Aussie's in Scotland

The toothless chef

Here is Iain helping with dinner. He's wearing his paper apron and paper chef's hat which he made at school, and he's missing three, soon to be four teeth!

Iain has almost finished a half a year of schooling, and to be honest it's been a bumpy journey.  He is excelling with his school work, because to date he is yet to learn anything that he didn't already know before starting school. Because of this, and the fact that he is bored, his behaviour has not been fantastic. We've been working with the the teachers on it, but I'm not sure if I see it drastically improving. While there are provisions made for students who are struggling to learn, academically advanced students are expected to work at the same rate as the rest of the class. I think if he were in a school elsewhere we wouldn't be having such a problem, but unfortunately we don't have any other options. 

Apart from school, Iain is enjoying Rugby, and like his Lego and Meccano at the moment.  We have bought him a digital camera for Christmas which I think he will love, and will mean he (hopefully) stops stealing mine! 

Slackest blogger in the history of the universe

I think I win that award hands down. I think it's been over two months since I last wrote here, and it's not as if I have nothing to say.

As I sit here at 10:30 am in the morning, I am looking out the window watching snow fall and settle on the ground. Quite a rare thing for Montrose at this time of year I think.

   

Today Iain and Stuart are off to Aberdeen to watch Scotland play Canada in Rugby, while Gus and I will hang out at home. Hopefully the boys won't get too cold with all this snow.

Our family is off on a one month holiday home in exactly three weeks time. We're spending two weeks with Stuart's family, and two weeks with mine.  I'm dreading the 30 hour journey, but due to fact that I am going to be very uncomfortable jammed into one of those airplane seats, and not the fact that I am anticipating the worst with the kids.  We still have a few things I need to organise before we go, like Christmas presents, some summer maternity clothes, etc.

Believe it or not I am nearly fully ready for our baby to arrive! I jumped in early seeing as we'll be away for a month, and once we get back I'm not going to feel like doing much. We painted what will be the babies room, I re-purchased a lot of stuff I used to have but sold, and, my personal favourite bit, I got to go and buy lots of clothes. We had our 20 weeks ultrasound a few weeks back, and we discovered that after two perfect little boys, we're having just what we always wanted....but everyone else will have to wait until March to discover what that is! I'm 24 weeks pregnant today, and to be quite honest, I am rather large.

In October we took a 4 day trip to Euro Disney, and we all had an absolutely wonderful time. The way the kids face's lit up, and the joy in their smiles was enough to make the trip worth while. We stayed at the Disney Cheyenne Hotel, and we're lucky that the park was pretty empty while we were there so we got to have heaps and heaps of rides. Iain enjoyed Peter Pan, and Pirates if the Caribbean the most, while Gus enjoyed Dumbo.  Here are some pictures from the trip.