The Story Of Us 1: February 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A Little Lachie Love

- or Lach Star as Miss Chloe likes to call him.

He sure knows how to melt my heart, no wonder he has me completely wrapped around his little finger!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Trading

The last few weeks have seen some trading happening in our house.
We have been trading these..

for "unnies and snickers."
It started out with a lot of this...

The first morning she would take me to the toilet with the request, "Read me a book." I would tell her that we could read on the couch but I think she liked the novelty of it.
There is still a fair bit of this...

It has also led to a lot (and I mean a lot) of this...

(In case you can't tell Chloe has her shoes on the wrong feet and her pants on backwards, there is always something backwards). Chloe insists on dressing herself numerous times throughout the day; her draws are a shamble.

She picked it up so quickly and after a couple of days takes herself without having to be asked. I continually underestimate her and put her in nappies (just in case, like when we have a long car ride) only to have her take a dry nappie off and go to the toilet.

Alright, enough mummy talk....

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Wine Glass Bay, here we come!

I know that I said, "Wine Glass Bay, here we come." But I didn't think it would come so quickly.

On Friday we went on another impromptu camping trip to the east coast with Levi, Louise and their boys. After numerous phone calls trying to decide where we were going to stay we decided on Bicheno. After tea on the first night we went down to the beach to see the penguins however we only saw one so I think we were in the wrong spot.
The next day after the boys came back from a dive we all went out on the boat to go fishing however there were lots of squid around so that is all we caught. The kids were great especially this little one.

I spy with my little eye...how many sleeping children?

After our fishing trip our camping buddies packed up to go 4 Wheeler riding at St Helens while we hung out in the tent and then went to the beach.

I don't know if we were just unlucky and there at the wrong time but the beaches at Bicheno smelt. I kept saying how stinky they were and then I heard Chloe say that she wanted to go to the "Stinky Beach."

The next day we packed up and headed to Wine Glass Bay. As we were driving there the sky clouded over but we decided to go anyway with only one umbrella to protect us if the rain came. To get to Wine Glass Bay you hike up the mountain and then down the other side. At the top of the mountain there is a lookout of the bay. It was here I realised how much further we had to go but at least it was downhill, right. As we were going down the thought of what goes down must come up scared me as parts of the track were only fit for a mountain goat, I had a child strapped to me and my fitness level is somewhat lacking to say the least. On a sunny day the water at Wine Glass Bay is normally a beautiful blue however because it was overcast everything was grey.

We made it down and were greeted by a friendly little wallaby that kept trying to take Chloe's lunch. It also attracted alot of tourists that all hovered to try and get a photo. We kept trying to move out of the way as people were taking photos (who knows how many people have us sitting in the background of their photos all red and flustered eating our lunch, very attractive :).

We stayed at the beach for a while (I was putting off the hike up the hill as long as possible :). While we were there we were lucky enough to see a pod of dolphins swimming in the bay, how lucky are we?!

Lachie has developed a little obsession with eating sand that is starting to get out of control. He fights you to get the handful of sand into his mouth and gets upset when you stop him from doing it.

We finally packed up and started our walk back. I did take some photos on the way back but they are all pretty poor or blurry as I was shaking (I told you I was seriously unfit) and just too tired. I'm sure the track back got longer while we were at the beach but we finally made it back to the car, yeah! I had never been so happy to have to sit in the car for a few hours while we drove home (until Lachie started crying).

It was good to get away again and to see Wine Glass Bay (even if the weather was grey and my calves were paying for a coupe of days).

Monday, February 9, 2009

An impromptu weekend away

On Friday we decided to go on an impromptu camping trip to Bridport for the night. I was a bit apprehensive about all four of us being stuck in a small tent sharing the one air mattress for the night but the kids were no worse than at home (at the moment Lachie thinks that night time = all night party with milk on tap :). Chloe loved everything about camping. Whats not to love when you are two; tents, torches, bouncy beds, fish and chips for tea, staying up late and a tame little possum to say goodnight to.

The next morning we all went out for a fish. Chloe is her Daddies little girl, she loves being in the boat and fishing. The first few times that Eden took Chloe fishing she dangled his rod dangerously close over the edge so we bought her a cheap fluro orange Kmart rod.

The fish at Bidport must like fluro orange because we caught most of the fish on it. Here is Chloe reeling in her first ever fish (a nice sized flathead). We must have been in the right spot at the right time because the fish were biting. In the photo below Eden is a watching his rod as a fish has taken a bite.

After a little bit of fishing the rocking of the boat was too much for Chloe and she joined Lachlan for a little nap.

After lunch we let Chloe have a play at the beach while we tried to stretch Lachie out so he would sleep on the way home (he cried all the way to Bridport). Chloe went rock climbing and would probably be still scaling rock walls if I hadn't encouraged (bribed) her come down.

Chloe loves the beach and has a fascination with rolling around in the sand until she is covered in it. Lachie hasn't yet discovered the joy of sand rolling yet but he still loves eating it.

Tiring the kids out worked with both of them sleeping most of the way home. This meant that rather then being stuck in the back seat singing ABCD and the Wheels of the Bus countless times and trying without success to calm an upset baby I was able sit in the front (like a grown up) and have adult conversation and do a little knitting (in preparation for my second Tassie winter).

As our little trip went well I can see some longer adventures happening in our future (Wineglass Bay, here we come :)

Thursday, February 5, 2009

heart...

Today while Chloe was playing with her play dough she came up to me with a heart and said that it was for best friends. While I don't think that she intended to make a heart when she saw what it was she knew what it meant. I don't remember ever explicitly teaching her that hearts mean love and caring. I am always amazed at how children 'pick things up' without us trying.

I asked her who the heart was for and she said it was for me. Its good to now that I am back to being her bestie :)

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Doing her part...

What a water wise daughter we have! While Eden washes the boat she washes herself and her clothes. Oh, Clo, if only everyone could be as green as you :)

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