We have had a couple weeks of adventures and gear up to starting back to school NEXT WEEK!
The weather has finally warmed up and with it the humidity has skyrocketed. At least for our perception of if! The temps were hitting 90 regularly with tolerable humidity, but the rains have begun and with it the moisture level goes waayyyy up! The AC has been a HUGE relief, especially at night so we can sleep. I try to not run it during the day as it gets super expensive really fast, and as they only bill you every 3 months here, a $900 electric bill is small potatoes in weather like this. Me, I prefer to not have those, so ration the comfort. We just shut the doors to our room and the kids can sleep on the floor in air conditioned comfort! Just have to watch for them if you have to get up to pee in the middle of the night. They move from where they started! With the rising moisture the cicadas really have tuned up as well. They are deafening at times and go on all. night. long. Yet another reason to worship the AC! Shut the windows and turn on the unit and the white noise drowns them out somewhat.
A momentous occasion for Ian this last week! He lost 2 teeth before our trip to Newcastle! On was finally pulled out on Friday night, the other on Saturday night. We were thrilled as was he. The tooth fairy delivered his dated silver dollars and we traded them for Aussie gold $1 coins for him to spend. He has been hauling the money around in his pocket for the last week agonizing over what to spend it on! Here is a pic of the second tooth which he pulled in the bath. Little dental floss and lots of tugging and out it popped!
The weather has finally warmed up and with it the humidity has skyrocketed. At least for our perception of if! The temps were hitting 90 regularly with tolerable humidity, but the rains have begun and with it the moisture level goes waayyyy up! The AC has been a HUGE relief, especially at night so we can sleep. I try to not run it during the day as it gets super expensive really fast, and as they only bill you every 3 months here, a $900 electric bill is small potatoes in weather like this. Me, I prefer to not have those, so ration the comfort. We just shut the doors to our room and the kids can sleep on the floor in air conditioned comfort! Just have to watch for them if you have to get up to pee in the middle of the night. They move from where they started! With the rising moisture the cicadas really have tuned up as well. They are deafening at times and go on all. night. long. Yet another reason to worship the AC! Shut the windows and turn on the unit and the white noise drowns them out somewhat.
A momentous occasion for Ian this last week! He lost 2 teeth before our trip to Newcastle! On was finally pulled out on Friday night, the other on Saturday night. We were thrilled as was he. The tooth fairy delivered his dated silver dollars and we traded them for Aussie gold $1 coins for him to spend. He has been hauling the money around in his pocket for the last week agonizing over what to spend it on! Here is a pic of the second tooth which he pulled in the bath. Little dental floss and lots of tugging and out it popped!
This is the first tooth out below. Please note that he is shirtless because it is really pointless to make him wear much more than a pair of knit boxers in this weather! When we go out, he does put on clothes. . .
On the change front, Lyle has been working a LOT down in Newcastle, which is about 2 hours north of Sydney. We spent a week down there with him so we could check out the area as they are interested in having him come to work for them permanently. It would be a nice position for him as he would be running their technical department. It was downsized the last couple of years, but they are looking to ramp it back up and want someone who knows what he is doing to get it back. It is also a facility with plenty of room for improvements which he has been helping with. It isn't as warm and humid as Brisbane, and some new territory to explore in Sydney! So, we wait and see what is going to come of it. In the meantime, things keep trucking along here, and if it doesn't work, we will do just fine here!
I have to close with a picture of Alex's new boots! She absolutely loves them (frankly, so do I!). I love her sense of style with them. She wears with a short pair of shorts, tank and messenger cap. Thankfully they have zippers, so she doesn't have to do all the eyelets and hooks. Also, a blast from the past picture here of Alex. This was our first Christmas in Massena, NY on her bouncy horse. She was all of 19 months old here!
The weather has been interesting these last few days. There was a cyclone (hurricane) way north of us that crossed the peninsula above Cairns named Oswald, and with the Aussie penchant for nicknames, it is known as Ozzie. It is now following the coast and heading south, not quite reforming into a cyclone, but wreaking havoc as a tropical depression/storm. Lots of flooding in it's wake and some confirmed waterspouts and small tornadoes on the Sunshine Coast. Just happens to be Australia Day weekend and a big BBQ weekend. Think 4th of July being rained out for the week and you get the feeling! Needless to say, we are doing our cooking indoors!
Next blog topic, back to school! Alex starts High School and the littles continue at the primary. Pictures will be put on FB, emailed, and put up here next time I write!
Love you all!
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