beach day

First haircut!

Wah, she is too small for haircuts! Even at four. Goodbye sweet little ringlets, hello big-girl curls. She is very proud of her new-do.


We celebrated with her having an ice cream and a twirly girly hula-hooping dance lesson. PS) This is her version of a 'smile' - when asked if she might possibly do one.....

being at home

pinterested!

Someone pinterested me! How funny. Wow, actually look..... just did a quick search! I have a page of pins from my blog... how weird! I think the 10 minute Pixie Hat post is my most viewed ever. To think it was one of those random funny quick sews that you make up after looking at a doll clothes making book..... and then never make again (or even think about again). Yet I see others have used it to make hats to sell, it is their, like, signature hat! Wow. Where was my copyright (or something...? Is that even the right term? *shrug*)? If only I were industrious enough or could be bothered. I might be rich! Well not really, it's only and old re-purposed hat after all... I am so amused by this. Had to share.

chick pics and some knitting

She is a defensive mother hen this one, although if I remember they all have been. Last time we had chicks one mother hen flew at me in rage when I tried to capture her escapie chick. She was a witch that hen, she even scared the rooster half to death. This one is just average in the protective stakes, she lets me put my hand in the pen to clean up and re fresh the water. It's enough. We all held one chick once very quickly, but to be honest it's cute enough just to watch them. I feel mean stressing out those tiny little things by holding them, so we don't really.



The kids? Well they are all on to the next thing now, what ever that may be, and I am sure it was only myself and Esmé who bothered to view them today, and Esmé only because she wanted to egg collect from the other hens. It's funny how you think to yourself that X and Y experiences would be so great for your kids, like veggie gardening and chick hatching, and raising hens and having a puppy (god I really could go on, it's likely a huge list), and sure they are fun things for a bit, and so exciting you think there could be nothing more entertaining or thrilling but like anything becomes familiar and thus non exciting. After a bit. Well not for me! Which is weird I suppose..... and I am not sure why, probably because mostly these were all my enthusiasms to begin with.





I knitted, another Coffee Bean.





Because I realised (shock horror) that the one I had knitted in the 3-6 month size was mostly a hot pink stripe. And what if this is a boy baby? I needed to knit a boy colour version. Yep. I am a colour gender person. Except with purple, because purple suits anyone. Well, pink can too, I really just needed a valid (ish) reason to cast on another. This one took less than a week (monkey face buttons!).



I would have been quicker too if I had not done a day or so of guilt knitting on the Kanoko Pants. Sigh. They are about 6-9 month size and I was bored by then pretty quickly. They have been on my work basket about 5 months waiting on me, looking at me in an accusing way when I go in there for something else. Like so why did you start us anyway if you can't be ass'd to finish us? Jeesh. I'll finish you! ......someday, for sure.



In the meantime I needed to do Very Important Sewing with an old flannel bed sheet.



An entire double flat sheet was whipped up into baby wipes; double layered, the size of a wash cloth, zig-zag edged. Easy, made about 40 before I changed direction and made breast pads! I seem to use about 7 zillion in the first moth after birth, it's like my boobs expected triplets, or quads. I had a huge bunch of nice cotton ones I bought for my last two babies, maybe twenty pairs, I then gave them away. So anyhow, I made some! And they were easy, if not the best looking pads in the world (but who's gonna see them?) 6 layers of the cotton, I used a roll of sellotape (the outer circle) to pencil around (it came to hand, what can I say) and then zig-zagged again. Voilá. Also in the stack on the pic are the many many fleece nappy liners I cut and whizzed up. I feel like eco mama looking at this lot. It's virtuous to make 'new' stuff out of old stuff. I can testify.

Also, here is our newly painted bathroom.



It is a slightly darker shade of green/sage/grey than shows up, but look! It matches my dress! I love it in there. It is the most relaxing room in the house now, and the cleanest. It smells of clay still and with the paintwork all fresh and white it's like, wow, I never realise how non white the old stuff had become. I did most of the painting myself, so again feeling pretty virtuous. And we have so much of this paint left I decided to use it on the other two bathrooms. I know. Don't say it, it's too many bathrooms. I think that a lot. Especially when too many little boys wee on the toilet seats and surrounding areas. But you don't get to pick these sorts of things when you rent a house. If you know what I mean. I'd much rather an extra bedroom instead so I could full fill Esmé 's dream of a hot pink Barbie looking boudoir with twinkle lights, and lots of pink things. But as it is I am just happy to have paint in a colour I love to keep on painting with :)

Just additionally - pics I took with instagram today :

~Belly getting in the way of chopping veggies:



~Esmé and her joy over new sand:

today~

today I:

~ went to the fair with two of my babes







~ played in the stream with one little girl





~ helped finish up painting the bathroom and had to kick out a slinking cat



~ walked, just one boy and I









~ went to town, just a girl and I to chat with friends and pick up our goat milk order





~ um, sorry, I also played around a bit with pin hole photography :) It is so fun.

Compared to just two Saturdays ago when I was working full time, this feel so relaxing and special :)