Quotes of the Day.

I had to brake a little suddenly today in the car coming up to a traffic light.
A little voice in the back seat piped up and we had the following conversation:
E: Mumma, you have to say loud "bloody"
Me: ?
E: You have to say out loud "bloody" Mum, to that man in the car. Say it!
Me: Umm why?
E: 'Cause we went forward back and we don't want to crash, so you have to say "bloody" to that man.
Me: umm...ok *insert embarrassed face*


Driving home from school pickup.
E: Big sister gets excited when Little sister is in the car.
(E is big sister, I is Little sister)

More on Esta soon in Part 3.

Breath of Life Part 3

Now, all about little Esta.

Who is now not so little.

In fact, it is extremely difficult to believe she is still only 2.

Esta is another little atom full of energy, but perhaps not so highly charged as India. This girl is a little more grounded. But just like her sister she is a terrific joker and they both love playing silly buggers together giggling hysterically the whole time they get up to their mischief

She's funny and has a very quirky humour just like her big sister. Her imagination runs wild pretty much all day long, and if we aren't running into animals constantly around the house (wild animals), we are in an altered reality where we are in fact other people or things. This week we are Lil Daughter and Big Daughter and Farda (Father) and Lil Mumma. Soon we'll be back to trains...Percy, Emily and Thomas. Last week we were our good friends and neighbours...Katie, Greta and Pete. And Esta plays hardcore, she will carry this on for days and will severely reprimand anyone (night or day) who slips up by calling someone by their real name.

Esta has recently started in a new daycare, right next door to the old one. We moved her, after much deliberation, so she isn't playing in a playground that sits right next to a main road and bus stop (in an effort to improve her health). The new one at least is about 20 metres further away. It was a difficult decision to change her, but she really loves it there in the Wombat room. She would love to go every day, because being at home when India is at school just doesn't cut it in the entertainment stakes. However, she does still love spending time with me and she'll ask me on our days together "So Momma, what we doin' today?"

Health wise she is doing ok-ish. We've managed to extend the period between antibiotic courses to about 3-4 weeks, instead of every 2. So things are looking up, but we'll see how we fair in winter.

The highlight of her week is swimming lessons. She's only begun this year, due to ill health previously. And she LOVES it. She looks forward each day to her next lesson and we talk about it often.

Esta also enjoys music and stories and running races in the backyard, and swinging on the swing and going to the library, and drawing/painting when I allow it as she is prone to decorating anything around her rather than the paper. She also loves to climb over the gate into India's room to play on the sly, sneak out in the mornings and watch the TV. In fact she enjoys a good sneak, and if you catch her or she's trying to do it in plain sight she'll say " I close my eyes Mummy" or "you close your eyes Mummy".

Oh and she's a chocoholic.

Not sure where she could have picked that up from.

Part 2.

India has been remarkably well, as always has the energy and movement of an atom on speed, and can't be still for a second.

Since we ripped out our whole backyard and re-landscaped, her health has greatly improved. There was obviously something she was quite allergic to back there. She's enjoying Grade 2 and has a lovely teacher this year that seems quite conscientious and willing to get to know her students. Indi's not involved in many other activities as yet but we'll look into joining some groups a little later to harness some of her energy.

She's reading well and loves to email. If you receive one by her, know it's a work of love. Even if it is only one sentence. She puts a fair bit of time and thought into it. It's really hard to climb the wall, do a triple somersault and stand on your head when you are typing with one finger, so it takes her a bit of time.

India's taken an interest in love lately...or should I say "lurrve''. She's never really been interested in lovey dovey stuff before, despite being in school with girls who talk princesses and princes, boyfriends and such things. But she read Esta's library book the other day "Where Willy went" to Esta, it had them in hysterics. lol.

At the library, I thought Willy was a Worm. Turns out Willy is a Sperm! And I don't need to tell you where Willy went, do I? Ask India if you want to know. I think she is now the most well informed 7yo in town, which I don't thinks is entirely a bad thing considering some of the things she's come home and told me about discussions at school. (No, Indi, you don't get pregnant by kissing any male appendage, and I'm pretty sure that it wasn't on the news even if N says that is was.)

True to Indi form we've had to have long discussions about it all. Not something new, as we've done that all before due to her endless questions when I was pregnant with Esta. But this time she wanted more physical, graphic detail of the male/female coupling. Of course, we discussed this rather maturely and matter-of-fact, with only the odd gross out noise from India, while I'm keeping a straight face but laughing hysterically on the inside (thank you nursing experience) and MM is hiding in the other room going red in the face with embarrassment. It's not so much that she wants to know this stuff; it's her intense and direct questions that reach beyond her age and can be rather difficult to answer without a full degree in whatever the topic is at the time.

Anyway, NOW she wants to go to a Co-Ed school.

So she can fall in love!