Yesterday I was speaking to my auditor about his twins. They are now about 5 and a half months old. He is not getting much sleep and he just sounds pretty bleak at the moment. When I look back over the past two years, some things feel so far away – like sleepless nights and nappy changes. It is a weird thing – when you are in it, it feels like it will never pass, but once it has passed it fades to a distant memory very quickly.

One thing is for certain, as Grace has grown and gotten older, both Donné & I have enjoyed her more and more. I love the process of her discovering the world around her and enjoy being a part of her new discoveries.

Bo the fireman tasting the birdseed. He might as well eat it as the birds don't seem interested (will have to work on the bird seed cake recipe).

Donné has been trying to get a decent shot like this for a while now.

Grace has started clicking her tongue – making a noise like the clip clop of horses feet. I think it is very cute, and am glad she is doing it as it means her oral motor planning is making nice progress.

Grace and I spent a lovely day with Karen and Caleb, building puzzles, swinging, reading, playing with prestik and washing various soft toys!  Grace became quiet attached to one of Caleb's bears and after dropping him in the sand, Caleb decided to give Bear a sand shower.  Of course the logical progression from this point is a proper bath with soapy water, so Bear as well as a few other friends got to have a bath. This turned out to be so much fun for both Caleb and Grace, and watching them was also treat.  There were two things I found rather amusing; watching Grace wash Bear, then rush over to the dirt make him dirty and then wash him off again and secondly dropping Bear into Caleb's bucket a number of times and as quickly as Bear was dropped into the bucket, he would be removed by Caleb and put back into Grace's bucket 🙂  

Just a few pics today.

I can't remember the last time I slept until I woke up on my own (i.e. without Grace or an alarm waking me up). This morning Grace decided to sleep in a bit and both her parents were awake before she was – I guess that was a late birthday present. Today was a great relaxing day with our friends Em & Jay who we appreciate so much – it is a blessing to have such special friends. Grace pottered around, played on her jungle gym, and just had a generally calm day.

I got to spend some fun time making bird seed cakes with Grace this morning while Donné was out at a baby shower. While we were out getting what we needed Grace kept saying, "bird" and then "nom, nom" (for eat). Once I got the very excited girl home we just had a good time mixing gelatine and bird seed. I probably should have paid closer attention to the instructions (or looked for more instructions), as they pretty much fell apart when we took them out of the moulds….which lead to me spending time remaking them tonight. Hopefully they will have set properly by tomorrow….

Grace's leg is getting better everyday, but she still has a bit of a limp.

So today started with a trip to the X-ray rooms. Yesterday afternoon, while playing on her jungle gym, Grace stepped into a ditch in the garden and managed to do something to her left leg. The crying was not as bad as when she fractured her right leg (which was at 13 months), but she did not want to bear weight on it – just like when she fractured her leg. After some phone calls to the doctor we went off for X-rays, but got there after their normal business hours. So back we went this morning.