Fun Long Weekend

A fair! that we came across after a BBQ chick picnic lunch. Eva very excited to see her friends Ella and Abbi, horse riding, giant trampoline, and uncle Joel took her on the dodgems! The cheapest ride was the giant slide but Eva was not keen on this, and I feel she will be talking about that trampoline for weeks to come.
Pip enjoyed the small animals, and sat by the ducklings for ages, she had a good attempt at saying 'duck'. While on words she will pick up anything resembling a phone hold it to her ear and say 'herro'. She has also started the stair stage, and we spend plenty of time crawling the stairs. She is so impressed with herself. Eva is well into the 'look at me' stage where she will hold a pose, hop on one leg and the audience will respond with the ooo, ahhh tricky!! Steve has taught her to stand on one leg, lean on the wall, and put one finger in her ear mmmm, nice one daddy.

Eva fashionista

Eva is soooo independent at the moment, and loves dressing herself, sometimes 3/4 times a day! So armed with my new camera I will attempt to record them in all their glory.
Its all about stockings at the beach. The first really warm day of the Summer, so we had a wee picnic on the beach.

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.