Going to Ohio

We spent A LOT of time in the car on Friday driving to Columbus Ohio to visit friends who moved there. Here is Alex checking out Goran's workplace at Ohio Wesleyan with his girlfriend, Kat. Alex LOVES Kat and Goran - between Kat's shoes and handbags, and Goran's "Bush Gems" and BBQ-ing she was in 7th heaven. When we got home yesterday, she asked if we were going back to Ohio...





On the way there we stopped for lunch at a lovely park - and had a great picnic first and then played in a terrific playground. Alex was wearing her "I love Daddy" t-shirt and spent lots of time with him in the playground. About the only issue with the trip was on the return when we ran in the Indy-500 traffic in Indiannapolis...yuck! We were very well looked after by Kat and Goran and had a ball - it was nice to get to see them before they head off to Europe for the summer.

Guilt, guilt, guilt

OK, so I'm practically in my third trimester with baby #2 and I finally acknowledge that I am yet to put all of those "Alex Year One" photos together in a book. So I guess you could say it's like nesting - I took the first step yesterday and put together her first page...

One down, goodness only knows how many left to go! Anyway, I did get a sense of achievement once I saw that it was done and have made a promise to get 3 pages a week done. A realistic goal I hope and one that should see Alex's scrapbook finished before baby #2 arrives!

Just like daddy

After daddy goes on his marathon training runs, he spends some time doing ice massage to the bottoms of his feet (plantar fasciitis) which Alex has observed numerous times. So this time when daddy had retrieved the ice bottle from the freezer, Alex pounced and started her ice massage - Brett and I were both in stitches! She also stretches her calves etc just like daddy too - without having done the 5 miles beforehand of course. I only have video of that so this photo of the ice massage will have to do.

I can sleep anywhere...

Wow! After a swim at Sholem and then a bikeride to Emily's birthday party, Alex was pooped. She had actually been asleep for 10 minutes on the back of Brett's bike so we left her in the seat to sleep for as long as possible - oblivious to the party going on around her! She was asleep for about 20 minutes - no mean feat strapped upright into the bikeseat (which is even more upright than the carseat)!

Can you resist this face?

Well I can't - not often anyway! Although with the "terrible twos" well and truly here, I am finding it easier and easier as this is not the face doing the screaming-blue-murder! I also like this photo because it shows her hair done - she likes to decide how it will be: pigtails, ponytail, derry-werry, braids or Princess Leia.

Busy, busy June

Well it is the start of summer and already it is hot, hot, hot! We have a pool pass that we intend to make very good use of and of course there are many playgroups to go to! Last weekend we had a "Bounce into Summer" event that included a bounce house (bouncing castle -Aussie speak) and icecream. Although adamantly stating she wasn't going in the bounce house, Alex ended up loving it and spent quite a bit of time there. The rest of the time she spent playing with her daddy. We are also making mini pizzas every week - and now that Alex has a step stool in the kitchen, she insists on "helping". It's great that she likes pizzas because it is the only way to get her to eat capsicum (pepper - US speak), mushroom, onion, tomato and pepperoni in one mouthful!