Addy found a comfy reading spot in the toddler class today while we greeted new parents 

And these crazies, “take a photo dad!” Happy, Gappy and Sappy. 

Adam loves to climb and the stairs have a great appeal, so we installed a simple gate to prevent any unsupervised climbing. As a quick way to get around it, Eli uses his “secret way” to circumvent the gate and goes through two of the bars that are wider on the banister. Adam has clearly been watching, and biding his time….

Grace has become a voracious reader so regular trips to the library are needed to keep feeding the reading machine. Eli also likes to stock up on new story books and was super happy to find baskets of Christmas stories, so we brought a number of those home too. Fortunately we have a lovely library here in Somerset West.

Grace lost her other front tooth yesterday, leaving her now waiting for her two front teeth for Christmas.

Time to weigh in…in the red corner we have:

• Grace, weighing in at 24kg
• Eli, weighing in at 18kg
• and last, but not least, Adam, weighing in at 13kg.

Adam also continues to learn useful skills like opening a door and bashing more things (just harder this time).

Adam is 13 months old today! 13 months seems to have brought a new swagger and waddle to his walk as he confidently traverses the entire length of a room now – still a bit wobbly, but getting more and more distance without having to stop for a break. The desire to climb his siblings chairs, open the window and try to climb out of it is slightly disturbing though.

Adam took his climbing and sleeping to a new level – he can now climb up the slide and last night he slept through all the way until 05h00! Sleep is always erratic, but let’s hope that this holds at least for a while so that Donné can start to feel more like a normal person again.

These three really are good bath buddies – Addy in the middle observing, with the other two being examples of the level of crazy required to be a part of our family.