Day 52 - Olivia

Olivia was a little sick last night so she and Ava got to spend a day at home with daddy. Which was lovely I am sure. The best bit, even though she was a little unwell - no accidents today. Bye bye nappies! I captured this very precious moment of Olivia buttering her blocks and eating them. The imaginary play is very cute at the moment. Mums, babies, doctors, shoppers, buttering toast, I wonder what comes next?

Day 51 - My little readers

Reading before bedtime has been a tradition in our house since the girls were very young. Each night the girls get to choose a book each that one of us will read to them. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of their favourites. Tonight it was very obvious that we read it to them regularly as they have memorised most of the book and would say it along with me. There are other books they have memorised as well so I think it is time to buy and read them some new books.

Day 50 - Lamb Eater

We have a few very special Lamb Eater's in our family. Meet our newest. Olivia took to some delicious marinated lamb cutlets tonight like a duck to water. She finished her first one and demanded a second cutlet. We then discovered her amazing capability to eat a corn on the cob in a matter of at least 60 seconds to be able to get the second cutlet she was demanding. Usually while eating the corn she'll leave a few kernels on the cob.... not tonight, it was the cleanest I have ever seen.

So she not only looks like Shane, but devours the expensive cuts of meat just like him too. I think she is taking hints from her favourite book 'Just Like My Dad' - I must have missed the page about the expensive meats!

Day 49 - Lovely Leila

Today we went and met our newest neice - Leila Freeman. What an entrance she made! Leila is just gorgeous, you could just sit and look at her all day long. Everytime the girls see this photo I took yesterday - they tell me that Leila is sleeping, can I pick her up and can we see her. Or when I told them that Monique had her baby, Leila, Olivia tells me that she has a baby in her tummy and back. I am quite happy that they don't ask me where our baby is, they are going to be very disappointed one day.

Welcome to the family gorgeous Leila, we can't wait to watch you grow up into the most beautiful princess.

Congratulations Mon and Russ, what a gorgeous girl you have created. We can't wait to have a cuddle.

Day 48 - The big girl transition continues

Today the transition from my babies continued at the hairdresser. Today they willingly sat on cushions in the big girls chair rather than on my lap. They both had a real haircut as opposed to just the regular fringe and ends trim which we usually give them as they are either too distressed at the haircut or fidget too much trying to see what Vanessa is doing.

They sat looking at themselves in the mirror and were excellent patrons while Vanessa was cutting their hair. Olivia was lucky enough to get a little product in her hair to see how her curls looked after the haircut. They lasted for the rest of the day.

Thank you Vanessa, you truely are the best!

Day 47 - We have tomatoes

A little while ago, Shane's dad dropped us some tomato plants to grow in our garden. While out in the yard tonight, we discovered a few tomatoes growing. I look forward to watching them grow and eat them. Dave and Josephine grow the most amazingly delicious tomatoes, I hope ours are just as good. We noticed some flowers on our Strawberry plant as well, so we might also get some late blooming berries.

This time next year, I hope we have a great Vegetable garden, with Sage and Oregano growing in our garden as well.

Day 46 - Organised

Today I spent some of my afternoon at work getting my filing organised. I find having an organised filing cabinet makes for an easier time at school. It usually takes me a few weeks to get into the spirit of getting my filing cabinet organised and in my new role as SLST it is taking just as long, I think that is because I have more than one filing cabinet in my office this year.