Day 290 - A fruity afternoon tea

Spring and Summer are my favourite fruity times. The summer fruits are coming into season - delicious mango, strawberry, pineapple, berries - as you can see Ava likes to indulge in a bowl of these fruits too. 

Day 289 - Olivia

Tonight I captured this quick photo of Olivia - she is becoming quite camera shy, so lately I have been getting photos of her beautiful ears and neck, unless she is feeling photogenic. As you can see eating dinner is a finger affair in our house - unless there is gravy, then she uses her fork to scoop it up.

Day 288 - Giddy Up

Today we planned a day at the races with my dad as his present for Father's Day. Morgana, Isabel, Matt, Melanie and Dave came along as well. It was a beautiful day to spend at the races. The girls had a great time - Ava on the jumping castle and following Isabel around, Olivia drawing and also following Isabel around. There was a few moments of horse race watching - in today's photo I distracted Ava from the big race which she was watching with her dad.

It was a wonderful day, with wonderful company - some wonderful gambling results for some as well. Looking forward to planning another very soon.

Day 287 - Big bear cuddles

Today, like most days,when I am looking for Ava, I found her lounging around with nanny's big bears on her bed. She is either cuddling those bears or carrying around her bears like babies and playing imaginary games with them. I just love this picture that my mum took of Ava today giving the bears an extra big cuddle.

Day 286 - Meeting Joseph.

Today we went over and met beautiful baby Joseph who is just 5 days old. Such a beautiful treasure. He is the newest addition to the lovely Agius family. Mel, Simon and Patrick were very gracious enough to allow us to come visit so early on. Ava has been asking me every day when we could see Mel's baby, for this reason alone, I was excited to visit.

Funnily enough when we got there, she wasn't smothering baby Joseph, instead made herself at home with all of Patrick's toys.... luckily the Agius family home is like her second home! Before we went home, she had a cuddle with Joseph, Olivia wasn't so so fussed, but she'll be back around soon for a cuddle.

Congratulations Agius family - you all look amazing! Who knew you had a baby just a few days ago? We look forward to watching your newest addition grow up to be a fine young man.

Day 285 - Wet and Spotty

It was a very wet and miserable day today. I was quite happy to stay inside - without a duty today at school, made for a very productive day. My beautiful bright spotty umbrella brightened the day a little when I did have to go outside. This is all I managed to get a photo of today - luckily it fitted with the theme of 'close up'.

Day 284 - Emotions

Emotions are so varied in the afternoon at our house. They range from extremely happy through to devastatingly tired and sad. This afternoon when I picked the girls up from school this afternoon, they were indeed very happy, as usually today is a Daddy pick up day, it was a nice surprise that I got there first. While enjoying an afternoon snack of strawberries, I tried to capture as many different emotions of the girls. I think Ava's surprised face is my favourite.