Little blue eyes and his Sophie Giraffe

I wasn’t sure if his eyes were going to get darker, but they seem to be getting more and more blue everyday. And his little fuzz cut is surprisingly blonde, with a good degree of crazy professor frizz.

Adam has been bringing everything to his mouth, and grabbing whatever his hands happen to be able to reach, and once he has something bringing it to his mouth. When he happens to grab some food he has mostly brought it to his mouth and then moved on, but today he got a taste of some mango and it clearly hit the spot. He noshed along on that, even managed to nibble off little pieces – first food!

One of our fish has been acting strangely for a very long time, nearly a year. All of the other fish have been fine, so we knew it was just something with that fish, and the way it behaved at times made us think it had had a stroke. Now, after a long stretch of strange behaviour, Berns the 2nd has died.

The final resting pose of Berns the 2nd

It is not as upsetting as last time a fish died, because I’ve been expecting this for a long time. I also had a plan for when she died – I gave the school a call and donated her body for medical research. This meant that I had to get Berns’ body there, which proved to be tricky based on the size of the fish.

This cooler box will just have to do

Apparently the fish was a hit, and the biology lesson was a bit more interesting, and a bit more messy than usual.

Go well Berns, your craziness in the pond will be missed.

Grace, Eli and Finn were playing some game which seemed involve Eli and Grace being robbers. They come out of the room with Eli shouting, “Mom, I a rubber! And Grace is a dancing rubber,” (she was in her ballet clothes). He runs up to Donné and starts to pretend to rub her, “I a rubber, I rub you out!”

We were in the shop looking for some lamb and Grace (reading through all the labels on the shelf) asks, “Dad, what are lion chops?”

And this little guy is 4 months old today

Adam rolled for the first time today! And then kept practising…

Adam has discovered himself in the mirror and loves to have long chats to his new found twin brother.

Aunty Annie made the littlies Christmas pyjamas, which they all had on today.

There are benefits to having a big sister who can read…