Perth week 9
13 - 19th June
On Monday night for our Family Home Evening - we learnt about the fourth Article of Faith . We got the kids to build steps on the whiteboard and we talked about each step and what it means. It always surprises me how much the kids know and how much they teach us. We then played some games, Chinese whispers, which was really funny playing with little kids and the animal noise game. Both games were very entertaining and it was a fun evening.
This week brought another week of sickness for our family but this time it came to us, the parents. Grant was off-work sick on Monday and Tuesday. I came down with it on Tuesday and it seemed to hit me hard for a few days. Hyrum who is totally besotted with his Dad right now was really excited to have Daddy home for a couple of days, and even when Grant was having a sleep in the day I found Hyrum asleep curled up next to him. (Hyrum hasn’t had a sleep in the day since he was 18 months old) it just shows his great love for his Dad, he will do anything to be close to him. On wed night my lovely friend Pipi brought me over a big pot of homemade soup with rolls, it was so kind and thoughtful of her, she definitely is an earthly angel.
It’s so neat watching the kids playing together, they all play so nicely with each other (most of the time, they are definitely not perfect). They are very creative in their play, lots of role playing games and inventing things - today they built their own helicopter outside and was busy for quite a while working together to build it. Which they later turned into a boat. I thought they did a great job!
Three days later the other tooth came out while Alysha was at pre-primary. Her teacher wrapped it up on cotton wool and put it in an envelope. This Alysha brought it home excitedly and put under her pillow when she went to sleep. The Tooth Fairy came again and again rewarded Alysha with a gold coin. Two visits by the fairy in one week! Now we call her “toothless”. (it’s very cute and she has even started to talk with a bit of a lisp)
On Friday I was feeling much better than earlier in the week, so we ventured out the house and took Hyrum and Gracie to the library for their reading and rhyme time. I think both the kids were really excited to get out of the house, and seem to really love their time at the library. After the session they do colouring-in, which Gracie really looks forward to. She queues up with all the other little kids to collect her colouring-in sheet to go and colour. She really loves her colouring in right now, as for Hyrum, he’s too busy trying to leave to go find his new books for the week.
In the evening I was blessed to go to the Temple. I left early so I could fit two session in. I was able to do baptisms which is something I haven’t done in such a long time. It was such a neat experience, I so love the temple I feel so blessed to be able to go to the temple and feel at peace, it is such a great blessing in my life.
On Saturday afternoon, we went to a church activity that they promoted as ‘A Wizard of Oz’ activity. A great part was that they took our kids off us and babysat them with a bouncy castle and other activities while we got to participate in the programme. It was an educational afternoon all about emergency preparedness. It was really well presented - Dorothy and Toto got caught up in a tornado and found themselves in OZ, without any food or water. Dorothy went to the scarecrow who shared with Dorothy (and the rest of us), all about being self sufficient, in food and water (a years supply). Dorothy went to the Tinman (who’s outfit was absolutely fantastic, but he got changed before we got a photo of him), and the Tinman shared with her (and the rest of us) about being financially self sufficient - to watch our pennies, spend less than we earn, get out of debt, and to save for a rainy day, and he also encouraged young families to own their own home. Dorothy then went and visited the Lion, who shared with her (and the rest of us) about 3 day emergency packs. It was very well done, complete with refreshments that had made from ingredients from people’s store cupboards.
I came away feeling that we are always full of excuses (our excuse at the moment is that we are in transition and will do once we are settled), and that we really should not be putting things off. The video they had sliced together of the disasters all over the World in the last 6 months was a really powerful way of posing the question “Are you ready?”
I was given an assignment by our Relief Society to start running a children’s music group at the Chapel for young Mum’s. (I did have a little laugh to myself as I didn’t realise you can be given that kind of assignment, I guess you can be assigned to do anything in the church).
So after much thought we created “Joey Jams children music group”. I will start this coming Thursday. I am very nervous about it, as they have never had a children’s music group running at our church over here, and because I still don’t know that many people here, I’m not sure whether people will come and support me. But i will try my best to get it up and running and we will see what happens.our website is www.joeyjams.org or Facebook search for joey jams
Until next time....
Funny Moments
Our Gracie (miss 2) was meant to be eating her lunch when I found her in the laundry. I asked her “why are you not eating your lunch?”, and she replied “cause I’ve done a poo in my nappy and it’s really poo stinky” When I checked her nappy she hadn’t done anything. - a great excuse.
Our Hyrum (mr 3) is very afraid of loud unknown noises at the moment. The other day we were travelling in the car and it started pouring with rain, The heavy rain on the car was really loud, and Hyrum who hated the loud noise started crying with his hands over his ears, saying “call Daddy, Daddy will fix it, Daddy can make the rain stop” - too cute, Daddy can fix anything. The second part to the story is that we called daddy, and Hyrum talked to him, and the rain did stop. Daddy can apparently now control the weather .
Our Alysha (miss 5) learn a valuable lesson this week - when coming out the bath, it’s not a great idea to put your towel over your head and spin around in circles, you might just fall down the stairs. - poor Alysha, she wasn’t hurt to badly, we had to try really hard not to laugh though.
13 - 19th June
On Monday night for our Family Home Evening - we learnt about the fourth Article of Faith . We got the kids to build steps on the whiteboard and we talked about each step and what it means. It always surprises me how much the kids know and how much they teach us. We then played some games, Chinese whispers, which was really funny playing with little kids and the animal noise game. Both games were very entertaining and it was a fun evening.
