Category: Children
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Rugby 2009
Being Australian we do enjoy a lot of sports and, having left the country, we often go to some lengths to ensure our children receive a good sporting education. This usually involves grabbing relevant sporting events — Tri Nations, Super 14, State of Origin, AFL Grand Final — from the internet since they don’t receive…
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Broken Boy Elijah
The wrist was first (aggressive inline skating). The knee came after coming off a scooter he wasn’t supposed to be on.
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Movie Insufficient for Gaynor
Even though we’ve lived and travelled across different parts of the globe now we still pine for the fjords of Australia.[1] Though it has only been just over four years, sometimes it feels like a different life. A couple of months ago we went along with my visiting brother Martin — who has been out…
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Easter 2009
While Good Friday is currently sacrosanct as a holiday in Australia and Germany — indeed in many other countries that we’ve never experienced it in — that’s not the case in the U.S. At least, not in California. I’m told some other states do have it as a holiday but, well we don’t live there.…
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A Recent Vote
We’ve always done our best to include the children in family decisions. We believe it is good for them and good for the parents. Matters such as, where we’ll go for holidays, where we’ll eat and what we’ll be watching. When there is no real common consensus, we’ll usually take a vote. However that sometimes…
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No longer a toothless wonder
To ring in the new year, Micah produced his first tooth — his lower front left — on the first day of the year and its companion showed up today. Those months of dribble are starting to pay off. He’s only been bested in the Fastest to Teeth Stakes by Joshua who clocked in at…
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More on Micah
Micah is growing fast. In fact he is probably our largest baby at this stage. He’s a good feeder, pretty decent sleep and is already wearing clothes for 3-6 month-olds at his 2 month mark. He’s quite strong, doing a good job of supporting himself with his legs, and is also very smiley. He’s been…
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Announcing the Sixth
After almost 8 months of expectation we are very pleased to announce the arrival of our sixth child, Micah Frederick. After a couple of weak false starts, Gaynor went into labour proper Wednesday 16th of July around noon. True to predictability, Gaynor’s parents — who are visiting for a while to help out with the…
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Language Update
Of course, one of the challenges of moving countries is the language barrier. The shift to Germany meant an obvious difficulty but the move to California has brought its own subtle problems. In Germany the challenge was to learn a whole new language, in California it’s retention. Retention of both our Australian dialect and our…
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Ari and Fenton’s Theme Park Trip
One thing southern California doesn’t have in short supply is theme parks. Apart the the big and well known ones — Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm among them — there are plenty of smaller ones scattered about the place and all seem pretty popular. Recently, Ariana earned herself a free pass, from a Jump Rope…