Kate and Andrew Scott

Bigger Will Be Better!

Us outside our new place!!!

Originally uploaded by Kate Scott

We thought we were going to have a pretty quiet June, we were wrong….

The big news is that we bought a new home. It was a bit of a shock. We’d spent the last few months meeting with architects and thinking about how we’d like to extend our current house, and then we realised that our current budget was not going to be able to stretch far enough to build what we wanted: a house that would last us for the next ten years or so. After grieving for a few days that we weren’t going to be able to afford to build our beautiful dream home (OK and being a little be glad that we weren’t going to have to live through a renovation) Kate did a quick web search to see what was around in the areas we like, in our budget, and found what turned out to be our new home. It looked interesting, if ugly, had a great floor plan, and great location, so she went to see it. She thought it had potential, Andrew went to see it, then Kate’s parents and then all of a sudden, only two weeks and a dutch auction later, we are the proud owners of a new abode.

It needs some work before we move in, which will consume Kate’s spare time in the coming months, but it’ll be great. Twice as big as our current house with lots of storage, off-street parking and a big lounge room. Great for our growing girl! All very exciting stuff. Stay tuned for the tales of tradies and removalists – hopefully we’ll move-in in early October, just in time for a late birthday party for Harriet.

Apart from buying a new house we’ve had a lovely month. We hosted Kate’s Mum’s birthday party, checked out Kate’s parents’ new home (new homes are in the Parsons’ blood at the moment), had Andrew’s Dad come and visit, and Kate resigned from her job to stay at home with Harriet for the next little while. Kate also finished knitting her first garment, a jumper for Harriet, which was a very proud moment. Thank goodness for YouTube’s knitting videos (which Kate highly recommends) and Kate’s Mum and Nana who identified a few early errors, including a mis-count of the stitches which had resulted in the back of the jumper being twice as long as required (the jumper was knitted in once piece and it looked very, very odd!). Next project is a ‘sampler’ scarf for Andrew to test out new types of stitches, and which he may or may not wear…. :)

Our little girl is growing apace, it really is amazing to see how quickly she’s changing and developing. This month she’s mastered waving goodbye, and a regal wave it is too, and is getting closer and closer to being mobile, finding it more and more frustrating that she’s yet to master moving forward. She’s settled into two sleeps a day, which is fantastic, and has starting sleeping through at night, which is just amazingly wonderful!!!!! She’s 9 months old now, which is pretty shocking to her newbie parents. We think it’s fair to say that she really enjoyed Lindsay’s visit and the day when we had Kate’s parents and him over for lunch was a highlight for her, three grandparents! She didn’t know what to do with herself, just sat back and basked in all the attention.