Monday, June 30, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Connor first steps
well, yesterday we bought Connor his first pair of shoes, and when we got home, he took his first 3 or four steps (not wearing the shoes though). So walking might not be far off.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Bit of a catch up
Well, it's been a while since I last blogged and since I have a spare hour or so on the train this evening, it seemed like a good idea.
Firstly the house, we've confirmed all the conditions we stated on the contract, and all the checks came back fine, there is a bit of work needing doing, but nothing major, so now the only condition we have to fullfill is the sale of the house. On that front, we had a lady through for the second time last weekend, and she wanted to come through for a third look (promising), but she fell off her horse, and is unable to come again for a while, also he partner thinks it might be a bit too far out. Hopefully she'll be able to convince him otherwise, and be up and about soon! As a backup plan, we've got a couple of open homes, 1 this weekend and another the weekend after, and a fair bit of advertising to coincide with the open homes too. Fingers crossed.
On the farm front, it's not all good news, we unfortunatly lost a goat a few weeks ago. Klaus (the Christmas day goat), we healthy and happy one day, and the next morning was scouring (poopy), and then by 5pm he was dead! From the speed of it, we think it was barber pole worm, a particularly nasty worm that feeds off the blood of the host and kills them! We've drenched the rest, and, touch wood, no one else is showing signs.
On the happy side of the farm, Steph and I have been progressing in our NZQA General Farm Skills course, we've now completed the chainsaw, ATV, 2 wheel farm bike, and tractor driving segments. I passed the tractor driving one before I even got the tractor out of the shed...Just by observing me getting her out (the ground was slipping and traction wasn't great), and parking her up I covered everything he wanted to see!
The 2 wheel bike course was fun, and I think that if we get the other farm, I will have to get a bike to supplement the quad as it will be able to go alot of places the quad can't, but as with all these ideas, we have to sell the house first!
On the Connor front, yeah, the bit you've all be waiting for..He's fine......
Nah, I'm sure I can write a bit more, he's good, sleeping through the night. We don't think he is particulary close to walking, he can get around quite fast on all fours at the moment! One neat thing we did observe on Sunday was when Steph and I were reading to him (a pretty boring book with objects and animals of different colors etc), every time the image was a horse he made the horse sign, same for light, gloves, fish, dog,bird and cat. We think he might have attempted sheep/goat too, but might have got confused with horse (at the moment if an animal isn't a fish/dog/cat/bird, it must be a horse!) It's a neat party trick for a 1 year old! Just shows how much faster their brains develop in relation to their verbal skills!
One thing he has taken to is beating himself up, when he gets frustrated he tends to hit himself on the head, we're slowly dealing to it.
He's still going swimming once a week, and is still finding it great fun, if he had his way, it would just be submersions, but he's only allowed 6/day.
Well, it's been a while since I last blogged and since I have a spare hour or so on the train this evening, it seemed like a good idea.
Firstly the house, we've confirmed all the conditions we stated on the contract, and all the checks came back fine, there is a bit of work needing doing, but nothing major, so now the only condition we have to fullfill is the sale of the house. On that front, we had a lady through for the second time last weekend, and she wanted to come through for a third look (promising), but she fell off her horse, and is unable to come again for a while, also he partner thinks it might be a bit too far out. Hopefully she'll be able to convince him otherwise, and be up and about soon! As a backup plan, we've got a couple of open homes, 1 this weekend and another the weekend after, and a fair bit of advertising to coincide with the open homes too. Fingers crossed.
On the farm front, it's not all good news, we unfortunatly lost a goat a few weeks ago. Klaus (the Christmas day goat), we healthy and happy one day, and the next morning was scouring (poopy), and then by 5pm he was dead! From the speed of it, we think it was barber pole worm, a particularly nasty worm that feeds off the blood of the host and kills them! We've drenched the rest, and, touch wood, no one else is showing signs.
On the happy side of the farm, Steph and I have been progressing in our NZQA General Farm Skills course, we've now completed the chainsaw, ATV, 2 wheel farm bike, and tractor driving segments. I passed the tractor driving one before I even got the tractor out of the shed...Just by observing me getting her out (the ground was slipping and traction wasn't great), and parking her up I covered everything he wanted to see!
The 2 wheel bike course was fun, and I think that if we get the other farm, I will have to get a bike to supplement the quad as it will be able to go alot of places the quad can't, but as with all these ideas, we have to sell the house first!
On the Connor front, yeah, the bit you've all be waiting for..He's fine......
Nah, I'm sure I can write a bit more, he's good, sleeping through the night. We don't think he is particulary close to walking, he can get around quite fast on all fours at the moment! One neat thing we did observe on Sunday was when Steph and I were reading to him (a pretty boring book with objects and animals of different colors etc), every time the image was a horse he made the horse sign, same for light, gloves, fish, dog,bird and cat. We think he might have attempted sheep/goat too, but might have got confused with horse (at the moment if an animal isn't a fish/dog/cat/bird, it must be a horse!) It's a neat party trick for a 1 year old! Just shows how much faster their brains develop in relation to their verbal skills!
One thing he has taken to is beating himself up, when he gets frustrated he tends to hit himself on the head, we're slowly dealing to it.
