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In no particular order, and since I keep forgetting to finish taking pictures of the house, some other stuff that we've been doing to distract you.

At the Perth Royal Show (which is extremely similar to the Ekka) FFM rode his first carousel. He's also had his first professional haircut and looks quite dashing but the responsible parent I try to be he's got his hat on to protect his fair little head so you really can't see it.

Here we are having a go feeding some baby farm animals. FFM's response to the animals was quite different than at the Ekka, he was excited and tried to pet all of them, chickens included. I think being able to stand and walk around and away from the animals makes a big difference.


Thanks to Katie for such nice photos! We trooped all through the Royal Show with the Edsalls who all survived and even came away with a few showbags.CRAYONS! Even though the package warns that crayons are meant for 24mos+ FFM is ready for them now. He's in a stage of mimicking everything we do and that includes taking any writing instrument he can reach and trying to scribble with it. After pulling a pen out of his hand for the umpteenth time in a day (he's tall and can reach amazing places, I'm not just leaving pens laying about) I decided there wasn't any reason he couldn't just scribble away with appropriate tools. ooooohhhhh, it was so quiet and he concentrated so much he even forgot to stick them in his mouth.

The weekend before the Perth Royal show we went to a huge park here in the city called King's Park. It's got botanical gardens, a treetop walk, huge wild open spaces, and even a couple of playgrounds. The day we went was so windy the treetop walk was closed, but the spring wildflowers were cooperating nicely and were being very showy. Travis got some nice shots.