I was getting breakfast ready one morning last week and looked in the sitting room to find ALL 3 children with a spelling/counting flip-book! It was so cute that I had to grab the camera of course! It was just too funny that even Clement at only 8 months was doing the same as the others! :)
Playing in the kitchen!
This wooden parking garage seems to be a favourite of Clement's! I think it was a well spent 4 pounds (charity shop bargain, of course!).
Peek-a-boo! :-)
On Saturday it started snowing - with a white covering to the ground, the children were determined to make a snowman!
Even if he was a very tiny one! :-) If only they'd known what snow was coming over the next few days....We woke up the next morning to LOTS of snow - perhaps the most I've ever seen in my life (but since I'm from Texas, that's not surprising! ;-) ) I think we had about 6 inches! Thankfully we were able to "dig" the car out and go to church without too much difficulty, partly thanks to a neighbour giving our car a push to get it through the snow in the carpark. We had been invited to the manse for lunch after the service, which was really nice. We had a lovely meal and enjoyed the fellowship.
Back garden, taken from kitchen window
back garden & shed
Front garden and our car in the background!
The snow was still there on Monday and the children finally got out to play in it that afternoon. They made a bigger snowman, but we didn't get a pic of him until today (Tuesday) as seen above, with some sunshine too! Still lots of snow though, and it was snowing again tonight! Brrrrr! On Monday we went to the shops and got a week's worth of food in the house in case it got worse. So I'm just staying home until it thaws! :-)
My big, fat, healthy, happy, always hungry, darling Clement! :-D And yes, I love him to pieces (as I do all my children, of course!). But Clement just gives the best of smiles and always cheers everyone up! :)
He *loves* to watch the washing machine and dryer going round & round - esp watching the bubbles! I was trying to get a photo of him grabbing at it and looking very interested, but as soon as he heard my camera, he came after me! He's now learned that the camera has a little screen with him on it and he begs to see it - so it might be more difficult now to get photos of him! :) He's just about got 2 teeth now too and is almost properly crawling, though he still moves faster by pulling himself along with one arm tucked under him - he almost looks like a crippled person trying to move! Don't suppose there's much else to report here. Benjamin's eczema stays about the same as it's been for the past couple of months now. It goes back and forth in how severe it is. We probably are using Eumovate (moderate potency steroid) for a couple of days every 10-12 days or so. I try to go as long as possible without it, but sooner or later he's scratching too much to do anything else. But thankfully it's really his hands/arms/wrists that are actually severely affected with the eczema. He still had it behind his knees but nothing bad (probably mainly because it's always covered with clothes) and a patch on his foot has returned slightly. But it's just a wonderful blessing to see him so much better than he was 6 months ago. And the fact that he nearly always sleeps through the night is amazing in itself, as parents of eczema children often talk about their children who are 3 and 4 times his age, and who've never slept through the night. He does wake up on occasions, but 6 months ago he was waking sometimes nearly every hour, or being awake and scratching for 1-2 hours solid. So we have a lot to be thankful for in this regard! And I've started giving him some liquid vitamins to see if we can build up his immune system at all to reduce the colds/bugs he seems to catch!
OK, it's ever so late, I must get to sleep!
