EEEEEWWWW!

I have just spent three hours picking nits and lice out of Charlotte's hair. It sends chills down my spine. She had swimming lessons this morning and Daryl was changing her afterwards while we waited outside. He then came running out 'we've got a problem'. I always knew that one day we'd probably have to deal with them, but i was ever hopeful. Charlotte was so good and ever so patient with me pulling and picking thru her hair. Thank goodness for cartoon network!
Definitely not something i hope to have to do again though.

Opera in the park

They had opera in the park last night. We could just hear it from our house. It was kinda neat though to sit outside in the dark and listen and then of course there were the fireworks at the end. Always a great sight. Very magical.

Our life, currently.

Well i've only just started blogging and i'm already feeling neglectful of it. Sadly though i just don't seem to have too much to say on here at the moment (makes life seem somewhat mundane huh!?!). Mon, Tues, and Thur afternoons are kindy, Wed afternoons are Charlotte's dance classes, Friday is housework and the rest of the time is spent trying to keep things organised for these things. It seems that there is a lot of planning needed to be able to function with two small kids to plan around. Still i wouldn't give any of it up, although hubby would dearly love me to, so he can have a turn. I love being at home with the girls.
We have also finally almost finished the back yard and gardens. The house will be advertised on the market from next weekend, which i'm kindv'e dreading as i'll have to kick the organisation/tidy thing up another notch, but it's kind've exciting too. I'm really excited about the idea of building again too. We've learnt so much from the first two houses and i have some lovely ideas of what i really want now, the big thing is convincing hubby who has quite different tastes to me. I'm also looking forward to moving back to the flat for the kids. The view on the hill is fantastic and will be missed, but the practicality of indoor/outdoor playing for the girls will be so much better with a flat section and single storey house, especially now with Maggie crawling.

Snap happy

Here area some lovely photos of Maggie enjoying a strawberry.

I have just changed my profile name too. I am pretty trigger happy with the camera and have decided that this blog will probably end up being a bit of a photo showcase.

Two princesses

This photo of the two girls was taken today.

One door opens, another closes

Very sadly I got my rag back for the first time a couple of weeks ago since having Maggie. The worst thing is that the hormones somehow seem to have affected my milk which has taken a nose dive, so i am having to go to first and last feed only. I hate it when choices are taken away from me. For about two weeks Maggie has been waking in the night, i was kinda thinking maybe a growth spurt or perhaps teething, but the other night i feed her as usual and put her down, but she wasn't that keen on bed, so i got her back up and thought maybe i might just try to top her up with a bottle. She drank the whole bottle and then slept the whole night. Yesterday was the first day of bottle and with our night out last night it has really been nearly 24 hours since our last feed and i am only just full now. So sad!

A night off!

I did it. Charlotte went with Nana P and Maggie went with Nana G and hubby and i had a lovely night out. (With a bit of forethought though we should have found a babysitter for the dogs too, then the night would have been really good). We had a lovely meal out and then went to the movies. I was mostly pretty good. I had a couple of moments during the movie of separation anxiety, but they passed. I will own up to texting Mum after the movie though, just to check all was okay.
Movie was great. Dreamgirls (who knew Eddie Murphy could sing!). There was one or two moments where there was too much singing (yes i know it was a musical), but there was just a few occasions where the song shouldv'e finished five minutes ago. Still they were very good singers and i had a few goosebump moments.