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This week I was prepared for Animation Friday and I actually made mine yesterday.  Yeah!
I hope you feel better soon Cintia. xx

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Not much is really happening over here, but if you travel to here, here, here and here.  You can see what all the cool people are doing.

I know I promised last week that I would come up with something special for Animation Friday, but I went for a reaaalllly long walk this morning with the girls and I hurt my foot and got a blister.
So, here is a really cute photo of Ava and Jessie.
I also don't know why my photo is really grainy.  I took it with Ash's fancy camera and I'm not sure what I did wrong.  It's okay though, I still had lots of fun.  xx

Yesterday while Ava had a nap, Piper and I watched the 1966 Audrey Hepburn film "How To Steal a Million."  Piper loved it or perhaps it was the cuddle and the time alone with me that she really loved.  Either way, I loved it too.

It has been six weeks since my hair snapped off in an unfortunate bleaching incident.  Every six weeks for the past 10 years, I have dyed the roots of my hair.  This will be the first time that I haven't, as I am wishing to grow it out.  Hopefully, in a few more weeks, I will have found enough courage to make an appointment with my hairdresser (who I haven't seen for 2 years and is not responsible in any way for the above incident) to get a nice cut.  But to honest though, I will probably chicken out and go up to my local Just Cuts.

Non-edible items that were eaten this week include:

1. 1/4 tub of Playdoh.  Yes, they do actually eat it.  Ava and Piper have eaten several tubs, but have only eaten 1/4 of this tub.  It must have been a slow week.

2.  Assorted flash cards and books.  This is all Piper.

3.  My Georg Jensen key ring which is now being held together with some pretty MT tape.  Thanks again to Piper.  xx

4.  My new knitting brooch that Ash bought for me while in Tasmania.  This was eaten by Beagle.

Piper loves to eat cardboard.  This an assortment of books she has eaten over the past year.  The blue book at the back was eaten on a recent trip to Ikea while the purple book in front of it was eaten on the way home.  I did have assorted snacks for them, but Piper preferred the books.  

It's Animation Friday again.  I really wish I would stop doing things at the last moment.  I thought of this idea a few days ago when I watched Ava rip the original cloud off the wall.  I wanted to make it yesterday, but I ran out of time.  We have also been super busy this morning with a doctors appointment at Ava's Paediatrician, then a quick trip into Medicare.  After that, we were on a mission to buy Daddy a gift to say sorry for being so cranky at the Peadiatricians.  We then drove aaalllll the way into the city to deliver Daddy's gift and then aaallll the way back to collect Piper from my Mum's.  Hhaaa.
If I was clever and had a little more time, Mr Fish would be moving, but I'm running late again and I really wanted to play. Thank you Cintia.  They are so much fun. I promise to put more effort in next week.  xx

Ava loves to look through my Fruits books.  So, I thought I'd share some of her favourite photos with you.

 

It's been raining really heavily here for the past week and today is the first day that we have been able to go outside.  The first thing Ava wished to do, was blow bubbles and then tend to her little garden.

It's so nice to be outside again.

Lost

I just wanted to write you a quick note to let you know that I have lost my way.  My blog has lost its direction and I need to take a moment to delete some posts and make some changes.
My "goals" posts and probably this post will be deleted.  It's not because I'm not achieving my goals, but when I look at my blog, I want to feel inspired and at the moment, it makes me feel flat.  So if things go missing, you will now know why.  xx

Too Delish

Both of our girls are really fussy eaters.  Ava refuses to eat anything that isn't cream in colour and Piper likes to carefully examine her food before deciding that it isn't macaroni and cheese and therefore, not worth her time.
I would love to tell you that they both ate and loved the yummy cereal in the above photo, but I can't.  I can tell you that Ava said, "Finished" before she even tried it and Piper did exactly as I described above.  Anyway, it really is delicious and I hope you will try it.

The recipe comes from The Australian Women's Weekly Cookbook called Healthy Babies.
      Fruit and Cereal Snack

• Preheat oven to 180 deg cel
• Combine 1/2 cup rice bubbles, 1/2 cup cornflakes and 1 cup flaked coconut in a large shallow baking dish
• Roast, uncovered for about 5 mins, stirring occasionally
• Transfer to a large bowl and allow to cool.
• Stir in 1/2 cup finely chopped dried pear, 1/3 cup finely chopped dried apple, 1/4 cup finely chopped seeded prunes (I left these out as I have a thing about prunes) and 1/2 cup of dried cranberries.

That's it.  You can have it with your favourite yoghurt or just with milk.

A Delicious Animation

Jo sent us another delicious batch of cookies today.  I could smell them as soon as I opened the parcel and they are sooooo yummy.  I just had to eat one for Animation Friday.  Thank you Jo.  You are just too sweet.  xx

I need a lot more practice at animating photos.  I don't know why I have a black line under each photo.  Sorry.  At least it was delicious and fun to make.