time (and yes, I did get up and help him after).

Anyway, the reason I might have time to sit down and update the last few months is that I'm going in for an operation on Wednesday to have my gall bladder removed. I'll be at home on bed rest for a while for recovery, and John G will be at daycare during the day, so, it's possible that I'll be bored out of my brain, and possible that I might be able to go through the zillions of photo's on my camera and phone and update the blog. I know if I don't do it soon, some of those precious memories are going to be forgotten, and I really don't want that to happen.