Well, here we are in August and at last there is the promise of Spring and warmer sunny weather! As such we have been enjoying more time outside and a selection of home grown veggies from Andrew's ever enlarging vegetable garden!
We are all fine. Olivia is greatly loving all things craft and we have been all going along to the library in Walkerville with Granny to do a story and craft session each week....she lovingly brings home all manner of clever craft things she has made, ranging from octopuses made from bubble wrap to flower gardens made from egg boxes and pipe cleaners. All of which get diligently taken to "Show and Tell" at childcare, where, I am told, she does an awful lot of "telling"......bless her......
She is loving swimming at the moment and spends the whole class underwater doing "unders" and "diving"......
Needless to say she is adorable and cute and funny and we love her.....
Charlie is booked in for his ear operation and ear investigations on Monday 27th August. The plan is for the Dr to insert a grommet into his "good" ear and investigate the left ear to see where the hearing problem stems from. Charlie, of course, is oblivious to all of this, and continues to be a happy, affectionate and chuckly little boy.
Charlie has moved up a room at childcare and after a few agonising mornings of him being "homesick" for the nursery, he has now settled into the toddler room.
Charlie recently showed HIS artistic bent by drawing all over our kitchen wall in permanent green texta. For anyone that is interested, acetone appears to be the only thing that will remove texta from walls, as we have discovered. It also strips the paint off the wall, so we now have a fairly large patch......but certainly easier on the eye than green scribble! Little monkey.
Lexie is adorable and the eczema is starting to improve on her face with massive and continual applications of lanolin. She is also sprouting new teeth practically daily, with 3 having come up in a week! To my horror, she also grinds her teeth....it drives me batty, but at least she can now start chomping on a few lamb chops!
She has become a little mobile, in as much as she is starting to bum shuffle around a little bit. She attempts to crawl, but like Olivia and Charlie before her, seems to think that the bottom shuffle is a better mode of transport. It will be interesting to see how that progresses over the next month.
She is still sleeping in the hammock, but the hammocks days are numbered I fear, so a cot is all ready and waiting for her, freshly painted, for whenever she is ready.
