Summer rain

Right at the moment in Kalgoorlie, it is raining iceblocks (as Caitlin would say). The weather has me completely baffled! The picture above is of the wet grey sky, and below is a little video of the hail hitting the ground. The hail stones are between the size of a 5c piece and a flat stone of about 50c size!

Pool Time

Summer has really hit here! We have had a run for the past week of super humid weather and hot to go with it. I am so ready for some "normal" weather!

We have had the paddle pool out for the kids and they had so much fun in it. I have taken a video of them, but after two attempts to upload it, it just isn't happening. I will post some photos instead.







I was at Cindy's on the weekend and she had some water pumper things that I might get for the kids to use in the paddle pool. Caitlin had heaps of fun sucking up water from their pool and squirting it out.

Our fridge has broken down and has been out of action for a week now. It started with it making a terrible loud noise, but deteriorated into it keeping a temperature of between 16 and 21 degrees! We have moved everything into the bar fridge and has been very interresting to say the least! Samsung and also Harvey Norman have not been as helpful as they could have been. There seems to be no service person in town, so that has made it extremely difficult. The last lady I spoke to on Friday told me that she would have it sorted first thing on Monday morning. Needless to say, we haven't heard a thing from them yet!

It has been reconfirmed over the weekend that there are some people in this world that are not as nice as they could be. It always disappoints me when people are mis-informed and will not listen to another point of view. Those who think they are "right" seen always to be "righteous" (unfortunately there is a really good reason for this gem of wisdom!).

I just did a dash to the clothes line because there is a thunder storm brewing. While I was out there Caitlin was jumping on the trampoline with her umbrella so she didn't get wet! She is such a funny little bunny!

I have been having some fun with my scrapping recently. I have been making some Christmas decorations out of paper and also some altered glass ones. I am so happy with how they have come up. I will post a photo when I have some.

I have found some cool web sites recently.

Wednesday's Wishes is a new online shop by Maxine Hazebroek and Audrey Underwood. They make the most divine off the page items and sell kits for them on their site. I love drooling over their great works of art!

Tammy's Recipes is a cooking site that I came across when following some links from someone else's blog. I love the look of her apple brownies.

Empire Beads is a bead shop (obviously!) and it has great beads for craft work. I love their huge range of pearls. You can get a bag of about 20 8mm pearls for 88c. Wow, that is great value!

Caitlin is itching for me to play and paint and draw (she just won naughts and crosses), so I had better get moving!

Walking and climbing

We went to Kennedy park on good Friday. The slide there generates a huge ammount of static and Callum's hair went silly! As soon as he put his feet on the ground, his hair fell back onto his head, like magic!



I love this photo of Cal. He has such a cheeky grin. He has just had another bout of tonsilitis, so his cheeky grin evaporated for a while, but we seem to be getting back on track with his tonsils again.

Callum is walking everywhere now and has lost that baby "toddle". He walks with his arms down mostly now rather than held high to balance himself. He started walking full time over the easter weekend (about the 12th of April).

He has also discovered climbing! I suppose he sees Caitlin climbing on things so thinks he is fine to as well!The slide is his main climbing frame, but only a couple of days ago I watched him pull the kids cane chair over to my scrabooking desk, climb on it and proceed to take what he thought was interresting off my desk! I found it funny that first time, but it has shown me that I shouldn't keep anything out on my desk. Hence, my job this weekend is to tidy off my desk and make it safe (and workable again!). No pig stabbers in Cal's fingers (shutting them in doors is bad enough)!

First time at the Beach

We had a trip to the beach today. It was the first time that Cal had been to the beach. He had a great time, but got cold fairly quickly. He was loving the water and splashed heaps, played with the sand and of course tried to eat some too!

Caitlin was so excited too. She had only had a splash at the edge of the water and a dig in the sand since being here and today actually got her bathers on. She loves the rock pools, but we have to be so careful of blue ringed octopus here. She was fascinated with the sea snails we found in a pool.

I will post photos of our trip to the beach in my next post.

A quick update of Callum's progress: he is trying hard to pull himself up to standing at the moment, and actually succeded last night in the bath! It is really hard to sit him down on his bottom at all because he wants to stand and walk with you. I have been trying to give him as much practice as possible so that he gets stronger every day and improves his ballance.