Clever girl

I was just looking at Amelia playing and

I was wondering "what is going on in her

little brain". It was marvelous to see and

it went on for a long time too. There is

magnet under each shape. so 2 shape stick

but not the 3 one.

I think she is very clever too.

(yes grand ma and grand pa think so )

Last baby sitting for June

Wednesday 23 June

Amelia and her family are going

on a holiday to France

so today is my last baby sitting

for a long while.

she loves her books
very Chickie

back to her books.

She has 2 favourite ones.

wrapping up baby

checking the nappy

(it's an hanky stuck with masking tape)

the masking tape bother her, after a while

she took it off and stuck it to her Tshirt.

feeding baby

going for a walk

OH oh, dropped the bottle.

We had a lovely day even with the rain.

we did go out a short bit but forgot

the camera and the phone.

We saw a rainbow, I try to show it

to Amelia but I don't think she saw it.

When we got home I took my camera

to try to get a picture but it was fading

and the picture was not good.

I wanted to show the picture to Amelia on the PC

walk to the Basin

Sunday 20 June

We went for a bush walk and

a pic nic in Ku-Ring- Gai-Chase

The first and only Boronia we saw
It is out of season.
The nice sun must have confused it.

view of Palm beach.

After all the rain the water

was flowing.

we saw a lot of wallabies.

we wanted to pic nic on the grass but

EVERYWHERE was wallabies droppings

so we had to use one of the table/bench.

going back.

Palm beach, the light house.

Cabbage tree palm reserve

Friday 18 June

A beautiful winter day.

We went for a walk in Manly to

Shelly beach or its proper name

Cabbage tree reserve.

We do not know when they changed

the name to this but we had always

called it Shelly beach.

you use to be able to pickup

beautiful shell on the tide mark

but now being a reserve

we are not allowed.

" Oceanide"

on the side of Manly rock pool

All along the path there is there is

statuettes embedded in the rocks.

But few months ago someone has stolen

the little penguin and the bandicoot.

blue ring octopus

underneath the writing there is a strip

with the braille code.

We had our pic nic at the beach in the nice sun.

A good day out and now it is time to get ready to

go to the Sydney Opera house for

a concert "Music on the Brink"

Picking up Mykaela

Wednesday 3 pm

We went to pick up Lala at her school.

They had just put some wood chips

on the garden bed, just for Amelia

to play in....

Oh we spotted Lala.

Amelia ran as fast s her little legs

allowed her. I was afraid that she fall

and get another bump on her head.

Afternoon tea.

Mykaela choice: nutella.

She told me that sometime her mother

put sprinkles on it too, but we could not

find any and I did not want Mykaela

to mess up Jo nice and tidy pantry

shelves. so no sprinkles

I went to pick Mykaela up so that Jo

could take both girls straight after work

to have their second swine flue

injections

Fresh air

Wednesday

A beautiful winter day 19 degrees.

We escaped the hot house.

Claude has the heater since 6.30 am.

And Amelia had her on all night.

So the house is too hot for

my liking.

She saw some 3 years old standing on the rope
when they left she went and try,
always observing.

she found a new way to get on.

again, the older children were

on this so she a go too.

Amelia is wearing Shane jumper.

Claude mother knitted it.

it has a kangaroo pocket.

Beads maize

Tuesday 15 June

She just had her bath and now is having

her bottle. But she hardly drank any.

Wednesday 16 June

Amelia is 20 months today.

Happy birthday darling.

At Ikea I bought a beads maize.

I am trying to put it together.

Amelia is threading 7 beads on

each metal rods

she is making finger puppets with the beads

an engineer in the making

the maize is finished.

Amelia has taken a liking with the Allen key

and is tightening the screws.

She did not play at all with the maize,

even after I hide the Allen key.

And Claude could not help himself to say:

"I told you so"

He think that she is too old but I don't think so.

At my kindy we had 3 maizes and the children

there were from 3 years old to 7 years old.

We are going to do counting, color,

hand and eyes co ordination ect.

First season fire

Monday 14 June

Tonight we did our first winter fire.

The next morning the house was still

very warm.

Two weeks ago after all that rain,

a dead tree at the bottom of the

garden fall over.

I am nagging Claude to cut it for fire wood.

But he says that he does not have the saw to

do it.

Queen Birthday 2010

We went for a bush walk to Reef beach.

It used to be a nudist beach but not anymore,

the people living near by wanted it as a

family beach saying that weird people

were lurking in the bushes.

We took a pic nic in Claude new bag.

Shane and Jo birthday present yesterday.

So we try it out and it was just great.

It fit 2 bottles of water

2 sandwiches

and 2 fruits.

We spent a couple of hours just enjoying

the view. I even removed my jumper.

A group of people told us that there was a seal

around the rocks corner but we

did not see it.

One is around Manly, it must be that one.

ABC

Twice a year the ABC studio in Sydney

is giving free concert.

This month we are celebrating the 200 years

of Robert Shumann and

Frederic Chopin.

We went last Sunday to hear and see

stephanie Mccallaum play the piano.

This week was Elizabeth Neville

and Daniel Herscovitch.

I must have been tired I snooze.........

Before the concert I went to Paddy market

to get some stuff for my card making, quilling

Bath time

Amelia has a bubble machine in her bathroom.

I waited until she said "bubbles"

to activate it.

She love bursting the bubbles with her finger.

It look very pretty ( I want one too)

Amelia new travelling cot

Saturday 12 June

Shane and Jo asked us to stay for diner

We celebrated Claude birthday(30 June).

Jo showed us the traveling cot they got for Amelia
The whole family:
Jo, Shane, Mykaela and Amelia,
are going to France on the 25 for a month.

Oh Shane try it too.

pillow in.

they are making Amelia use to it.

she is putting the sheet in.

It is like a little tent so this way no mozzie

and they will know were she is during the night.

It will be good with all the traveling, the

same spot at night