Its moving day for a couple of days at least to Williamstown. The pressure is also on now to move everything out of the nursing home. We were given a weeks grace but that's it, the room is now up for the next person. Evie has gotten to know this house well now. She knows where certain things are and which cupboards to get into. The latest thing is the curtain pulley ropes. They seem to make good swings. Charlie has kept her in line with a foot in the face.
Everything takes three times longer. I have forgotten how small kids work. Slowly. The daily beach ritual lasts about 90min from 10:30am til 12 noon. That leaves time for lunch then the afternoon nap. In Debbie's case that means time for Eulogy honing. The last effort was this morning. It took a long time to cull from 3800 to 2600 words but that is the final draft. I kept Evie busy with new games like riding the exerciser. In the end she was fully kicking back with her own legs, pushing her weight upwards and away then coming back down for another go. That machine kept us occupied for an hour. The other new experience was sultanas. However she only got half a pack and if she can see that what ever it is is empty then she will accept that and move on.
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| The Sunsets are still there. We are just slow to move by the end of the day. |
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| Bright and cheery for some 7:00am walks along the cliff tops. |
Asher is surrounded by new babies and pregnant mothers at the moment and had a long play session with Laura who was the Doctor and Asher who had the baby in her tummy. Elsewhere Debbie has been sequestered (mainly at 4:00am) while she works on Nana Beryl's life story. In the meantime it is beaching as normal around 10:30am and back home around Noon for some lunch and a 1:00pm sleep for Evie. Each day she is more comfortable further out from the shore. She now handles shells, sea grass and soft jelly fish.
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| Beach Babes |
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| Big Belly Asher |
I have to type quickly as Nana Debbie has taken a break because Asher had just arrived and Evie has been waiting and waiting for Asher so we can go to the beach. I just got peed on by Charlie so it is all happening. Still haven't got to any videos of late. In a quiet 5 mins between sleeping babies I have gotten to the videos. There are a few longer tea party ones but the short drawing one is below.
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| hand in hand twins |
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| big foot |
It was returned cousins day with Laura coming back from Euroa and James from Tassie, which meant we had three kiddies on the floor all rolling around. We got the two Eees over to the beach in the afternoon. There was a stiff breeze but the Sun was out and the water warmish. They ate a whole tray of food between them. Much later we had a slide show of the Tassie trip including boating around Bruny Island as well as another show from Euroa, with farm animals like horses and chickens and some quad bike riding thrown in.
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| Stroller Derby |
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| Three on the floor and the other one said rollover rollover |
James, Heide and Estelle arrived back on the Tassie boat at 6:00am. It seems Estelle had her best sleep in one of the Tassie Spirit cabins so it has been all energy and vigour since she arrived. One of the activities involves a kind of artists geocache. Heidi found a painted bug rock with information on how to add its movements to a list on Facebook. The eletronic version would be to embed a GPS locator in it some how but that is just me. I walked Estelle across the road and she placed the bug on the arm of one of the chairs there. Now we get many visitors to that seat, so let's see if it can migrate any further. I have trained a telescope onto its location so we will see at a glance if the bug has taken flight.
The on going Beryl photo scanning is far from completed but there is plenty available to showcase a life well lived. I have gathered over 300 photos for Elyce to ponder over for the presentation. I have plucked just one to show here but I have never seen her on a bicycle other than this shot. This is around 1948.
