188 + 84 Weeks

For this week's post I am inundating you with photos, as there were too many cute ones.  We had a good week, with a trip to the park at Burrill, a trip to Dolphin Point, hair cuts for me and Arley by our new hair dresser Jeffery, and a trip to Narrawallee Inlet for me and Arley.  Carmie is loving school still, and even asked if she could go there on Saturday.  She is apparently friends with all of the kids and is very social, which goes to show how comfortable she is there.  Now that she is going three days a week, we have a special day with just Arley every Wednesday.  It is nice to have the one on one time with him, as Carmie can be very demanding sometimes!  This week was really hot, so I took him down to the Inlet.  He had a lovely little paddle, and then took off on a very long walk to the end of the point, and couldn't have cared less if I was following him or not.  Luckily I was, as we sat on a bench and had a really lovely morning tea.  Apparently Arley likes a 180 degree ocean view for his morning snacks.  He has had a good week, with his new favourite word being "up".  He will come up to me while I'm in the kitchen and physically turn me around (that kid is strong!) and demand "Up, up up!"  He also knows all of his ABC's, although he can't say 'w', and knows his 1 to 10's.  He still won't talk if you ask him to, for instance, he will point to his giraffe toy and say, "araffe" but then you point to his bear and ask him to say bear, which is a much easier word, and he refuses.  Stubborn.

Carmie is well.  She has grown 1.5cm in the last month, and is looking rather tall these days.  She is generally very sweet, unless she is really tired.  She is mad about Jake and the Netherland Pirates, and Mr Men books (which, by the way, are not nearly as cool as I thought they were!!).  She says the funniest things.  When she's hungry, she tells me that her heart is hungry.  Last night after lights out, she told me that she had a tummy ache.  When I questioned her further, she told me that it was because she didn't eat enough food, and that her "heart was sloshing around in all the water, and it can't swim".  She insists on having water by her bedside (like mother, like daughter), and I think she had drunk too much.  I have to start recording the things she says.  Such a goofball.

At Burrill Lake

 Playing in the backyard

 At Dolphin Point

 Family photo :)

 Mummy & Arley day at the Inlet

 See yous latah (towny talk!)