There has been a fair bit of bread around this house in the last few days thanks to my belated mother's day/credit card point redeeming purchase of a breadmaker. I've been looking into it for quite a while so I'm over the moon to finally be able to bake my own bread with the greatest of ease. I'd love to have a photo to show you some of my efforts but they keep getting gobbled up. It probably isn't conducive to a low carb diet (not that pregnant ladies should be holding out on carbs, or chocolate, or danish, or brownies...) but it fits in well with my gradual efforts to try to make more things at home in an effort to limit the amount of processed foods we consume - which was fairly limited anyway. So far I'm making yoghurt each week (truly yummo), now bread and I've tried muesli bars with limited success but continued enthusiasm. Next on the list is to bottle some delicious pasta sauces using up the overwhelming supply of basil and oregano I have growing in the herb garden. Luckily for me I have time on my side and in just a matter of weeks I will have even more on my hands. Stay tuned for more Suzie Homemaker efforts!
It was while shopping for our breadmaker that Nick picked up the toy catalogue at Myer to distract Ollie who was getting a bit bored in his pram. It certainly did the trick with Obear staring intently at it for the rest of our shopping trip. It even came home with us and is still being seriously studied by the little dude. He keeps talking about the "magazine" we bought him at the shops. Here is Ollie and Nick poring over it together on the weekend.
My favourite loaf of bread so far (chocolate and nut bread - yummo) came with us for our lovely Sunday outing - a surprise visit to celebrate Sam's birthday with a lovely picnic in her backyard. It was an absolutely beautiful day which caused us to comment that it isn't really until/unless you have little people that you embrace the great outdoors and find yourselves having lots of lovely picnics while the little people tear around like hooligans. Probably because pre-kids you are still laying hungover in your bed blissfully sleeping past 6am. Ah the good old days.
Fortunately for all of us, Sam and Alan have a backyard that rivals most parks in terms of size and play equipment so Ollie, Audrey and Henry had a wonderful time climbing on the play fort, jumping on the new trampoline and strangely enough, collecting sticks! Nick set the littlies the task of picking up the oddly plentiful, but unexplained number of sticks on the ground. Ollie pushed them around in the wheelbarrow he commandeered and Audrey came up with the fantastic suggestion of using them to build a 'campfire' (where she came up with that suggestion is beyond us all - another example of American television rubbing off on our kids). Nick showed off his boy scout skills in construction of the fire and was pretty proud of his efforts until Ollie realised the only thing better than building a campfire is running over a campfire with your wheelbarrow. 
Thank goodness Nick wasn't too upset after the destruction and he was still able to chase around after the little people as I found it preferable to park my ever increasing girth on the picnic rug and sample the delights on offer. Chasing Ollie around is becoming a more difficult exercise every day now. I can't imagine all the shenanigans he will be able to get up to in ten weeks time when I can't even prise myself off the couch.
Another shining example of the difference between boys and girls? Audrey was blowing some beautiful big bubbles which Ollie also was enjoying but it wasn't long until the testosterone took over and it occurred to him that a more effective way of popping them was to get a great big cricket bat and smash each and every one of them. Hmmm.
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