I didn’t mention our weekend in my last post. We had a good one. We have started working on our garden. I provide the vision and John provides the labour while I watch the girls. Since it’s too late to plant we decided to start with landscaping. We (John) built a retaining wall which is quite nice but it sure was a lot of work putting it together and then stealing dirt to fill it up. Yes, we stole dirt from the top soil pile down the street. There has to be some perks to living in dirt city. Next year we hope to build a path that will come up to the front door and then around the wall to our side yard. All part of my vision.

The girls are doing really well. They are really starting to point at everything and try and express themselves. The current Baby Einstein (Baby Shakespeare) has a part on cat. Everytime Emma sees it she points and yells cat. If Leah isn’t paying attention she’ll yell it over and over again until Leah points at the screen and yells cat. They get pretty excited.

Yesterday I watched Sarah and Brennan for a couple of hours while Jess was at the passport office. Brennan is growing fast and he is a good little boy. Sarah had fun playing with the girls and I am pleased to report that there was no crying or whining and they all shared their toys. The girls really like Sarah and they follow her around. Neither one of them cared when I fed and held Brennan - I’m not kidding when I say they aren’t mom clingy. They did get pretty excited when they saw his bottle…

Last night I was upstairs when John yelled for me to come quickly. This usually means the girls are doing something cute. Halfway down the stairs he informs me that I might be mad - my immediate response is “are they eating french fries??”. I then hear the water splashing. There are no bathtubs downstairs and I thought it highly unlikely that they had got to the kitchen sink. You might have guessed that they were in the (thankfully freshly cleaned) toilet. So gross. They hadn’t seen John yet so they squealed with laughter when I rounded the corner. Little monkeys.


Our new wall

Emma has discovered that grass isn’t so scary

Leah won’t look at the camera! You can see her clown hair in this picture.

Leah sneaking a look at the computer - I’m not sure what was so exciting

Reading. That’s Emma’s beloved chickie in her hand.

“Oh hi..it was her idea…”