Henry Thoms

We praise God for the safe and healthy birth of

Henry Lamberton Thoms

on 6th July 2009 at 4 pm

weighing 4.2 kg (9 lbs 4oz) and measuring 53 cm (21 inches)

Fiona and Henry are both doing well and are now at home.

Independence Day Weekend

Did you have a good fourth? That's the question everyone asks around here and yes we did have a good fourth even if Baby Thoms didn't make an appearance. Our good friends Alexis & Tim invited us to a cookout on Saturday. Lucy spent about 2 hours in the pool swimming by herself(!) with the appropriate swimming vest on. We ate cheeseburgers and hot dogs and tried to stay cool. Then we headed downtown to enjoy the fireworks from the riverfront boardwalk in front of the Tea Room. We had an awesome time and Lucy couldn't stop saying 'whoa' at all the different fireworks which lasted for 20 minutes. We ate chocolate desserts, the kids waved red white and blue glow sticks and the adults chatted. It was such a fun time! The rest of the weekend was spent watching Wimbledon, working on the pizza oven and just waiting...

Blog Break

It's half way through the year, the end of the financial year for some. I'm taking a blogging break - incidentally this is the 456th post for American Correspondent. Over the past few weeks I've been spending time catching up on scrapbooking, sneaking in a few novels and cooking up meals for the freezer.

I'll be back with some exciting news, hopefully very very soon!

Weekend commitments

We started avoiding commitments from last Thursday so we only tentatively said yes to two events this weekend.

Saturday night we went to a cookout at the Gutches. Lucy had fun swimming, eating mac and cheese and getting bitten by mozzies whilst we caught up with some old friends. Then there was a huge thunderstorm at 7pm to break up the party. [It feels weird to be saying 'old' friends but given how life has panned out it is an accurate statement]

Sunday morning at church was the conclusion of the week long adventure of Vacation Bible School. Due to shyness Lucy refused to participate in this closing event (the skits freaked her out) but she enjoyed her week so much that she wants VBS to happen every week.

Sunday afternoon we went to Seth's 3rd birthday party, themed around Spiderman. Lucy freaked out when Spiderman actually turned up but she enjoyed the spiderman cake and goodies. I nearly melted in the heat but have survived to write this post after much ice and fanning! Lucy was very much into the water pistols and Thomas the tank engine playset.

Andrew, with a little help from Lucy did a small amount of tiling on the pizza oven. Note the merchandising on them both!

Look at the butterfly that I made!

Vacation Bible School

Lucy has been at Vacation Bible School (VBS) every day this week at a program called 'Crocodile Dock'. She has been having the best time! She's there from 9am-12pm, singing songs (well she listens anyway), making a craft, hearing a bible story and playing games. Of course she still hates being dropped off! But when I told her today was the last day she was extremely disappointed and asked for more. She'll have to wait until next year!

Pizza Oven garden

A couple of months ago we had 4 cubic yards of topsoil dumped on our lawn near the pizza oven. Part of it was to even out the slope near the concrete floor and part was used to create a new garden bed now affectionately known as the 'pizza oven garden'. At the time I planted a whole lot of bulbs along the border but thaey didn't show much action for a while and a few were trodden on by visiting toddlers. But I'm happy to say that they are now bursting into flower and making a brilliant addition to our entertaining area. We are still yet to put down weed mat and mulch but that will come in time!