This week brought another week of sickness for our family but this time it came to us, the parents. Grant was off-work sick on Monday and Tuesday. I came down with it on Tuesday and it seemed to hit me hard for a few days. Hyrum who is totally besotted with his Dad right now was really excited to have Daddy home for a couple of days, and even when Grant was having a sleep in the day I found Hyrum asleep curled up next to him. (Hyrum hasn’t had a sleep in the day since he was 18 months old) it just shows his great love for his Dad, he will do anything to be close to him. On wed night my lovely friend Pipi brought me over a big pot of homemade soup with rolls, it was so kind and thoughtful of her, she definitely is an earthly angel.
It’s so neat watching the kids playing together, they all play so nicely with each other (most of the time, they are definitely not perfect). They are very creative in their play, lots of role playing games and inventing things - today they built their own helicopter outside and was busy for quite a while working together to build it. Which they later turned into a boat. I thought they did a great job!
Alysha’s front two bottom teeth have been wiggly for the past couple of weeks. As Grant was putting her to bed on Tuesday night, he noticed that she had a space where a tooth once was. Our baby girl had lost her first tooth! When asked, Alysha wasn’t even aware what had happened. She had been eating a carrot just before bed and we weren’t sure whether the tooth came off with the carrot and she swallowed it, or whether it came out earlier at pre-school and we didn’t notice. She didn’t have a tooth to put under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy to come and collect - so she wrote a letter to the Tooth Fairy, explaining what had happened, and asked the Tooth Fairy to find her tooth. She put the letter under her pillow, and in the morning, she woke to find a letter from the Tooth Fairy replying to say she had found tooth and rewarded Alysha with a gold coin.
Three days later the other tooth came out while Alysha was at pre-primary. Her teacher wrapped it up on cotton wool and put it in an envelope. This Alysha brought it home excitedly and put under her pillow when she went to sleep. The Tooth Fairy came again and again rewarded Alysha with a gold coin. Two visits by the fairy in one week! Now we call her “toothless”. (it’s very cute and she has even started to talk with a bit of a lisp)
On Friday I was feeling much better than earlier in the week, so we ventured out the house and took Hyrum and Gracie to the library for their reading and rhyme time. I think both the kids were really excited to get out of the house, and seem to really love their time at the library. After the session they do colouring-in, which Gracie really looks forward to. She queues up with all the other little kids to collect her colouring-in sheet to go and colour. She really loves her colouring in right now, as for Hyrum, he’s too busy trying to leave to go find his new books for the week.
In the evening I was blessed to go to the Temple. I left early so I could fit two session in. I was able to do baptisms which is something I haven’t done in such a long time. It was such a neat experience, I so love the temple I feel so blessed to be able to go to the temple and feel at peace, it is such a great blessing in my life.
On Saturday afternoon, we went to a church activity that they promoted as ‘A Wizard of Oz’ activity. A great part was that they took our kids off us and babysat them with a bouncy castle and other activities while we got to participate in the programme. It was an educational afternoon all about emergency preparedness. It was really well presented - Dorothy and Toto got caught up in a tornado and found themselves in OZ, without any food or water. Dorothy went to the scarecrow who shared with Dorothy (and the rest of us), all about being self sufficient, in food and water (a years supply). Dorothy went to the Tinman (who’s outfit was absolutely fantastic, but he got changed before we got a photo of him), and the Tinman shared with her (and the rest of us) about being financially self sufficient - to watch our pennies, spend less than we earn, get out of debt, and to save for a rainy day, and he also encouraged young families to own their own home. Dorothy then went and visited the Lion, who shared with her (and the rest of us) about 3 day emergency packs. It was very well done, complete with refreshments that had made from ingredients from people’s store cupboards.
I came away feeling that we are always full of excuses (our excuse at the moment is that we are in transition and will do once we are settled), and that we really should not be putting things off. The video they had sliced together of the disasters all over the World in the last 6 months was a really powerful way of posing the question “Are you ready?”
After the ‘Wizard of Oz’ activity, we decided to purchase some Chinese food for dinner and took it home. We had some chopsticks in the draw (home is furnished), and thought it’d be a fun experience for us all to use chopsticks. The kids thought it was fun and tried really hard to do it, but didn’t quite get it. It was really funny watching everyone try.
I was given an assignment by our Relief Society to start running a children’s music group at the Chapel for young Mum’s. (I did have a little laugh to myself as I didn’t realise you can be given that kind of assignment, I guess you can be assigned to do anything in the church).
So after much thought we created “Joey Jams children music group”. I will start this coming Thursday. I am very nervous about it, as they have never had a children’s music group running at our church over here, and because I still don’t know that many people here, I’m not sure whether people will come and support me. But i will try my best to get it up and running and we will see what happens.our website is www.joeyjams.org or Facebook search for joey jams
Funny Moments
Our Gracie (miss 2) was meant to be eating her lunch when I found her in the laundry. I asked her “why are you not eating your lunch?”, and she replied “cause I’ve done a poo in my nappy and it’s really poo stinky” When I checked her nappy she hadn’t done anything. - a great excuse.
Our Hyrum (mr 3) is very afraid of loud unknown noises at the moment. The other day we were travelling in the car and it started pouring with rain, The heavy rain on the car was really loud, and Hyrum who hated the loud noise started crying with his hands over his ears, saying “call Daddy, Daddy will fix it, Daddy can make the rain stop” - too cute, Daddy can fix anything. The second part to the story is that we called daddy, and Hyrum talked to him, and the rain did stop. Daddy can apparently now control the weather .
Our Alysha (miss 5) learn a valuable lesson this week - when coming out the bath, it’s not a great idea to put your towel over your head and spin around in circles, you might just fall down the stairs. - poor Alysha, she wasn’t hurt to badly, we had to try really hard not to laugh though.
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