Shopping at Paddys market

It is the 21 st anniversary of the Darling Harbour.

Darling harbour.

Claude

This morning we went to Paddy's market

to have a look at gift (crap)

to bring as a little gift

to the people we are hoping to crash in....

We saw few nice things at Paddy's

then we went to Darling Harbour

Same crap 5 time dearer.

Having coffee we made a list of people

and of what we like to give them.

Then went shopping.

Costly crap I hope they like it/them

Amelia is spending time with grand dad

Friday afternoon.

the sun is in her eyes.

Shane favorite outfit. Jo said that he put her

in it every time he had a chance.

she is crawling and showing her teeth.

she has 2 at the top also.

Suddenly she was very cranky.
Claude was worried .
he thought she was sick as she is never like that on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
But I thought maybe she was starving.
it was 5 pm.
So I put her in the high chair and gave
her the crust of the bread
while I made her dinner.

After her diner I put her in the bouncinette
while I made our dinner.
She loved it until we started eating.
so I put her back in the high chair
and she had the second course.
( or was it the 5 th?)

Saturday morning.
She was very funny, she kept on touching Claude.
I gave her her bottle in bed
before her breakfast.
Usually we do it the other way around
But I wanted a lie in......

Testing the new toy.
I try to stand her behind it but
she was not interested.

She like all the gadgets.

On Thursday I bought this T shirt at big W.

For father's day they had all those shirts.

I wanted a blue one but they only had pink.

I think she would look lovely in blue with

her big blue eye.

After lunch we went to Manly.

Grand dad took over the pram again!

Amelia kept on waving to every body.

And they all smile back at her.

Claude ask her if she was the queen.

We stop and watch the big waves

crashing and wetting everybody.

Grand dad had a lovely time with Amelia.

On Wednesday he only see her at odd time and for a

short time as he is working and she is sleeping.....

Shelly beach.

She loves the sand.

She is not eating it. Only the first time I took her.

new mobile phone

Friday, I just bought a new mobile to be able to use it in France.

yes, we are going there in 6 days.

My phone has a camera, so Claude took

this picture of Amelia, not a very good one.

She is wearing pink stockings and a lovely dress

and shoes. but we can't see it.

She is adorable a very good model.

this was Friday afternoon.

Jo and Shane are having grown up time.

Staying at an motel and going to the

restaurant for a degustation dinner.

5 courses with 5 different wine.

This for Jo's birthday.

She is CRAWLING

This is what concentrating to reach a prize look like.

Amelia has slow down with her eating.

This morning she did not finished her Weet Bix.

She is watching the birds eat it.

We are going for a walk.

she is waiting for me to put my shoes on.

Today she has been crawling.

I have been encouraging her (or teasing her)

by putting toys just out of reach.

first barrel and cups.

All the time playing music on the caterpillar.

When you touch a leg of the caterpillar
it plays music or the alphabet.
I kept on doing it.

now her turn at it.

Bur she also like playing with the wheels.

very interesting

But best of all it's the tissues.

She just loves tearing them apart.

2 tissues make a lovely mess.

she can wave with it too.

That was the best prize for crawling.

I am very happy that she finally crawls.

Next blog I might not be when I have to run after her

all day long.

Jo birthday

OOPS!!!!!

this should be the last photo of the blog.

I forgot my camera (yeh again)

Shane took those photos with his mobile

and send them to my e mail.

But I did not know how to put them on my blog.

SSssooo I e mail Tharyn for help.

Thanks Tharyn.

I show her reply to Claude and he help me to get started.

But I forgot that you have to blog

the last photo first.

Yesterday was Jo's birthday.

We all met half way at an Indian restaurant.

The food was good but a bit pricey.

So here we have toothless Mykaela

eating coconut ice cream.

Amelia eating some of her mum ice cream

and then some of her sister.

Amelia was very good.
Now it is past her bed time.

Mykaela's tooth.

When they went camping few months ago

we went to have lunch with them.

Mykaela lost a tooth after lunch

today it is after diner.

If we eat with them more often she will be toothless.

She pull and pull

twist and twist

until it fell.

Yummy food.

Amelia is having nan bread.

The birthday girl.

Amelia is eating some of Jo dish.

some fried tiny fish

she loved it.

that child try everything.

We took Amelia home with us as it was

a Tuesday. In the restaurant Amelia was

asleep in my arms. I transferred her to

Shane's, he put her in our car in the car seat.

When we got home I carried her to bed and

put her fully clothes ( she was all dressed up)

to bed. She never woke up.

She only woke up at 11.36 pm

I took off her dress, but she only wanted to sleep

so I left her legging and body suit on.

The only problem was that she had the same nappy on.

It did not seem to worry her as she

slept all through the night until 7.30 this morning.

Canoeing on Narrabeen lake

A beautiful, warm day.

We decided to go canoeing.

We saw a LOT of bird life.

here a cormorant resting on a buoy.

We went under the bridge to the other side.

It was a the first time for us to canoe this way.

Under the bridge we were among swallows.

they have their nests there.

Beautiful reds.

Lots of egret but this one was VERY tall.

Claude wanted to go up a river...

So he was explaining to me where to go:

It's where we go bicycling, pass that rock,

with the plaque ( I saw the rock)
there in the trees!

yeah! look at my view, which trees?

We stop at an island for lunch.

After 3 hours of canoeing Claude was quite wet.

So we dry up in the sun for a while.

Then we went to Curl Curl

to do the boards walk.

A very lovely walk.

We stop and watch 2 whales.

They were at least 2km away so we saw

mainly the blow jets and sometime some black.

We had a quiet week end.

Friday Claude done the tax and I spent

the day cleaning the place.

I dusted all the louvre doors.

A very big job.

All day.

Saturday morning I went to aqua.

We had Sol for instructor.

"Ladies we are E X E R C I S I N G

not talking, if you can talk you can work harder"

In the afternoon I was very tired and

decided to polish, revamp

my handbag.

I ask some friend what to do with it

they told me to get a new one.

Not very helpful.

So Claude went for a walk by himself around

Long Reef golf course.

He saw a lawn wedding at the golf club.

It reminded him of Shane and Jo's one.
And at the top of the cliff he saw

some para gliders.

Then I wished I had been there too.

Amelia visit DeeWhy beach

Still in her PJ.

Amelia slept through the night. only woke at 6am

and went back to sleep till 8am

In her bag of toys she found a cup and a spoom and

was holding them like she was going to feed herself.

very clever and so accurate.

Eating Vegemite toast on the deck

DY beach, it was windy and cold on the promenade.

Those are showers and taps. pretty Jazzy hein?

A nice woman ask me if I wanted a photo of us two toguether.

Thanks stranger.

Amelia love the sand.

I clean up all around her but

she still found rubbish.

She is very interested with people around her.

She managed to dig a trench all around herself.

After the beach we went to Michaela Howie playground.

We try standing....

She preferd to play with te balls sitting.

Amelia was 10 months on Sunday.

And she got her 3rd tooth.

Still not crawling...

Today I try to encourage her by putting her toys just out of reach.

I am very happy I took all those photos today

as I did not take any on the week end.

Friday we visited our financial advisor.

He gave each of us a bottle of wine .

usually he gave us only one and

last time I complained that we were 2 clients.

after all he carged us both!!

After that we drove to Palm beach and had lunch at the golf club

It was lovely sitting on the veranda in the sun.

Sunday Claude did some gardening and mulching in the morning.

Then we had a BBQ.

some nice organic beef sausages and a salad.

In the afternoon we went bicycling around

Narrabeen lagoon to the beach