Blogg-ed Issue

My goodness. It has been a very long time between posts. I am a bit cross at myself, because there are so many precious little things that the kids have said or done that I’ve missed the opportunity to record and have since forgotten.

Excuse time? Well, apart from the fact that there has been at least one person in the house sick over the last ten weeks, I’m also gestating again. And it really knocked me about this time - the first trimester that is. I’m starting to kick butt again now.

Introducing Lumpy. EDD mid January 2009

And for good measure here’s a newer picture of Elisha and Cayley.

Now anyone that has been checking in religiously, or has this site as their homepage will have something new to look at. Yay me.

What is it about

sand

and water

that can keep the kids occupied for hours on end?

Photos from 18th Feb 2008

We have a couple at church who are looking after a guide dog in training. His name is Turbo and he is gorgeous.

Cayley got to have a bit of a meeting with him at a barbecue we had in February.

She thought he was great.

Looks like it was mutual.

Elisha and M. have a pretty good friendship for their age. They don’t see each other very often because of distance.

Last time they saw each other would have been two years ago, yet they hit it off right away, and I’m pretty sure they even remembered each other.

Yesterday we took a trip to the zoo.

No photos yet, haven’t had time to play with them. But had to capture this memory before it drifted away.

We bought some afternoon tea, spread our rug on the grass and enjoyed the weather and each other’s company.

Elisha, Cayley and I had icy poles. Brett had hot chips.

Cayley decided she’d have a few hot chips (”Pipi” as in chippy) too. Okay, maybe more than a few. She was going for it, while the going was good. Eventually Brett’s goodwill ran out. He handed her three more chips and told her that was it.

She seemed fairly okay with that. Which was nice, because for those of you who know our daughter she can howl like a banshee when she thinks it is in her favour.

Suddenly she was very excited about something in the middle of the park. “Oooh, oooh!!!!” she squealed in a most delighted and enthusiastic tone of voice.

We all simultaneously turned to look, and share her enjoyment.

And then…

When we turned back, she was eating pipis again.

… to Butler. On the 13th of Feb we took a trip all the way out to Butler to visit some friends of ours. It was hot and at some stage the sprinklers came on. The kids had a ball in the water.

Candice provided a beautiful meal and the company was excellent. Thanks!

I have A LOT of catching up to do. I’m going to make a concentrated effort to post every day, and hopefully that will mean I’ll slowly catch up.

Way back in February we had lunch with a family from church. Got some good photos…

Cayley meets chocolate bikkie
or
How did you grow that foot there!

Monkeys ARE cheeky and the DO like bananas!

Honey