Our weekend...

And by "our" I mean Jack & I, not O since he's worked all weekend...

So Saturday after a very slow start (I seem to have a lot of those lately) Jack & I headed out shopping. We just had to get a few groceries but as normally we were there for hours. I just can't stand the thought of missing out on some great bargain if I don't look in every shop. But we did actually get a few bargains including a Wall-E!!

It's the normal sized robotic one that's normally $88 but this one is faulty and dosn't respond to the remote so it was marked down to $15!! I think it's such a bargain. It does stuff, you push the buttons on the top and it moves around and talks so that's not bad for $63 off in my opinion. Owen is going to see if he can fix it but either way I'm happy and so is Jack.

Today, after another slow start, I did a bit of sorting. I'm trying to get my house into some semblence of order. We just have so much crap!! I've started a list of chores for both O and I to try to motivate us to get moving. LOL, let's see if it works this year. Jack and I also made some Limeaid! Our lime tree has quite alot of fruit coming on it so I thought I'd get in early and try out a recipe I'd seen a few weeks ago, it's just made from a cup of lime juice, a cup of sugar syrup and water. It's quite nice, just like a good quality lime cordial really. How good do our limes look and they smell just devine.Anyway, after pottering around the house my Mum came over and we did some craft stuff with Jack, Mum always brings over an activity for him to do. We headed out to the Kershaw Gardens along with the scooter for a bit of a walk and play.

There's a section of the creek just near the end of out street that Jack always stops at to throw rocks of "fish" (ie. dunk a stick in the water) and there are 3 nests with metres of each other. One is a little twiggy willy wagtail nest which the babies have now left, then there is a mud peewee nest and then hanging of the same tree is this sunbird nest. I was taking photos of the nest when the mumma bird came in to feed her babies. I was probably only about 1.5 metres away, how cool is that!!

We saw quite a few different critters today actually. These little frogs/toads? are everywhere at the edge of the creek. Even if they do turn out to be fat ugly toads at this size they are still cute, but I do actually think they are a frog, nope just googled it and I think they're toads. We also saw a quite large lizard, a couple of snakes (ewwwwwww, gross)and tons of dragonflies of all different colours. Heaps of the tiger stiped ones, some blue, a yellow and black, bright red, they were everywhere. I really like dragonflies, they are unusual looking insects.And just to balance out all the fauna photos, some flora. I'm not really a fan of yellow flowers but these cassia fistula fowers are just so lovely.And now for a fix of Jack...

Jack walking along the garden edgeing. He likes balancing. This was just before he stuck up a conversation with a stranger about dogs. He's been doing that a lot lately, telling people he has two gorgeous doggies at home, Poppy and Poo Poo (Bella's nickname). Note to self: work on stranger danger.Just looking cute on the swing. Fake smile avoiding camera, just the usual.And a real smile, cheeky little bugger. He fell off the swing (from low, no injuries) and thought it was hilarious so then of course he had to do it another 15 times. 3.5, what a fun age.We had taken the kite with us since there's been a bit of a breeze around today but Jack didn't have much luck. I got it flying for a little bit and he had it up in the air a couple of times too.Instead of running away from the kite to get it to lift off he kept running towards it or around in circles that didn't give the kite a chance to lift. He had fun though.And Grandma putting his shoes back on before heading off home.

That's it in a nutshell folks. I think I'm going to go and watch a movie. Speaking of which, we saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons, what a lovely film that is. I loved it.(take some tissues with you)

Ciao