Quick update.

Owen's passport came in yesterday! Soo, all being well, in about a weeks time we should be boarding a plane with three children under three...oh dear! :S I've been consoling myself with the thought that Sam will be still with us then...but still if they all decide to do some screaming fits it won't be a very fun ride...likely they'll enjoy the excitement (or Amy will). :)

I've been rushing with these baby announcements and thank you's...I've done too many this afternoon, but at least most are done for the UK. And you think you save time by ordering cute announcements...I guess not when you have three needing attention!

John and Sam are up in Inverness for the weekend (communion season) so a quiet weekend at home for us I suppose.

Next week is a big week...full of seeing doctors, cleaning and packing... I sense tiredness and exhaustion but look forward to some relaxation at the end. Maybe.

I likely won't be updating this much next week or for the next 6 weeks while in Canada (sorry!). I think I need some time off for awhile. So till then, I shall say bye!

My Indian...

Here's promised video clip!


And Owen...

I'm surprised at how much he looks like Amy!

Ok he looked too cute in this outfit...yes the jeans should really be a brown or beige colour I think, but I think this vest (ahem, jumper?) is so cute (Thanks to Nome for knitting it!)

Hmm...Somehow he looks like me here. :S

It is sooo difficult to get any photos of these kids sitting down and looking at the camera...well, here is the back of them I thought it was quite neat.

Jett's presbytery exam went well, and they were "satisfied"...as well as his sermon. I'm glad that is over for him! Yesterday Jett and myself and wee Owen trucked off to the Consulate (Edinburgh) and finally got things sorted...well, it should be! We should have his birth certificate and passport within 10 days (hopefully sooner than that!). This morning was hectic...hmm, I think almost every moment lately is hectic! One thing goes wrong and then another and so on. Well, this morning was like that. I was changing Owen's diaper when I realized he wasn't quite finished and he made my bed wet...and his as well...sooo, here I was stripping off the mybed (after I put a diaper on him that is) and then his bed. The kids needed baths this morning so I was occupied cleaning them. And now they are cranky and crying, what to do! Ok better run...

Pictures of the Owen

I was trying to find the video of my Cherokee indian but I think it was on Sam's cam that I filmed it...and he being in Glasgow just now with the said cam I assume, I can't post it just now...next post maybe!

Jett just now is taking his Presbytery exam...am quite nervous for him. I hope he does well. He has been studying so hard these past weeks! I will be glad it is behind him though. Tonight he preaches in Glasgow as well so another thing to be praying about. And myself, I am here at home with the kids...and managing sooo far. I don't know how well it will go when all three are crying and needing attention...but .... oh at least two of them just started (A & A)... *sigh* these kids never seem to know how to play nicely, or SHARE! If anyone wants one of the hardest jobs in the world it is raising children...properly (notice the last word). Anyways on to the pictures...

LOL...my camera takes several flashes before taking the picture and thus he squinted... heehee, looks comical if you ask me.

Looking kind of odd... sorry I'm bad at taking pictures.

Mommy and baby.

I am so glad I never got rid of my Boppy...I haven't found the equivalent in this country (I mean I know they have something similar but nothing I think is quite as nice as mine.) Here he is exercising his neck...which is quite strong.

Yes, out of order sorry...here he is starting to go to sleep again.

And that is all for now. Tomorrow is the big day for his passport and citizenship...must go and reread their website as they always seem to be changing something! :S

Amy had her renal ultrasound done last friday. We won't know any results till the 29th (our next appointment with Dr. Macleod)...as well we get to have skin tests done that day... not looking forward to that...can't imagine it will be pain free... :( Now onwards to get more laundry hung up...a tumble dryer sounds nice just about now...but one day soon. :)

A short update on the everyday life...

Which can be dull I do say. Ah well, it seems like time is just passing so fast. It seems yesterday that I was waiting terribly impatiently for Baby to come, and now he has come and already he is two weeks old.

So, I never said that Jett's computer decided to stop working a few days before baby arrived so we've had someone take it and fix it...and don't ask me what all happened to his poor machine but it now works. Another bonus was that Jett bought 2 gbs of ram for my laptop which was running on only 256 mb (yes Megabytes NOT gigabytes)...sooo it runs a huge amount faster meaning less time waiting around for things to load and therefore less time on the machine in the end. :)

Last week we went to the US Consulate to start paper work on Owen, but we were only turned away because they had just changed things and we needed to have an appointment first... I can't help it but THIS ALWAYS happens to me!!!! Always something with the US immigration or US Customs or US something or another...rather aggravating, and very upsetting since I felt I wasted Jett's time driving down to Edinburgh and then back to Perth when he could have been studying for his Presbytery exam which is next week already!

Our tests are coming up for this TSC thing. Although Amelia's renal ultrasound is supposed to be done this Friday...another thing to sort out as these are times again that Jett would have to set time aside for...which he really doesn't have.

The communion season here in Perth is over now, most of you probably didn't know we were having communion here this past weekend, likely due to me not being able to attend much at all. Rev. Neil Ross was here to take the services, and it was very nice to see him and Mrs. Ross again. Owen was baptized Monday night by Rev. Cartwright (making it his second child from our family to baptize). Owen was well fed just before so he was sleepy and really didn't make much of a noise so I got to enjoy the address before the actual baptism.

Anyways, that is my sloppy post, and expect more like these as I really can't be spending time editing things such as grammar, punctuation marks, and run on sentences (and so on). I'm trying to work on getting more pictures of the new babe, and of my other wee ones, as well I just caught Aaron acting so funny on video...I think it is the Cherokee indian coming out in him lol! ;)

Until then I must get off and try to have an early night...

Meer fotos :) (and videos)

But not many...sorry, I'm really getting bad at this! Busy busy busy describes life right now, but things are still surprisingly relaxing (but only because Sam is here!!!). Yesterday we went to Edinburgh to sort out Owen's passport and citizenship only to be turned away because they just changed it that you had to have an "appointment" rather than just walk in... *sigh* I was upset but ah well, hopefully we'll get it done in the next two weeks.

Here is Owen, sleeping away...

And here is Uncle Sam tickling A & A

Your turn Amy!

Congrats to the new babies just arrived in the past week and so on! Lovely to hear all the baby news. :)

I'm discovering (again and again and yet again) that Aaron is a pig. I made popcorn for the first time for the kids and of course, Amy doesn't like it (or thinks its disgusting, so her look suggested!) Aaron looked rather inquisitive, had a taste and then tried to devour the whole bowl full of it...heehee!

And since most of you can't see the wee manny here he is in video.

And now I must go and get lunch sorted and get Owen as he is starting to stir and almost scream. One thing about him, he has good lungs... :)