around here...

Happenings around here have been dominated this weekend by SNAKES...we have had 3 very close to the house...one in the carport, one on the back verandah near the pool and one near the laundry door...small dugites (they are a highly venomous snake found here in Western Australia)...they have all been dispatched...the third one the dog had in it's mouth but was not bitten...obviously there is a nest quite close to the house.... I'm hoping all the siblings have gone far far away....we haven't been out side much since...

Other than that...I did a bit of scrap booking (see post below)...and had a night out with my mum's group on Sunday night...Evangeline went to a birthday party on Saturday...and to a friend's house while I was out on Sunday night...and Morganne practised her walking...so she is now taking lots of steps and mostly walking rather than crawling now...though she will still plop down and crawl a bit...She can reach the bench to get things...I am trying to get her interested in milk and she has finally drunk some...half a cup tonight...admittedly it did have a little Chocolate Quik in it...but she has totally refused both formula and milk up until now...And I myself NEVER drink straight milk...haven't since I was very young as the thought of it makes me sick...so maybe she is the same...but E and Ben do...so I figure she might get used to it...I am going to be away from home for the retreat in March and in hospital with Evangeline in April...so I want her to be able to have something other than water at bedtime and so on....but weaning has not been going well...and I do not want to force her to stop until she is ready...or unless she is getting towards two!

She is getting pretty good with a spoon these days too...especially if it is something like mashed potato...
Evangeline made her own afternoon tea today using her Pippi Longstockings tea set...and then washed up!
Other than that I am trying to get E to go to sleep earlier...she is often awake until 8.30 pm...in bed but awake...we have a good bedtime routine and she is in bed by 7 - 7.30...but then struggles to go to sleep...I am trying quiet music...and hoping things will improve as I do not feel she is getting enough sleep...

Mum came for tea Monday night and Sharon came for lunch today and brought CD of photos of Morganne's first birthday...shall get on and do a layout this week I think...

And that is about it for now! Lissy