yay - new photos!

Lewis after having apple (apple juice in something I think)




Lewis normally!



Max and Maeve being silly yesterday morning - complete with peanut butter faces!





Lewis scooting around (backwards) on the floor today until he ran into the couch and slowly began to be swallowed up under it!

no photos

sorry. things have been a little crazy here, Lewis has been quite sick and I jsut find it hard to find the time or motivation to pick up a camera. Mine's stuffed anyway as my battery re-charger doesn't work - so that's a small problem.

Just chillin'

first solids

Lewis started solids this week. Pumpkin is a huge hit - he loves it. Tried apple yesterday and he wasn't too keen on it. These photos are kind of gross - looks like he has massive amounts of orange snot running down his face!! Believe me, this is day 3 of solids and there was a lot more going in than there was on day 1!!!


And for comparisons sake, and because I think the resemblance is uncanny, here's Maeve at virtually the same age - I think she started solids a little earlier, so not as messy, but darken the hair, make the eyebrows bushier (!!) and I think I'd have a hard time telling them apart. Can't compare Max's photos because that was pre-digital and I can't be stuffed scanning!!

Birthday girl

As part of the party the kids got to make their own party hats ... here's Max's creation:

My masterpiece!

baby blessings & other stuff

The Leicester and Hardman families ... lucky all the Leicester's weren't there or we wouldn't have fit in the photo!

Lewis was a little perplexed at the whole day! Look at those eyebrows!
Matt with his hands full!
And Hannah ...
cool dude!

We've been having some trouble with some of the electrics in our house for a little while with it getting worse and worse with the circuit breaker tripping at least once every day, sometimes a couple of times a day. We weren't sure what was causing it and couldn't isolate a particular appliance which might be causing the problem. On Friday night after the circuit breaker tripped 3 times in the space of as many minutes, we thought maybe our resident possum might have caused some damage. We often hear the possum scratching in the wall behind a particular power point in our lounge room.

So we unscrewed the power point ... this is what we found ...

The black and the yellow wires were pretty much stripped bare and when we unscrewed the power point we found the little bugger clinging to the wires and his teeth and nose poking out the hole checking us out! It was quite cute ... and lucky it wasn't dead!

We taped up the wires and poured naphthalene flakes in the hole, apparently they don't like the smell. Indeed, the possum has not been back in that spot ... yet. Now we have to block up it's entry/exit points and find the little creature a new home.


Max making paper planes

And the cutest baby boy in the world

1 July photos

It's school holidays and Max and Maeve had an invitation to a 'Princess & Prince' party for a 3 year old in our neighbourhood. Max was the only prince ... !! Anyway, these 2 are photos of the crowns they made at the party - about the only time Maeve has willingly posed for a photos and asked me to take her picture!

Max had the camera again today and I saw him taking a series of self portraits. I don't know how he learnt to do this, I've never showed him. Most of them were great nostril shots (and they weren't entirely clean), so I thought we wouldn't post those ones!
Max is really enjoying having some time at home with Lewis while Lewis is awake and there's nothing else that he has to do, like get dressed for school etc, so has been asking for a bit of cuddle time and is quite happy to sit on the couch with Lewis for ages, just holding him!
And my 3 beautiful children together, having a cuddle! I love this photo.