Now that Oscar is definitely living the good life of a toddler, I am charged with keeping him entertained and learning, which is no small feat as we now spend 95% of our time at home I’m always on the lookout for fun ideas that are simple to put together but encourage him to explore and learn. Enter edible finger paint! My biggest issue at the moment is that Oscar is still very much a ‘taste-everything’ kind of kid, so if…
I have hesitated in writing this blog. Not quite agonised but perhaps procrastinated? It’s so hard to know what to say to people around me, people who I know well, let…
Mathias Track ticks a lot of our boxes these days when it comes to the perfect hike. With Oscar just having started to walk and increasingly unhappy in our soft carrier…
February is always a short month in my mind, even though this year it was technically one day longer (see you in another four years February 29th!), but even so I’m…
Is it weird to say that I’ve been excited about Oscar’s cake smash every since we brought him home from the hospital? A year ago his first birthday seemed like such a…
Well here we are already. Oscar is a one year old and this little photo project has come to an end after 12 months of watching this little boy grow up…
On a whim when the year ticked over, I decided that this year, 2020, was the year that I would do a 365 project. In fact it was such an unexpected…
It’s hard to believe that I thought it was hard to wrangle Oscar in a plane to Darwin back in August when he was a stubborn six-month-old. Now I know so…
Dean and I applied for the 820/801 Australian Partner Visa way back in 2015. Even now, almost five years later and very much on the other side of the process (he…
A new year has begun! Seems crazy to think last year we were so focused and excited for Oscar to arrive. Now his first birthday is literally weeks away! 🎁 🎉…
The best hike is the one that you’re actually going to do, and that’s what the Merri Creek Trail was for us. See, originally we had planned to tackle the Werribee…
