194 +90 Weeks

It's been a really good week, no major dramas, no illnesses, sweet kids, happy parents.  Arley is going through his most needy phase yet, and follows me everywhere.  If I walk out of the room for 10 seconds, he loses the plot and runs after me.  It is nice to be loved, but it can get quite oppressive!  He is not eating like he used to either - he barely touches his dinner these days, and he is really slimming down a lot.  Jeffrey and I took him for a walk on the beach while Carmie was at school on Wednesday, and at first he fussed about the sand, but by the end he was squatting in a stream of water, throwing sand around.  The weather was perfect, and it was a real pity that we didn't have the camera with us.  Carmie is still loving school so much that today at dinner she asked us if she could go five days a week.  All in good time!  She has been an angel lately.  She is very into playing "teacher and student" and she walks around the house with her backpack on, full of toys, and pretends that she is going to school, demanding for me to give her work to do.  Easily done!  I am really enjoying this age that she is at.  Knock on wood!