Here are some highlights.
Danny has changed careers. He has left the insurance industry and, after a long road of hard work, he is a full time pilot and flight instructor. He actually Likes his job! It's meant a few changes for us all - he now works every weekend, and pretty long hours. His days off are Wednesdays and Thursdays, which I don't work either, so we have ourselves a mid-week weekend.
Sophie has started swimming lessons - I take her there every Saturday morning for half an hour. she's learning to blow bubbles, paddle kick, and not freak out when she gets water splashed in her face. It's great fun - loads of laughs.
Dan's new schedule has led to other changes. We've started going to a new church - right across the road from the aeroclub where Danny works. He meets us there Sunday evening right after he gets off work, so we can still manage to go to Mass together as a family, which means a lot to us.
What else...
On our last "weekend," Danny and I went out and bought my Christmas present- a new camera. and then we took it for a test run with about 400 photos of Sophie in the backyard. You can see a few of them here. I think I'll put up a few more on Facebook. Umm... I might get just a little bit photo happy with this camera. I'm really liking it :)
Sophie is finally keen to walk. In the past month, she wants to be on her feet all the time. Now she pulls up on things, pushes around anything that will move, and climbs up on parents and walks them around wherever she chooses to go. She can walk with just one hand, and has just started letting go to stand for a few seconds before plopping. She's even tried lunging forward on her own a few times, but it's a quick and smiling crash. Still, at the moment, it's all about the wobbly walking everyday. :)
She likes to feed herself. She's quite good at it now, depending on what the food is. Some things are easier to actually get onto the spoon than others. She's quite an expert with yoghurt.
More events... We went to an airshow on a Saturday a few weeks back, and had a blast. A long, hot, tiring, wonderful day. I'm making a digital scrapbook of it. I just can't help myself.
Also we just got back from our first little trip away. We spent 2 days and one night on Moreton Island with Wayne & Kate and the girls. It's a little sand island just accross the bay from Brisbane. It took about an hour and a half to get there by boat. Sophie had her first boat ride, her first play on the beach, and her first night sleep away from home (since the hospital). It all went really well! A scrapblog and facebook photos of that coming soon too.
Today we're resting and enjoying being home. Next week I'm back to work, and yep, that's going well too. We're in the last term of the year - the busiest one. Just 8 weeks left of the school year, and then we're off North for Christmas!
Lots of love,
alicia and the happy little Smith family.
