Oliver and Emily Jozwiak: January 2013

Hi everyone and happy 2013!!! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season :)

We had a lot of fun and both kids were excited for Christmas (Oliver more so of course!). They got a crazy amount of gifts (thank you cards will be out soon I promise!) so I need to have a bit of a clear out one of these days! Christmas does stress me out a little but it is so great to see the kids all excited and having so much fun :)

We spent New Year's Eve with some friends and the kids did well staying there until 10pm. Oliver passed out in the car but Emily stayed awake until we got home. No chance of a lie in though as Oliver got up at 6:30am! Back to school today thankfully - Oliver in particular needed it!

Of course it's freezing cold here. We had a 10 inch snowstorm a couple of weeks before Christmas so the winter has set in. Both kids enjoy sledding down the snowpile in the middle of our road. Emily has no fear at all. I even caught Oliver trying to ride his trike down it - thankfully I caught that before we needed a trip to the emergency room.....

Emily and I went to Oliver's winter party at kindergarten on the last day of term. He didn't know we were there until he came back into his classroom after the school sing along!! I think he was in shock! Today he asked me if I would be there again and he wants me to go in as a secret reader which is something they do each Friday. I will have to try and make it work one week :)

Swimming lessons start again tonight. Both kids have moved up a class so Oliver is now in Middle 2 and Emily is in Baby 4. I am very happy about this - in Baby 4 the parent gets phased out of the pool so my days getting freezing cold are numbered!! And if all goes well a trip to Applebees afterwards for dinner: Oliver has to complete a reading calendar for school each month and when he turns it in he gets a card for a free kids meal. He is so excited to use it so fingers and toes crossed for good behaviour!

My next task - potty training Emily. Ugh. Santa brought her some Hello Kitty underwear in the hope that it would encourage her! The timing is almost right as she sits on the potty a lot (pretending) and knows all about what goes on. We just need to work on her knowing when to go!! Anyway, enough info on that - I'll keep you posted on progress :)

Right - time for pics. I am having issues with videos again. Every time I cut and paste one over it puts the same one 3 times!! So I'm sorry you only have one - this is Oliver and some of his classmates singing to the mums who came to school to help with the party :) *I just published it and the wrong video was on it again so no videos - sorry :( I can email them to people if you are interested!