my journal

well, i am going to attempt this bloggy thing again. Eva is obsessed with Mary Poppins and everything is 'super-kala-fragalistic-..' and as the song goes, everything is 'atrocious'. Pip is saying 'Muma!' and 'Eda' and crawling too fast. She climbed the stairs at Birubi today, with my supervision, and she is pulling her self up on all things and very curious about all things, esp what Eva is upto.

Well its been a while and prob the very small audience has dropped off... mmm lets see if e can get this happening again! Has been a busy summer, we wen over to Innsbruck for most of Jan, and then steve started his new job and w moved to Syd in Feb. We are back by the beach thabk goodness, and getting used to living in the big smoke.

Holidays in the air

Painting is fun, as long as you have a clean up plan! lifting the technicolour baby into bath usually works ok, as long as you have 1. old clothes on 2. old towels ready 3. no contact on walls/floors between the courtyard and bathroom mmmm, I tried putting her under the garden tap, even on a hot day this is not so enjoyable. Despite all this, it is great fun!! and i cant see if i ever will be able to throw these art works away.

swimming!

To continue on with the little ones attraction to water we have set up a 'plastic tub' in the backyard as a place for Eva to cool down, but she seems to spend hours out there playing in the water. At the end of the day as it cools down, we often walk down to the beach and see the 'dirbs and dogs' 'birds and dogs', and steve will go for a surf. Some days we just stay in the aircon, which is a sure sign of a hot hot summer on the way. Its only October...

things are warming up

We have settled into a nice routine up here at the bay. Mondays are swimming lessons and a visit to my grandmother, which usually involves tea, biscuits and helping her with her crosswords. She pays little attention to me and is fascinated by Eva's new tricks. This week it was clapping. The cuteness is in the inappropriateness of it all. First thing in the morning she likes to sit up in bed and start clapping. Round of applause for waking up! She also loves to dance, and watching her sway and hum to beastie boys is great fun. I have put up a photo of Eva after her swimming lesson, in her beautiful dressing gown. She looks quite the lady. Also we have started taking trips to the beach as the weather warms up.

9 months in, 9 months out

Back from holidays, and moved from Sydney back to the coast. Days are spent whale watching and joining Steve on his many fishing expeditions. Life is good. Eva and I have joined up for play group and swimming lessons (for Eva..) mainly so the little one has someone else to look at during the day.
I have posted some photos from a recent day at dad's where we planted a beautiful magnolia in memory of my beloved mother. There is something very special in people gardening together, enjoying the earth and sun. Eva loved crawling around the grass and through the garden.

Koh Tao- Thailand

Here we are in beautiful Thailand. took us a few days to find our groove, i.e comfy accom, early nights, eating around baby sleep times... but now we have truley relaxed into the island mode.

We are staying at a swanky eco resort- Charm Churee, Eva has made loads of friends, and the 10min walk into town can take a while due to the ladies from each restaurant coming out to say hello- sawadee! Eva turns to the calling of "Ewaa" as the thais love to call her. The small bay has beautiful clear water and heaps of fish, Eva loves watching them swim around.