July jaunts

Hello again from a wet and chilly Melbourne. We are learning to love the rain, cos rain means snow in the mountains and we have booked to go skiiing this weekend! Skiing in July. Crazy stuff. Actually a lot of the Aussies seem to have a sense that it's just not quite right to have the seasons this way round (heritage I suppose) and you see shops selling tinsel, fake trees etc for 'Christmas in July' celebrations that people do.

We are finally starting to feel a bit better. I had to go on antibios in the end for a chest infection. The kids are taking a few days break from being snotty, although D is still afflicted with teeth issues. Actually her teeth are coming through in a very odd looking way. The top two middle ones not thru yet but the next ones across on each side have come out mid way down the gum, almost like they are pushing forward as well as down. She looks like a little vampire when she grins! Suffice to say there has been an element of wailing in the night (her and me) and you can't even buy Medised (sure fire knockout drops) here. I had a discussion with a friendly pharmacist today about how I might mix my own. Dulcie has started crawling in a rather determined way. She also hates being carried and deplores being sat down. She tries to hurl herself out of our arms and insists on being stood up against things. Alarmingly this has co-incided with Thea going through a phase of increased creativity which involves cutting, sticking, building, gluing, taping, and a lot of dropping small items on the floor. We are averaging around 3 choke hazards a day..

Photos for this blog entry include the wonderful Pixar exhibition that we went to see in the city centre the other weekend, a trip that we did with our friends Emma, Alec and Sebastian to Weribee Safari Park (the kids had more fun bundling each other on the slide than on the safari bus, I think) and Thea's trip to the wonderful Kew traffic school. This is where kids cycle their bikes round a mini road system, complete with dinky functioning traffic lights and painted sheds to look like little buildings, supposedly to learn the highway code. Hmmm. Thea spent more time playing shops in the huts than actually cycling, but she had fun.