Brandon and I have been able to go on a few dates since we have a live-in-babysitter (my sister Abby) :-)
Last Saturday we went to Melbourne and heard Muscles acoustic. Muscles is a guy from Melbourne who makes electronic music. Yamaha is holding a series were they bring in different artists who play their music on...of course..a Yamaha piano. It was interesting listening to Muscles because he had to convert his electronic music to a form that he could play on a piano with no accompaniment.
He did a good job. You could hear the electronic beat slowed to work on a piano.
Fun stuff...going to see emerging artists, especially when they are playing outside of their normal comfort zone.
View from the "Roof Top Bar" where you can watch movies with the Melbourne skyline surrounding you.
I have taken on two new work projects. They are with different companies which is cool for me. It is good to get more experience outside of the company I am doing work for now.
One company manages rental properties and they wanted me to add and fix content that is on their site.
The other job is for a friend who is doing post-doc research. She is researching how i-pods can be used to help teach children with autism certain tasks. She wants me to be the one who loads all the content onto the i-pods and checks to make sure the children will be able to access everything easily.
Abby is going to New Zealand for a bit of exploring this coming weekend and the following week. The rest of us will be heading to Dixons Creek for the church family camp. We are just praying that the weather won't be too hot. The end of last week and the beginning if this week have been very hot. I think hovering around 37-38 would be safe to say as normal for that time period. Yesterday it was 39.7 when I checked. We are in autumn now, I guess we are experiencing an Indian summer.
The following weekend we are taking the youth fellowship group over to Frankston to have a group get together with the youth in Frankston (Blackwood kids and maybe others). We will stay Saturday night and go to the Frankston morning worship, have lunch, do our youth Bible study, and then try to make it home for our evening service. I am looking forward to spending a longer length of time with the kids. Car rides are always good for conversation.
Jolene continues to dance and is always reminding me that when she turns three she will be taking ballet lessons. That is true, she will be taking lessons and she will be the happiest girl in our house for a very long time. Right now she is happy enough looking at ballet books from the library and teaching herself some "moves".
Jolene in her ballet outfit.
Adele is stubborn what more can I say. She could walk but she just can't get her stubbornness out of the way. She is talking a bit more. I just discovered today that she is saying "papers" and "stick" now. I think she says a lot more that we know but her pronunciation is not as clear as Jolene's was at this age. Adele is making us work a bit more :-)
Baby X is doing fine. I had an appointment this morning and everything was normal, which I am thankful for.
Brandon continues to do his design work from home which is quite a luxury for us. I try not to abuse it...sometimes it is very tempting. Adele knows where he is and will crawl out to the shed were he works and bang on the door until he answers. I usually get a call on the intercom letting me know there is an intruder :-)
This is a bit to chew on so I will stop.
People on the beach doing some sort of martial arts:
4 comments:
I'm sure Abby doesn't mind babysitting at all. :) We are really looking forward to the youth gathering here! Hopefully there will be a few people besides Blackwoods... Yes, it has been crazily hot! But I don't mind it because I know it will start getting cold all too soon. That is very cute about Jolene wanting to do ballet. I'm sure she will be quite the little dancer. :) See you guys in a couple days, Lord willing!
Isn't it so nice having dates just the 2 of you? We've been able to leave the kids with my parents twice in the past couple of months to go out and it's been really nice! Glad to hear everything's going well with baby #3. When's your due date by the way? Love the picture of Jolene!
yeah, when is your due date? i just had the big ultrasound yesterday and everything is great...the baby is big but that's probably not anything surprising considering tom's 6'4" and I'm 5'8"! Yay :)
My due date is 08/08/08.
I am so glad to hear your updates. It is so cute to know Jolene wants to take ballet and that Adele's learning words. Awesome :) Good also that B's working from home....that's really comforting.
Cute pic of jolene!!
Janae Fisher
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