The Dower Family

Our goal for 2012 (among all the usual stuff) is to get Ollie able to read. He and I have been working on this a fair bit lately using a program called Reading Eggs. The results have been pretty amazing. Please don't think I've gone all stage mum on this. He absolutely LOVES doing it and asks me a million times a day if he can do it. It has actually become my substitute for television when I need to achieve things like putting Evie to sleep and getting ready in the morning. I think the results speak for themselves...

The lack of blog of late can be partially explained by our recent cruise adventure. We were lucky enough to be treated a wonderful family holiday aboard Radiance of the Seas by Nanna Freddy who took us, Aunty Alicia & Uncle Guy, Aunties Zoe & Peta and Cousin Jackson along to celebrate Poppy Mick's 60th birthday. The cruise sailed out of Sydney which meant that we had to make our way down there the day before. This was to be Evie's first plane trip and Ollie's 13th. Ollie was a trooper and didn't even mind that he wasn't sitting with us, instead he was with Nanna & Poppy. This should have made it easier for us with Evie but unfortunately it didn't. This probably was a combination of a significant delay on the tarmac and an overtired baby. Once we were up in the air Evie thought it would be good to treat the other passengers to 20 odd minutes of crying. But eventually she settled in to sleep, and then we pretty much commenced our descent. Thank

The big news around here this week is that Miss Evie Peevey is sitting up ALL BY HERSELF! A big pile of cushions is still required and definitely not on any hard surfaces but this is still a huge development. I tried to get a good pic of it for you all but it was more of an action shot - in the split second before she keeled over! This week also saw Ollie and Eve going to have needles. I have been dreading taking them both along but it seemed like the obvious thing to do. Ol, not having had a needle in a long time, clearly forgot what was involved as when I told him he was only getting one while Evie had to get two, he started complaining that he wanted two as well. Probably the most painful part of the whole experience for me was the waiting room. Why do doctors have to keep you waiting for at least an hour? Thanks to the wonders of iphone games it wasn't too bad but once Ollie grew tired of the games he thought it would be a great game to point to all the people in the roo