He's still going swimming once a week, and is still finding it great fun, if he had his way, it would just be submersions, but he's only allowed 6/day.
Firstly the house, we've confirmed all the conditions we stated on the contract, and all the checks came back fine, there is a bit of work needing doing, but nothing major, so now the only condition we have to fullfill is the sale of the house. On that front, we had a lady through for the second time last weekend, and she wanted to come through for a third look (promising), but she fell off her horse, and is unable to come again for a while, also he partner thinks it might be a bit too far out. Hopefully she'll be able to convince him otherwise, and be up and about soon! As a backup plan, we've got a couple of open homes, 1 this weekend and another the weekend after, and a fair bit of advertising to coincide with the open homes too. Fingers crossed.
On the farm front, it's not all good news, we unfortunatly lost a goat a few weeks ago. Klaus (the Christmas day goat), we healthy and happy one day, and the next morning was scouring (poopy), and then by 5pm he was dead! From the speed of it, we think it was barber pole worm, a particularly nasty worm that feeds off the blood of the host and kills them! We've drenched the rest, and, touch wood, no one else is showing signs.
On the happy side of the farm, Steph and I have been progressing in our NZQA General Farm Skills course, we've now completed the chainsaw, ATV, 2 wheel farm bike, and tractor driving segments. I passed the tractor driving one before I even got the tractor out of the shed...Just by observing me getting her out (the ground was slipping and traction wasn't great), and parking her up I covered everything he wanted to see!
The 2 wheel bike course was fun, and I think that if we get the other farm, I will have to get a bike to supplement the quad as it will be able to go alot of places the quad can't, but as with all these ideas, we have to sell the house first!
On the Connor front, yeah, the bit you've all be waiting for..He's fine......
Nah, I'm sure I can write a bit more, he's good, sleeping through the night. We don't think he is particulary close to walking, he can get around quite fast on all fours at the moment! One neat thing we did observe on Sunday was when Steph and I were reading to him (a pretty boring book with objects and animals of different colors etc), every time the image was a horse he made the horse sign, same for light, gloves, fish, dog,bird and cat. We think he might have attempted sheep/goat too, but might have got confused with horse (at the moment if an animal isn't a fish/dog/cat/bird, it must be a horse!) It's a neat party trick for a 1 year old! Just shows how much faster their brains develop in relation to their verbal skills!
One thing he has taken to is beating himself up, when he gets frustrated he tends to hit himself on the head, we're slowly dealing to it.
He's still going swimming once a week, and is still finding it great fun, if he had his way, it would just be submersions, but he's only allowed 6/day.
Well, it's been a while since I last blogged and since I have a spare hour or so on the train this evening, it seemed like a good idea.
Firstly the house, we've confirmed all the conditions we stated on the contract, and all the checks came back fine, there is a bit of work needing doing, but nothing major, so now the only condition we have to fullfill is the sale of the house. On that front, we had a lady through for the second time last weekend, and she wanted to come through for a third look (promising), but she fell off her horse, and is unable to come again for a while, also he partner thinks it might be a bit too far out. Hopefully she'll be able to convince him otherwise, and be up and about soon! As a backup plan, we've got a couple of open homes, 1 this weekend and another the weekend after, and a fair bit of advertising to coincide with the open homes too. Fingers crossed.
On the farm front, it's not all good news, we unfortunatly lost a goat a few weeks ago. Klaus (the Christmas day goat), we healthy and happy one day, and the next morning was scouring (poopy), and then by 5pm he was dead! From the speed of it, we think it was barber pole worm, a particularly nasty worm that feeds off the blood of the host and kills them! We've drenched the rest, and, touch wood, no one else is showing signs.
On the happy side of the farm, Steph and I have been progressing in our NZQA General Farm Skills course, we've now completed the chainsaw, ATV, 2 wheel farm bike, and tractor driving segments. I passed the tractor driving one before I even got the tractor out of the shed...Just by observing me getting her out (the ground was slipping and traction wasn't great), and parking her up I covered everything he wanted to see!
The 2 wheel bike course was fun, and I think that if we get the other farm, I will have to get a bike to supplement the quad as it will be able to go alot of places the quad can't, but as with all these ideas, we have to sell the house first!
On the Connor front, yeah, the bit you've all be waiting for..He's fine......
Nah, I'm sure I can write a bit more, he's good, sleeping through the night. We don't think he is particulary close to walking, he can get around quite fast on all fours at the moment! One neat thing we did observe on Sunday was when Steph and I were reading to him (a pretty boring book with objects and animals of different colors etc), every time the image was a horse he made the horse sign, same for light, gloves, fish, dog,bird and cat. We think he might have attempted sheep/goat too, but might have got confused with horse (at the moment if an animal isn't a fish/dog/cat/bird, it must be a horse!) It's a neat party trick for a 1 year old! Just shows how much faster their brains develop in relation to their verbal skills!
One thing he has taken to is beating himself up, when he gets frustrated he tends to hit himself on the head, we're slowly dealing to it.
He's still going swimming once a week, and is still finding it great fun, if he had his way, it would just be submersions, but he's only allowed 6/day.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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