New additions to the Family

Look. Our family has expanded.

This here are Princess Leia and Hannah Montana. As you can see, they are two much loved new family members.


We decided a couple of weeks ago to have a go at having chooks. I found a company called Rent a Chook. They make it very easy. You buy a chookpen, food, hay and two chooks, take the whole lot home and see how you go. If you don't like it, you can return them within 6 weeks and you get your money back (minus the $100 deposit).Not a bad deal. I went for a small mobile second hand coop, as I really want the chooks to roam around freely.

The kids think they are the best pets. Nice and big, relatively easy to catch and hold and pat and cuddle and kiss. Within weeks they started laying eggs, first one, and now two eggs wait for us every morning. And yes, fresh eggs are something else! The kids open the chook pen every morning when we head off to school, and close it when they come home (and before it gets dark and the fox comes calling!).

The only trouble is, they like going to the neighbours' gardens, and some of them are not too keen on the mess the girls make. I shoo them away whenever I see them, and put the hose on them if they are in range. They should learn quickly - and then of course, I will placate the neighbours with a monthly fresh supply of eggs.

Beaver Boy

Beaver Boy is having a good patch.

Last week, he received a Headmaster's Award for Courage at school. Handed to him by the headmaster, in full assembly. The boy was proud.

He also got a Star of the Week at Drama classes that Saturday. And this week, he was awarded Merit Card for helping a mother at the school who was looking for something she lost, of his own volition. Proud again. He has also learned to button his shirt.

Yes, he's having a good patch. He's happy, cheeky, boisterous, and very busy learning his lines for this year's Shakespeare play. He has 5 solo lines, and then about 20 as part of the Chorus, which I assume involves a big group. Possum is learning his lines too, so it's all Ye Olde English in this house at the moment. The kids are doing shows again and they've even started writing their own plays in the school playground at lunchtime play. Finally something at lunchtime play Beaver loves to join in with. Today he took a silly hat for their play, in which he plays "a baddie". That's all I know. That's all I need to know. His class is playing something, and he's a part in it. Unbelievable.

But the most amazing development is in the bedroom.

Yes.

Yes!

Beaver is sleeping in his own bed again!

Two weeks ago he suddenly decided that he would like to sleep in the same room as his brother, so they get to chat in the dark together. We put the boys to bed, fully expecting Beaver to turn up after some minutes. He didn't . We figured he'd come when we go to bed. He didn't. We expected it to last only one or two nights. It's been more than two weeks now.

I've probably jinxed it by posting about it today, but we're starting to get hopeful here.

And we're enjoying the new found freedom of being able to go into our bedroom to get a jumper. There are no longer bedsheets on the sofa.

We still live in wonder at such mundane things...

I know you can't quite believe it either. So tonight, I'll take a picture. Ok?