Grace has been expanding her palet and trying all sorts of things which she has not tried before or has not liked before. We recently discovered that she likes barbecue flavoured chips, so Donné decided to see if she might like a Fling. Grace brings it to her mouth, touches it with her tongue, stops and ends with, "No, still not nice."

It is finally done! The washing, snack and imaginary play station is done.

We picked up a little ditty from our friend Karen for tidy up time which we have sung since Grace was little. It has been a while since we sung it, but Grace has recently started to sing the song while we tidy up. Today (not at tidy up time) she was singing it and packing some things away. She then started taking pillows off the couch and saying, “Mess up time, mess up time.” Some yin for your yang.

Donné is sitting on the sofa and Coco (the cat) is rubbing up against her wanting some love. Grace is nearby and I say to her, “Coco is a needy cat.” Grace puts her hands on Coco and starts to knead her like a ball of dough. Well, that’s one way to interpret it.

Grace and Donné went to buy some new face wash and much to the delight of the store attendants, Grace says, "Got new face wash, go wash face now!" Because obviously Donné didn't wash her face before going out this morning.

I am getting really excited for when Mr Wriggles joins us in the world. I certainly have days of thinking, "Oh my word! It is going to be so hectic!" but I currently have a sense of peace about it – that somehow it is going to miraculously work out. It will be great to go through the baby process a second time, with new eyes that have a little bit of experience. A little boy is also going to be a wholly new experience, and probably more importantly he will just be an entirely new person with his own way of interacting with the world. Exciting times ahead.

It was the last swimming lesson for the term today, and the last month or so has been going really well. Grace has been loving swimming with Charlene and been making huge progress. Today was one of those wow days for me. The first thing I was really impressed with was Grace floating on her back on her own. In fact, she floated across the entire length of the pool on her back. I actually thought Charlene had been helping her, but she was just floating all by herself.

"Grace, if you try to grab that off my plate again then you can't have the chicken bones." Sometimes the things we negotiate with are unconventional….in this case Grace has decided that it is lots of fun to pick the meat off the chicken bones.

When we dropped Keren off at the airport the elephant outside the door was getting a fresh spray paint.

So when we were going to fetch Keren again, Grace was very excited to see the elephant.

Donné thought it might be better to just collect Keren from the drop & go, so she suggested this to Grace.

“I *have* to see the elephant, please mommy.” And with that emphatic plea, we went to see the elephant.