5 month old

Baby girl is 5 months old today! She is such a joy and delight to us!

She had cereal for lunch again and enjoyed as before.

Matt is out cutting trees for the deck roof – I am sitting out here right now enjoying the warm weather that August is bringing us at the moment – it seems a bit too soon to be so warm perhaps we will get a last cold spell before summer really hits. I am looking down from the front of the house at the newest vegetable garden that is going in. the one that we have is too far from the house for water to get too easily until it rains and also it is too far from the house to keep an eye on it from baboons and monkeys. Austen has put a fence around it to keep the dogs out and seeds are going in as I write. I am looking forward to being able to just pop down the hill to collect fresh veg soon enough. Plus with having a baby around who needs fresh veg it will be great!  

I return

Boy it has been a few months since I wrote. Our baby girl is 5 months this Thursday, incredible! She is doing so well and just so adorable. In the last few weeks she has discovered her toes (they were even in her mouth today), she has discovered she can shout when she needs something, this hilarious hoarse shout that often ends with her coughing, and she has discovered food, other than milk from mom. She chewed on her first chicken bone last weekend and today she had her first meal of rice cereal. We wanted to keep her going til 6 months just on breast milk but she seems to wake every 3 hours (remember how I told you all to enjoy sleep – well I mean it even more now!) So today I sat her in a Bumbo seat which she enjoyed as she could drum her hands on the little table joined to it, and tested to see how she would react to the cereal. All the books say your baby may not enjoy it at first and will probably spit it out, but this young lady couldn’t seem to get enough of it. I am so grateful to the Lord for that as I imagined it would be quite a task.
Matt has built a deck out the front of the house. It was planned long ago and has finally started taking shape. There is a roof still to come, but already it is a spot we are drawn to at the end of the day to watch the sunset. I can see many a happy moment happening out there. Daniella was out there on her doughnut this afternoon watching the wind in the leaves.

At the time of me writing this Daniella is fast asleep and Matt has just arrived back from a day of church meeting and golf – his newest hobby that he is enjoying very much. The sweet little golf course in Juliasdale offers a round of golf that gets him the practice he needs!

oh i nearly forgot...there are hyenas around here at the moment. We haven't seen or heard them but they have been heard at night from the shade house and they have taken a few livestock in the area. Quite exciting to think we have such wildlife around our home!!!