All right so I thought I would put up a bunch of random photos that I have taken with my phone from the fall/mostly winter season. We are just about to head into spring and I want to make sure I have some of our random things here from the past season.
Picking up Daddy from a flight one night
GQ model, ok not GQ because they can be quite raunch but he's got the looks! This was waiting for a taxi one morning when we were picking up the old smobi car from the shop. Ej loves riding in taxi's-probably because it rarely happens. Funny thing-the car was stolen again that night....boo!
The awesome jacuzi tub we had when we stayed down in Byron bay in May. We had quite a few family baths in this tub through that weekend. It was great. It was like having our own hot tub without worrying about sharing it. Absolutely wonderful!
Such a little cutie. Cant find this hat now...which is sad. It actually fits the Mr. Moon (he bought it for himself a few years back) but it fits Ej as well...the hat just doesnt stretch around his head. And yes he was buckling into the car without a car seat. It was one of those moving the cars around and didnt want to switch the car seat because it was a block or something. You dont need to scold me, I know.
Ej enjoying some sushi at the mall. He is lucky he is in a place where seafood is so prevalent and fresh and good. He loves shrimp and although he usually picks a chicken roll I am so glad that he likes sushi. Here this is a very cheap way to eat while out. Sushi rolls run around $2 or just over which is the cheapest "fast food" you can find and its healthy to boot!
A friend offered me a ticket last minute to the Jabbawockeez when her husband couldnt attend with her and I had a blast. They were a great show!
Our favorite cold weather drinks here. There is no swiss miss hot chocolate, but there is Cadbury and its wonderful! Milo is an aussie favorite and Ej prefers this to cocoa. Its a barley drink but flavored sweetly. The caramel flavoring is for my cocoa...mmm..mm.good for the couple of months cool enough for these drinks.
One night Ej followed the example of his father and gave me a foot rub and leg rub. It was great. Hopefully he keeps that up!
Not a great face for the little man but in June our friends had a sweet little girl and they named her Sommer-yep after me! I feel very honored and special that she is my namesake. She is a sweet little one and I grab her up as much as I can and take in all her baby goodness!
One night our family went to Southbank and the friday night markets were up. There is always a booth on the end that sells corn on the cob, a favorite of my little man and mine. We each scooped one up that night, we didnt want to share.
The night of the Jabbawockeez show-dont know how these pics got out of order
Ej got a nasty cold. Because he tend to have asthma symptoms it usually goes into his chest. I thought we may have bypassed it this time, until the end and then it hit him hard. He actually had an asthma attack in the car on the way home from shopping one night, when it was just me and him. I was a bit panicked. I was trying to get home as quick as possible to get him on the nebulizer-meanwhile it was pouring rain and the windshield wiper (aka-windscreen here) busted off on my driving side. Luckily a light turned red and I was able to fix it well enough to get home. This was Ej the next morning getting another treatment. Luckily he is old enough now that he sits well for them and doesnt fight them, even asks for them sometimes when he is coughing a lot.
For my birthday I bought tickets for the cirque du soliel show "Ovo". It was awesome and although you can not take any pictures inside I was able to take a few outside the big top as we waited to enter. This show was better than ka and Love in our opinion but I know everyone thinks differently on the cirque shows. Our favorite is still mystere of all the ones I have mentioned though.
After the smobi being stolen a second time we finally ended up selling it for parts. We didnt want to put any more money into it to fix it up to make it road worthy to sell, we didnt want to risk parking it anywhere long for fear of our bad luck and it getting stolen a third time, and I would not even touch the cursed thing until the tow truck came to get it because every time I drove it, that night it would get stolen. Seriously the police were very suspicious of me the last time I reported it stolen. Here Ej is holding the plates (since we could not keep them as souveniers) as a memory of the experience before shipping them in to get proper paperwork finished.
A beautiful but cool afternoon with Ej riding his scooter around the garden of our flat and me soaking up the beauty of where we live. I get caught up sometimes in the daunting duties of everyday life in a foreign country that I have to remind myself to stop taking things for granted. Seriously we live in such an amazing place.
Mr. Moon and I waiting to head into Ovo
I have a plan to sit down and write a bit of my every day life living as an american in australia soon. You know the nitty gritty stuff that most people dont think about. Stay tuned...
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