We rented a crib (I believe that's what I'm meant to call the holiday cottage here) in Peel Forest, near Geraldine for me, Elmer and my parents. All we did for 5 days was walk in the forest, go to the park, eat nice food, play records on the old record player, read books and play scrabble. There was a tree house in the garden that Elmer climbed to fly his helicopter, and a little bridge over a stream. The television was in a cupboard and pretty much stayed there the whole time. I must say, I feel a lot more relaxed than I did before we left.

Oh and Elmer is totally in love with his grandparents.

Been meaning to blog this for a while. It's Elmer and his little girlfriend Erin. I love almost everything about this photograph..

Elmer with his two favourite Christmas presents. The car is from us, and the train set is from my parents. He adores the train, and sat playing with it for two hours on Christmas day.

Happy Christmas everyone. We bumped into Santa in the park and got a photograph with him. Elmer was going nowhere near Santa but didn't mind sitting on my knee next to him. I think he would have been a little more enthusiastic if he knew how many goodies Santa was bringing our way tonight. Can't wait!

It's after midnight and I am editing. The idea is that I get a good four hours or so in after Elmer goes to bed. Unless it is tonight and a miscommunication about dinner/napping meant that he fell asleep on the sofa too early and then didn't go to sleep until 11pm. Even with Steven in charge it means I can't get much done in our little one room pad until now. Seeing 1.00 AM on the top of my screen these days means I can squeeze a few more little items through before I'm totally zonked...

Anyway, the glass arrived yesterday for the windows in the house. That means that the flooring, the windows, the walls and the ceiling are all sat here waiting to go in. If we had another 50 Stevens around I'd say the house would be finished next week.