Happy Thanksgiving!

This will be the first Thanksgiving for a while that we haven't spent in the US with family. Still, we will be feasting on some bird and all the appropriate fixin's. Happy turkey day to everyone!

Caption Contest

Scarlett went to play with some friends today. Here they are chilling on the couch while we mums went out for a boozy lunch ... (just kidding).

What do you think was going through her mind though? Give me your suggestions in a comment!

Our baby's growing up!

Quite a few milestones hit at around six months and Scarlett seems to have left infancy in her tracks in a matter of days.

She finds looking around much more interesting than nursing so I have decided to express milk and feed her from a bottle to ensure she gets enough. Which means that we're now on the road to weaning. She has also started to eat some 'solids' (mashed banana and rice cereal so far). I'm sure she's finding it much easier to bite through that goop with the new tooth that appeared last week!

It's great to see her hitting all these milestones. Can't help but feel slightly nostalgic though ...

Here's a picture of Scarlett and her young friend Anna taken by Anna's mummy Karin.

No peace for the wicked

I sat my end of term exam last Thursday and it was a horrible experience. It was like living the recurring nightmare where I had a literature exam the next day and hadn't even read the book. I am fiercely against exams partly because I am just terrible at them but mostly because it does nothing to prove ability to apply new found knowledge.

So I had the weekend to recover and now it's back to the classroom. This term it's Online and Distributed learning. I'm already much happier because a) there's no exam (hurray!) and b)there is already quite lively use of the course discussion board so I'm hoping that it will be quite an interactive term.

Where there's a will ...

One of the most frequently asked questions when we returned from three weeks in Europe with (shock, horror) no nanny was "How was it travelling with two kids?".

The short answer is that it was absolutely fine. Perhaps our expectations of the experience were so low that we could only be pleasantly surprised or maybe our kids are exceptionally well behaved (!). In any case, we found that a positive attitude works wonders.

One evening we found ourselves walking the streets on a rainy evening with two sleeping children in our arms looking for a restaurant that was not full. Our search finally paid off and the picture shows me celebrating with a yummy margarita surrounded by sleeping beauties!