Rachel's Ramblings: April 2011

It looks like this is yet another post with *many* photos, and only time for a few words. I always feel I need to keep up with organising and uploading photos, or I end up with over 100 photos on my camera to sort through. (I think the problem is I take too many photos!) Anyway, this won't be a proper update, but just bringing my photos up to date! :-)

Two weeks ago we had an outing with a few other families connected with our homeschool group. We went to a place called "The Floral Hall" in Inverness. I didn't even know it existed, but it was a lovely place to visit. And with admission being only £2 for adults and children of *all* ages free, it was good value!

Here's Clement looking at some of the large Koi fish at The Floral Hall.

Benjamin walking through the "rain forest" :-)

Looking at fish again

Benjamin on a small bridge

Lots of lovely tropical plants

Beautiful flowers

Some friends looking at the display of carnivorous plants!

More beautiful flowers

Clement in the vegetable garden there

Some of the children

Deborah relaxing in the Mountain Buggy - sock removed and playing with toes, of course! :)

The three 4 year olds (with Clement in the background)! I think it's really neat that they're all so close in age! The boys (B and J) were born on the same day and the girl (R) 3-4 days before them! :-)

Abigail's best friend, Rebekah! :-)

Still having fun with these wooden sculptures!

And sitting on them!

And Clement enjoyed sitting in the bear's lap :)

R again

Transporting 3 children with ease! :) My ancient double Mountain Buggy Terrain that I got off ebay! I bought a Kiddyboard to put on the back, so Benjamin can stand while the youngest 2 are seated. It's quite good and very light & easy to push.

My darling Deborah! Wearing another dress that my dear friend Marilyn made for her! :-D

Sitting in a laundry tub!

An attempt at introducing solids to Deborah, but she's *not* very impressed. She does the most awful faces and makes it very clear that she *doesn't* think food tastes very good. She'll also loudly spit it back out at us! Of course, she's a very chubby baby on nothing but mummy's milk (and still sleeps wonderfully at night), so no big deal that she doesn't want to eat anything yet.

The oldest 3, sitting on the table [blush] and eating chocolate cookies!

And same again, this time at the park last week

My dear daughters, in matching pyjamas!

And finally, Happy Birthday to Clement! He turned 2 on Monday this week (11th).

Deborah thought it was brilliant that I sat her next to his present, and she immediately started opening his present!! She tore the piece off completely and then thought it would be a tasty snack.