Saturday 12 January 2008

Summer Fun

Here are the gorgeous girlies :)

Hannah and Abby love to share bath time, although they're quickly outgrowing this tub! They both enjoy showers now though, so it's no big deal, somehow the 3 of them fit in there and shower together!

Abby can also climb in and out of the tub and shower by herself, which is a little hair raising when it's so wet and slippery. Occasionally she gets dunked for a second but no harm done and there's always someone close by to grab her. Bother, I accidentally deleted the photo :(

We have been to the pool twice and are going again today as soon as we've had morning tea, so I'd better get on with it! They both absolutely LOVE the water and Hannah is growing in confidence each time.

Abby absolutely loves being outside, and she can open the front door and screen to get out onto the verandah now. She can't get back in the screen door, so that's a bit frustrating for her, but she'll work it out pretty soon. The verandah is all fully fenced now and she's not showing any tendency to climb yet, she toddles around pushing toys or looking at the animals and feeling the wind on her face :)

Our little pool is also out there some of the time, Daddy carefully leaves the hoses in the sun so by afternoon, the water is quite hot, and they can have a play in comfortable temperature water.

We do have a latch on the screen door, so if the water hasn't been emptied out of the pool, I can lock her inside, thank goodness! She loves her little watering can which you can see in the picture, and Hannah's old purple mower is also a hit!


Hannah is developing a real sense of humour and loves to make faces for the camera ;) She's holding a plastic fish in case you were wondering LOL! We bought her several sets of food and kitchen stuff from Target last year, so we have everything from sausages to salmon to spatulas lurking around the house!

We measured Hannah the other day, she's over 110cm tall now, still growing about 1cm a month which she has been doing for the last year. Very, very long legs, just like Mummy :) She's looking forward to going back to the preschool program at daycare this year and catching up with her friends. She may have some new friends as she's going on a different day this year. I'm hoping to take her back to Physie, seeing as ballet didn't come off last year...waiting to hear whether they have a teacher for the little ones...hopefully I won't have to volunteer!
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Wednesday 2 January 2008

Kim's Leg Brace



Here's a quick shot of Kim a few weeks ago in his leg brace. It was a little too long and dug into him in a few places, luckily now he doesn't need it much if at all. He's playing a tiny game of catch with the girls with a soft ball, sorry it's a bit small, I'll pick medium next time :) He's going really well now, you can hardly see a limp, and except that he moves a lot slower than his customary light-speed, you wouldn't know anything was wrong. We're seeing the GP today just for a bit of reassurance as it has been a bit sore, probably from overdoing it, but he expects that if he takes it "really easy" for a "whole day" after overdoing it for several days, then it goes back to normal immediately *big sigh*.

Baby girl has gone to sleep in the current best-for-going-to-sleep carrier so I'd better go put her down and get onto things. Part of the dishwasher broke yesterday, which Kim is trying to fix, but if he can't, I've got to put away the drainer full of stuff and wash all the plates and bowls and stuff...I hate washing by hand :(

I've found the drop-down list on this page where I can choose which blog I post to, so hopefully things will land in the right place from now on LOL!
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Tuesday 1 January 2008

The Man with a Horse Magnet in his Bum!

Here's hubby working on Louie. I swear the man has a horse magnet in his bum! He assures me that he used to, it's nowhere near as good now as it used to be LOL! I have a few small videos of him doing groundwork and a very little riding, I'll try and get them uploaded to youtube so you can see him in action! I think he's just gorgeous ;) Hubby and the horse ROFL!

He's started him reasonably calmly like I asked, there were a few battles of wills along the way as there always are. Louie's not a young horse, he's big and strong, he's had to be very careful to make sure he's not going to run over the top of me, as he's always been prone to a bit of pushing people around, Kim noticed it when he was a tiny foal even.

He's going really well under (treeless) saddle. I also bought a bitless bridle but got the wrong size, and by the time the right one came, hubby had already had his operation so riding is out of the question for now. I don't have the skill to get him accustomed to it...it kind of felt like trying to learn to drive a car on those stupid Playstation machines, when I grew up playing Outrunner on Sega LOL! I'm certain that once hubby is up and riding, it will be a great success though :) Or maybe I'll try it on one of the other horses if I ever get the energy, right now I'm flat out getting even some of the work that Louie needs done *sigh*

It's cold and wet here, yesterday was filthy, blowing a gale and sideways rain, I didn't even attempt to ride. I went out in hubby's wet weather gear to feed the calf and check a trough, Louie thought the swish-swish of the WWG was a bit scary and that I might eat him up LOL! We had a bit of a 'chat' about it and I rubbed him over so he could see it was just 'clothes'.

Better get out there, it's not raining right now but it looks like it could come in filthy again soon...oh well, even if it's not really raining, at least it's not drying out like it was a few days ago. I have to try and get some mowing done today too - thank heavens for ride-ons!


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