June 20, 2011 by Michelle
How come I have never seen this before? Apparently all the rage a few years ago, a recipe for no knead bread had done the rounds in blogland.
The recipe looks so simple and I have been wanting to try and make bread for AGES! Stuff the carbs, this recipe looks so good I just want to eat the bread now! Plus the storytelling is amazing – and you definitely have to scroll down to the bottom and read the last bit of the post 
from Steamy Kitchen – no knead bread recipe – so simple, even a 4 year could do it!
Once I found that one, I went searching for more. This site great versions of this recipe – from the original, to the 1 hour bread to the no knead bread in a hurry!
From the Kitchn – No knead bread in a hurry
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June 15, 2011 by Michelle
Money is tight so anything that I can get that entertains Boo and is free is great! I've been wanting to try and improve her sense of colours for a while. We have been through a number of "colour" phases where everything that week was yellow, and then pink and then green!
They even had different colour themes at her daycare but Boo was still insistent that everything was a particular colour even though it definitely wasn't.
So when we went to Bunnings recently and I saw the paint sample wall it immediately caught my eye. I took a variety of colours (2 of each) and bingo – a free colour matching game! We came home and I mixed up all the cards and showed Boo how to match the colours together. She did it in no time but could I get her to name the colours by herself – no way!
I think we might be playing this game for a while
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June 10, 2011 by Michelle
… This Saturday we are going to the osteopath again for Boo's 3rd appointment. I can't wait to see what changes are in store for Boo. She has had a remarkable turn around in terms of her language skills and I'm sure even more is to come with this next appointment.
Plus her speech therapy with the speech pathologist is on next Friday so that will be interesting as well. It was initially going to be a one-on-one but a few more kids are coming to the session which will be good as I can then see how Boo is progressing in comparison. All the kids are meant to be at the same speech level so I can't wait to see how it all pans out.
She is doing so well – i'm so proud of her! Our little acorn is blossoming into a beautiful tree! 
from the Extent of Science
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June 7, 2011 by Michelle
If you have been looking into the Montessori method, you have probably found what I have – and that is Montessori materials can be extremely expensive! I am still to decide whether we cave in buy some of the Montessori materials, but at this stage, I am holding out. However, I have found that thrift shops/secondhand shops are the best places to find a few starter pieces on the cheap,
Near me is a plethora of thrift stores (says something about the area I'm in!) and I have taken to visiting these to see what little trinkets I can find that is of use. I am also conscious of not getting too much stuff as we are moving soon and the less we need to cart to the new place the better!
Here is an absolute bargain that I picked up this week:
These cost me a grand $2.50!
Now the only problem is that I have become a thrift shop addict! Stop me now!
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June 2, 2011 by Michelle
We were at the Osteopath again on Saturday for our second appointment. I didn't harbour any great hopes for the first session, especially after Anna said that the first sessions it was mainly an assessment and little work was done. This session was just over 1/2 hour, so a lot shorter, but as it was purely working on Boo, I was hoping that we would see results. And did we? Well, you will have to keep reading
Interestingly, as Anna started working on Kaitlyn's jaw area she asked whether she had twisted her neck in anyway. My husband and I both thought about it for a while and it did strike us that Kaitlyn feel down the slide last Sunday (so after the first appointment with Anna). And the way that she fell was that she twisted her head halfway down the slide and ended up with a bruise and reddness in her cheek. So needless to say, we were both very impressed!
So after about a 1/2 hour session (which thankfully did not last much more as Boo was struggling to keep still at the end), we left the centre and spent a wonderful hour in Fremantle (yay for sunny Perth weather!).
Over the last few days we have been keeping an eagle eye on Boo's progress and I am glad to say that we have noticed a real marked improvement in her speech! (little dance ).
Not only is she copying and saying more new words, we have even moved onto a few three word sentences! My husband in particular has really noticed it, which is, in itself, a HUGE surprise. So we are completely over the moon and would wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone else that is thinking about going to an osteopath for their child's speech development.
Our next appointment is in another 2 weeks as Anna is going to Melbourne for her PHD so will let you know how that goes! Am super excited and really glad that we did it
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