Rain rain go away!

So much rain here lately! It is definitely feeling like a wet season now!
Honestly, I was wondering what everyone was whinging about when they said
that the wet season was awful! But Hello! The second last week of the "wet season"
and here it is! We have buckets under different parts of our house where the roof is leaking!
Andrew had to climb on the roof to check out what was going on! But the real adventure
was trying to figure out how to get back down!! Ahh So much fun!

This week has been pretty uneventful- Just packing, cleaning and more packing! We headed to Mackay yesterday to pick up some toys for Noah. We got a second hand jitter buggy (toy car) but he is way too small for it and also got a second hand Lamaze tummy time mat! He loves it! His cousin Evie has a similar one and he loved it when we visited so decided to get one!

Totally another day!----- I don't get much time to write on this blog but I find it really good to get out what i'm feeling and to reflect on how far we have come.

I had a bit of a mummy stress this week over Noahs development. He is perfect socially, in fact he is the most social baby I have ever met! He smiles and coos and talks to everyone and everything. But he just lays there- Unless he's feeling particularly  gassy he will just lay there and coo. Funny how two short weeks ago I was so frustrated and upset with how sad he was and now i'm upset about how happy he is about not doing anything! But in comparison to babies around his age he wasn't very "mobile" He hated toys. Every toy I showed him he would cry at, he would even freak out and bury his face into my chest if I put him in front of a mirror. So this week was definitely "Operation Play Time". I pulled out every toy we had in the house and figured out what he did and didn't like. Noah LOVES faces, he loves singing (especially the animal sounds song!), He liked looking at lights, he loves the breeze and fresh air and the sound of rain.

So with this- I tried to find toys Noah liked. He hated the vibrating bird, he hated the crinkly elephant, he hated the bright colour frog. BUT I finally found something he liked- Those plastic links. I went out and bought more and clipped them everywhere. He grabs them, sings to them, puts them in his mouth. I never thought encouraging your child to play would be so difficult. Most people (everyone I have talked to) has told me to chill out, enjoy him but I was at a complete loss at to why Noah just hated toys. At the moment I believe that the toys are just over stimulating and a bit much especially after a day of music and walking.
I plan on spending a bit more "quiet" time encouraging playing and hopefully *fingers crossed* he starts loving toys!

Noah is getting so much better at sitting up! He has his bumbo but we also spend time without it and seeing how long he can sit up on his own for. :D He is still very chatty! And just so incredibly amazing. I cannot begin to explain to the love I have for him- A love that only a mother could ever understand.

There is this quote, "Making the decision to have a child in momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body."

This is so true. And I will never be the same- Andrew and I will never be the same. I never thought 12 short months ago that Andrew and I would be sitting here having an disagreement over Boys Brigade Vs Soccer! Or Private vs public schooling, or when is the right time to start swimming lessons. Twelve short months ago it was all about "us" and Now it is all about Noah! And it feels AMAZING!

ANYWAYS- Enough bragging about my little man!

We are all packed ready for our move tomorrow! The removalist picks up our things at lunch tomorrow and then we are here for two days (It was partially furnished so we will still have beds etc) while we clean and then staying in Sarina with other managers while we wait for our house to be finished. We were given the 25th of March for a move in date but unfortunately it looks like it will be delayed due to the heavy rainfall we had in the last few days.

But we CANNOT wait to move into our new place!! In the past week we've had "fun" at Laguna- Lots of flooding, The roof at our front door has decided to leak and start cracking!, the power went out quite a few times and the gas ran out *fun!* I kept saying to Andrew it was like very expensive camping! But honestly I will really miss this house. It is such an experience and you really have to live here to realise how magical it is :)

OHHHHHH!! Cannot forget to add! Andrew and I switched off the lights to hop into bed And Stood in AWE of fireflies! Yes real life fireflies! They were covering our windows with their beautiful lights :) We have been here for 6 months and that is the first time we have seen them :)

Anyways what alot of rambling :)

Thanks for reading
xx