Life has gotten a lot busier now that Deborah is crawling around the house and wanting to get out the front door! :) She *loves* being outside and cries if someone shuts the door. It's a lot of fun having her follow us around the house.
My lovely Benjamin looking happy to have his new ear defenders! He's finding them quite helpful when life gets to noisy, as they lower the sound without blocking everything out.
Deborah's first taste of cookie dough! :) One of her siblings dropped the spoon into the floor and she thought it was delicious!
Last week (after a number of dark and rainy days) we took the children to a park in Alness and had a picnic and they had fun playing and climbing.
Clement who is always up for adventure!
Nearly at the top!
Excited to be out of mummy's reach!
At the look out tower
Abigail climbing
And smiling :)
Boys and their daddy
Biggest 3 waiting for their lunch
All 4 of my dear children
My boys
Deborah on the trampoline
Deborah looking cute - and nearly ready to leap like a frog!
I found a bike, says Deborah! :)
Drawing in mummy's cook books - oops! She loves pencils and crayons and always wants to use them whenever she finds them
Standing up! She'll be walking before we know it!
On Thursday we went to visit our "local standing stone" (better photo below). The children were learning about Stonehenge in history, so I wanted them to get a better idea of what ancient stones were like, though this is nothing like the size of ones in other places - and just a single large one too!
Peter and children with the stone behind them - and the sun in their eyes!
showing a "modern" Pictish carving of a salmon - carved around 500AD, but the stone is likely to be around 3500 years old
across the road from the single large standing stone is what's left of a circle of stones. If you look at this document here, you'll see how the stones are positioned: http://her.highland.gov.uk/hbsmrgatewayhighland/DataFiles/LibraryLinkFiles/38339.pdf the grass/bushes rather hid them at first. But straight across from the one in the bottom of the photo is one to the left of the bush, and then directly across (not quite visible) is the large standing stone, and hills in the background. A theory shown in above link is that these stones were all positioned in such a way to measure time/seasons (a calendar!), which is quite remarkable! The well-known Stonehenge was likely used in a similar way.
Clach Biorach, which means The Pointed Stone. Located in Edderton, in a field of cows! :) It's likely to be around 3500 years old!!
Getting excited and pointing to more stones!
Going on a hunt for stones!
One of the smaller ones
3 of the stones from the circle
Abigail with the largest of the small stones in the circle
stone again
the left edge of the photo shows Clach Biorach and to the right of the photo is the circle of stones
walking back to the car
the field with the large standing stone
Clement with the stones from the circle
Life has gotten a lot busier now that Deborah is crawling around the house and wanting to get out the front door! :) She *loves* being outside and cries if someone shuts the door. It's a lot of fun having her follow us around the house.
My lovely Benjamin looking happy to have his new ear defenders! He's finding them quite helpful when life gets to noisy, as they lower the sound without blocking everything out.
Deborah's first taste of cookie dough! :) One of her siblings dropped the spoon into the floor and she thought it was delicious!
Last week (after a number of dark and rainy days) we took the children to a park in Alness and had a picnic and they had fun playing and climbing.
Clement who is always up for adventure!
Nearly at the top!
Excited to be out of mummy's reach!
At the look out tower
Abigail climbing
And smiling :)
Boys and their daddy
Biggest 3 waiting for their lunch
All 4 of my dear children
My boys
Deborah on the trampoline
Deborah looking cute - and nearly ready to leap like a frog!
I found a bike, says Deborah! :)
Drawing in mummy's cook books - oops! She loves pencils and crayons and always wants to use them whenever she finds them
Standing up! She'll be walking before we know it!
On Thursday we went to visit our "local standing stone" (better photo below). The children were learning about Stonehenge in history, so I wanted them to get a better idea of what ancient stones were like, though this is nothing like the size of ones in other places - and just a single large one too!
Peter and children with the stone behind them - and the sun in their eyes!
showing a "modern" Pictish carving of a salmon - carved around 500AD, but the stone is likely to be around 3500 years old
across the road from the single large standing stone is what's left of a circle of stones. If you look at this document here, you'll see how the stones are positioned: http://her.highland.gov.uk
Clach Biorach, which means The Pointed Stone. Located in Edderton, in a field of cows! :) It's likely to be around 3500 years old!!
Getting excited and pointing to more stones!
Going on a hunt for stones!
One of the smaller ones
3 of the stones from the circle
Abigail with the largest of the small stones in the circle
stone again
the left edge of the photo shows Clach Biorach and to the right of the photo is the circle of stones
walking back to the car
the field with the large standing stone
Clement with the stones from the circle
2 comments:
Your children truly are beautiful - I love the rainbow baby legs :-) and the ear defenders - a great idea my 5yo has often been sensitive to loud noises couldn't even stand worship in church if it was loud, never thought of anything like that!!
Yes, Benjamin is the same about worship at church - though no one else would think it's loud, as it's a relatively small group of people singing Psalms without any musical instruments! :) So really, it's rather quiet in terms of what many people would think of as noisy. But part of the problem is probably voices surrounding him - coming from different directions. And also, just what is known as a "sensory overload" - he's sensitive to lights as well, and just people's voices talking at times too. We first noticed him covering his ears during singing at church when he was about 18 months old and he's always seemed bothered by it ever since - though had occasional times when he was just about OK, or even wanted to join in singing! But sadly it never lasted for very long, and we don't even know what made him change briefly. But in recent months he's really been unable to cope with it and would burst into tears when the singing started - even finding it difficult with singing during family worship at home. :( Sooo, finally we decided to try some ear defenders and he seemed *so* much calmer after church the first time he used them - quite a different person. They're easy to take on & off, so he was able to remove them during the sermon when he was coping better. And the good thing is that they aren't blocking his hearing - just lowering the volume! I tried taking him out to the evening service (which I haven't been able to do for quite a few months now) and whilst he coped better than he would have done without them, I think two services in one day just totally overloads him. So I guess for now I'll just have to stick with the morning service, and hopefully he'll be able to enjoy it better with being able to hear everything at a lower volume. :)
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