The last couple of Saturday mornings we have gone geocaching - spending 2-3 hours walking in the hot sun and picking up caches along the way. We found some new bush to explore off Leacroft Road today, and a few hours of caching in it found us having finished half of the tracks - lots of caches found and lots still to find! Abigail and Sarah liked finding the 'treasure'. We spotted 8 wallabies, 1 tiny tree frog, and a small goanna, as well as 4 horses with riders along the way - these are what the girls will most remember about the morning!

A little frog that Abigail found sitting in the pram (I thought it was a bit of bark!).

Overtaken by some horse riders

 

Helping each other through the bush :)

Our weekdays have been productively full. Various outings - playgroup, visiting Great-Grandma Sheehy, going to the library, and lots of shopping trips here and there. More deep cleaning and organising at home (I've even scrubbed the inside of the garage door :) ). Extra cooking and baking for the freezer - I want to have a good stock of meals frozen for when baby comes and my freezer is now quite full. I've also made a gluten free Christmas cake which is sitting in the cupboard 'marinating' in brandy; I hope it tastes as good as it smells and looks - bring on Christmas to find out! Gluten free muesli is something I've been wanting for breakfast lately, and finding the store brought ones as card-boardy as ever I've tried making my own using soaked and dehydrated sunflower seeds as the base (I have access to bulk seeds so have a few kilos of sunflower seeds in the cupboard); it is yet to be taste-tested (made yesterday).

Lots of ice-blocks (we mostly just freeze fruit juice in ice-block molds, but recently bought some frozen yoghurt ones for a treat) have been getting eaten as it has been pretty hot. We've moved our garden swing just outside the kitchen window so we can sit in the shade through the day. A good breeze has been blowing most days and so it is very pleasant to sit and rock - well, as pleasant as it can be with the girls climbing and hanging off the frame! Jon plans to build a monkey bar set with various climbing attachments for them to monkey on to their hearts' content (a trip to the necessary store on the Gold Coast today wasn't deemed wise with the GC 600 on); hopefully we can build it before bubs comes!