The Adventures of Amber and Aidan!: January 2008

This is the shoe that Amber decided minutes before heading out the door to go to her best friends birthday party to lodge up her nose! This is not the first time Amber has done this but after this experience hopefully the last. Several months ago she managed to lodge a rock up her nostril but thankfully we managed to cover one nostril and told her to blow and it came out, this time we were not as fortunate. When she lodged the rock up her nose the first time we didn't believe her at first and ignored what she was saying this time though there was no doubt and after several attempts to remove, we were off to the hospital. I think we spent around 3 hours up at the hospital and just when we were about to get her put under so they could remove the shoe, Amber gets a runny nose and wants a tissue, the next thing I know I am looking down and what is laying in her skirt but the little shoe. So after half a day of anxiety and Amber missing out on half of Darcys 4th birthday, we can finally leave the hospital and so begins 2008 lol!!!

Lets hope the rest of the year is a little more boring lol!!! We were fortunate though that the party had not finished and Amber had an amazing time at Darcys birthday and the shoe incident was all but forgotten, ah kids you have to love them!!!

Well it has been a little crazy and cramped staying at our new living quarters, but we are starting to settle in now. Amber wants to visit Emma her cousin upstairs at least two hundred times a day, so that is a bit of a challenge, they just enjoy each others company soo much but we are trying to keep her downstairs as much as we can and trying to not bother my sister too much, but everything seems to be going ok I think lol!

We haven't managed to do any family things yet this holidays, which is unfortunate as David only managed two weeks holiday in 2007 which was last christmas and he worked half of that and it looks like this year is going to be the same, so hopefully we can sneak a weekend away sometime soon as a family!

Well I haven't had a chance to post anything lately, so I am going to try and make up for that in this post, so sorry to everyone for the overload lol!!!

We tried very hard to make christmas time a special one for Amber, and we managed to bring over the work christmas tree from home, which is a little on the small side, but Amber enjoyed putting it up anyway! Yes that is a kettle in the back ground and our tree is smaller than Amber lol!

We looked after my neice a couple of weekends ago and had a wonderful time. Amber truly loves Emma like a sister, they are just the sweetest together more like sisters than cousins. We dressed them up to go see santa on the Sunday but unfortunately Emma is going through the fear of sitting on Santas lap faze, so I decided to take some photos once we arrived home as they both looked so cute.

Christmas lights were certainly a favorite at our place this year, as they are every year. I think christmas lights transport me and my sister back to being children ourselves, as fairy lights still seem magic to me, I guess the inner child is still alive, at least at christmas time anyway. We all had a wonderful time driving around and one night we stalked the Brisbane City christmas light bus so we could find all the best places, you can just imagine 3 cars stalking a bus half way around the city lol!!! We managed to catch up with mine and Ambers besties Kathy and Darcy and Amber was just so excited to explore all the lights with her two favourite people Darcy and Emma! It was a magical night!

We spent christmas eve weekend with our friends Ian and Ann and had a wonderful evening with them and their two boys. Amber always has a wonderful time with Mitchell and they loved exchanging gifts! Thanks for the fab evening guys, we had a ball, like always!

Yeah we have finally made it to christmas day, we had an amazing morning and Amber really enjoyed this christmas, it is the first year that she truly understands what Santa is all about, and she was so excited to open all her presents up. We then moved onto mums place and had a wonderful day and Amber was over the moon when she opened up grandmas present and found an ariel doll and when she saw the doll and a dress up costume, well lets just say grandma was the best! The weather was a bit of a shocker and very over cast but that didn't stop the kids from going for a swim in the pool. It truly was an fun and relaxing day.

Oh Tracey if you ever get a chance to read this Amber says a big thankyou, she got such a big surprise. You must be a mind reader to know how much she loves ariel and she loves the dvd, and amazingly she didn't receive it from anyone else, freaky I tell you! It was truly so nice of you to always think of her.

New Years was pretty low key at my sisters place with a poker night and we had loads of fun, I behaved myself, which was silly as I could of had a big night as we only had to walk downstairs when the night was over. I hope everyone living far and wide and all our friends and family that are true and dear had a wonderful new years and may 2008 bring success and happiness for everyone. I have a feeling 2008 is going to bring many changes for everyone, lets hope they are all amazing.