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Anzac Day

Hi to all

Cheeky monkey

lily went to her first anzac day parade today.

i forgot to take the camera!!!

oh well. she was gobsmacked by it all. loved the brass bands, the marching bands, the jeeps with the diggers, the dogs, all the navy airforce army, the cadets, the flags, the bagpipe bands...

was bloody freezing and she was rugged up in a singlet skivvy jumper puffer vest beanie.

so we snuggled in close and clapped and waved to everyone who walked past.

other than that, all the plans for the house and septic are IN COUNCIL.

YAY

so they should take 20 working days and then it's all on.

finance was approved (thanks chris xxx)

so we are on a moving train. toot toot.

look at all those teeth!

lily loves playgroup and it's so cute to watch all the little darlings suss each other out and choose who they will or will not share the toys with.

i think i love it more than lily as the mothers are wonderful and we have have a huge yak-a-thon for two hours. great to meet some other people up here.

AND, how's this, 3 of the other little girls are booked into the catholic primary school out at highfields that lily is booked into and they are all starting in 2012. (it is a very small school so WOW)

the tank is fitted to the shed and so is the pump all looks good and it's been raining up here so it will be slowly filling up in order for us to start a veggie garden in the next couple of months.

Me and my dad fixing stuff

lily's first texta drawing

lily is sooo almost walking. she is standing up by herself from sitting and wants to walk with her cart a million times a day, up and down the hallway, out on the grass, wherever. and she is holding onto things less and less to move around.

no rush, but she is so cute trotting around the place!

must go as i am starving and bernie and lily are asleep so will make the most of the quiet.

love us xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

another week

it seems like time has sped up. all of a sudden the day has gone, the sun setting, and time to put lily in the bath.

crazy.

Picking herbs and smelling them

hi to everyone. we are having fun here, choosing all the colours tiles carpet doors cornice handles kitchen etc for the house. lily has been wonderful and having a fat old time helping with all the colour samples.

we played with connor (her little friend who was born one day before lily; i went to prenatal yoga with bec, his mum) on monday, tuesday we chose colours with the designer, wednesday we made daddy a cake, thursaday we went to playgroup and friday we are going to cruise a bit, maybe go to the park.

she loved playgroup this week, we haven't been for 5 weeks or so as we went away and then it was school holidays. lily did her first ever painting yesterday which was fun and she painted with a brush, stamped with a cork dipped in paint and had fun experimenting with her fingers (on both hers and connor's paintings)

lovely  first ever painting

washing the car; daddy's little helper

the playgroup is small, only 6 children who are all around the same age except one seven month old and the mothers are all lovely. it is great as we didn't have a mother's group so now we all chat away for hours and the kids play and have a ball.

poor bern has been ridiculously busy and yesterday it was 'happy birthday gotta run' so we will go to the park on the weekend and have a picnic or something nice.

today the tank gets delivered for the shed, finally. very cool.

lily's favourite things at the moment are still reading, playing the piano, trying to walk, dolly (which we have to take everywhere) ...infact yesterday at playgroup she rounded up every dolly in the place and put them allinto the wooden doll's bed and the climbed in herself and was quite happily chatting away to them all and checking that they all had bellies, feet, hands, eyes, nose and ears like she does. hilarious.

lily's funny frown face

lily has been really weird in her sleeping, last night she FINALLY got to sleep at 8pm as i am trying to let her self settle in her bed now she is a big girl. for her night sleep anyway. the day one i still cuddle her it's quicker and easier.

but now she is still asleep at 7.30am! and this is a child who always has woken at 5.15am or so...

but wait she is stirring!

must have heard me.

well better run and download these photos before missy moo needs me,

in her kenny kenworth truck overalls her daddy bought her (thinking she's gorgeous and the same as daddy)

eat chocolate

love us xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

waking up from a nap (check the hair)

hi again

hi been another busy week, we are picking colours for the house and hopefully the plans will go to council.

these are the bathroom colours; the floor tile (white will be on the walls) and the left is the cabinets and if i am allowed the top will be this colour too but otherwise the top will be the one next to it. the one on the right was one i liked but have decided against for the vanity tops.

Yay!! they buggered up one thing which they are rectifying and then we'll go from there. they changed the ensuite vanity from a double to a single without consulting us due to what they considered lack of space (why they hadn't figured this out previously who would know!!?) but we move dthe ensuit figuration around and now it fits, so they are changing that on the plan and then off we go. We signed off on it all and that will be a variation.

Bern has been away at Lismore working and we have employed another guy, Brent, we have known brent for  years and Bern used to work with him at Advanced Trucks so we are happy.

Reading yesterday...we had a day inside due to rainy weather

So other than paperwork and work and teething not much has happened.

in the last post there are some photos of the plans if you are interested, i put them on for mum and dad to help us with a decision about the alfresco area, but all is staying as is on the plan.

Lily has grown another 1.5cm this last 6 weeks and she has only put on 250g. I really don't know how though as all she seems to do is eat. I have added another snack to try and beef her up but i think, due to her height, she will be a stringbean like her daddy. (thankgod)

she now weighs 11.5kg

Have fun and be veeeery naughty

Love us xxxxxxxxxxxxx

for mum and dad

hi this is for mum and dad to look at to help us make a final decision on our house plans...

too cute

hi

i know i posted yesterday, but just had to add these photos with lily being too cute for words.

i am biased...

Also on a sad note, which makes me think about every single minute to cherish with bern and lily. A blog i visit by a lovely lady named Jackie. here

have fun and will chat soon

Carla xxx

Love to munch on earwigs!

we're back!

hi to all.

we are home again after our whirlwind tour of the north.

was great to catch up with sonje scott shae ray roland anne fina sam duro charleen ashlee reece and strougz.

i think that was all

fun anyway

i have included some photos of our beach loving babe. we had to shower her after being at the beach as the bath would have had more sand than water in it...

but she had a ball

 

since being home i have done about 890 loads of washing and lots of paperwork, all with my little helper right by my side. she is loving life and has two new molars, poor darling it's been a rough couple of weeks.

BUT

she slept through last night for the second time in 14 months.

so i am recharged, for a few more hours anyway. (but that could be the three choccy easter eggs i just ate)

helping mummy do the veggies is an every day occurance, she tries all of them.

we have another new employee starting monday, so that's very cool and hopefully we'll be able to see more of bern now and have less of lily screaming at the top of her lungs and banging on the screen door whenever daddy goes to work.

on sunday auntie bev uncle ivan jenny and adam drove up from the gold coast and it was sooo much fun to catch up. lily loved it, another party, and played hard so she was shattered when they left.

Lily and Reece, they loved each other; cuddles playing with each others hair and all! Very cute.

me and my dad...

She has put her order in for a go kart as she loved scotty's one and didn't want to ever get out of it. daddy cannot wait until her feet can reach the pedals, although he also is considering just letting her steer and him helping her to drive.

lily is walking around hanging on to anything. she struts around the coffee table doing laps. she climbs on whatever and can now climb UP stairs and go back DOWN them. with mummy there just in case of course!

will attach some photos of our trip and go now as i should be doing tax but am procrastinating and this is MUCH more fun.

Love us xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

PS: forgot to add the choccy ones, her first taste of chocolate. she was ok with it but not fussed. ??!!