A trip to the beach

With the warm evenings looking like they were never going to end, we took a trip to the beach in Fremantle a few weeks back. We had such a lovely evening with Laura playing and dancing at the waters edge, we were even lucky enough to see dolphins playing close by.

The Easter Bunny came!

Laura's easter nests that she made.

Blowing eggs and decorating them!

We had a lovely easter, spending it with family over 3 days. Copious amounts of chocolate was consumed and luckily Laura doesnt turn into a hyperactive toddler when she has sweets!

Laura made some lovely easter treats for everyone too.

Our trip to Dunsborough

We had an opportunity to go down south and stay in Davids Aunty and Uncles house in Dunsborough. It was a lovely place, 1 minutes walk to the beach and a much needed break for us. We stayed for 5 days and really enjoyed the relaxation and beautiful weather.

Amelia, our baby girl is 4 months old!

With her only Great Grandparent.
Super Nanny we call her!

Amelia has grown and grown! She has been in crawler nappies and clothes for 6 month olds for the past month! She will be tall like her sister. We measured Laura last week and she has grown 6cm in 6 months and is now 111cm tall, she is not even 4 yet.
At 6 weeks of age Amelia was seen by her paediatrician who commenced her on medication for terrible reflux. She was so very unsettled from 4 weeks of age and stopped sleeping, needed to be constantly carried around upright and wasnt feeding well. The medication has worked well and Catherine also discovered there were certain foods that made her reflux worse, so she has been on a wheat/gluten/dairy free diet for the past couple of months.

So now at 4 months of age, her sleeping is much better and she only wakes once in the night to breast feed. She sleeps well in the day and is much more settled. She is also sleeping in her cot like a big girl now! We get lots of laughs and smiles, she is rolling from front to back and almost from back to front. She reaches out for things and has recently discovered her toes, much to her delight!

She adores Laura and her face lights up every time she hears or sees her.

Life after the fire.

Well time has certainly flown by over the past 2 months. We returned back home after staying with David's parents for 2 weeks. We had the house professionally cleaned as there was smoke and ash damage. The garden on the other hand still looks like a pile of rubble! We have plans for a Busy Bee over 2 weekends in May so any family and friends can come and help us to rebuild and repair. The plan is to get it looking back to normal and put it back on the market. We will rent during this time as it was just too hard trying to do home opens and spur of the moment inspections by potential buyers. Once we have sold, we will then make the decision whether to build on our 5 acre block in Parkerville or to sell that too and buy established. So we are all looking forward to those busy bee weekends so we can move forward and move on!

The shire has been a great support and has offered to demolish all 72 houses that were burnt to the ground and all damaged structures. So our fence, pergola and shed will be removed shortly. Every day we hear bulldozers and someones lively hood being scraped up into the back of a dump truck. Its so sad to hear. But many, including our next door neighbors, have planned to rebuild.

The weather has finally started to cool. We have been having temperatures still in the 30s up to the middle of April and still no rain. So the cool change has been welcomed.