The Bell Family

As you can see from the “Blog” entry below, we were kept rather busy with a number of things over the weekend. But what really made our weekend was the fact that Laura started walking to us in the open and took a couple of steps by herself unaided.

As you might already be aware, Laura has been walking around the furniture and walls for some time now. But the last few days I have been trying very hard to get her to walk by herself. I found that if I leant her up against the wall and “coached” her to come to me she would stumble a few steps. At first she would lean forward, stumble a few steps and then I’d catch her and praise her. But with more practice runs, she was walking from the fireplace to the lounge, this would be around 2 meters (about 14 Laura steps .

But in the past couple of days, she has grown enough confidence that you can stand her up in the middle of a room and she will walk to you, as well as move from a piece of furniture or wall to somewhere else. It is amazing how fast the transition is and I wouldn’t be surprised if she is up and running around the house in a couple of weeks.

So she is definitely keeping us on our toes.

Will keep you posted again shortly.

Take it easy,
Jason.

Well, last Saturday we all got in and built the Bell’s Garden Shed. The shed was one of those “ABSCO Regent” Garden Sheds, that comes in a flat pack with a hundred or so screws and pot-rivets and a number of colour-bond sheets that some how goes together to make a shed.

With the awesome help from my in-laws, we managed to put together all the sheets to form the various panels for the shed, as some of the panels can be seen in the photo below.

After lunch my brother finished work and came around to give us a helping hand as well, which was greatly appreciated. After a few more hours things started to take shape and actually looked like a shed. Of course when things got shady, Laura also got in to the action and helped as well.

We got the bulk of the shed done on the Saturday only a few fixing points to the cement fitted and latches to mount, which was completed on the Sunday. I am very grateful for the help Dave and Kerrie (in-laws), Dan (Brother) and Chrissy provided and as they say, many hands make light work. Even though we were out in the Sun all day, it was gratifying to see it take shape and to have it actually finished.

You may have noticed that I wasn’t in any of the photo’s, well someone had to take them . But to prove that I actually did some work, here I am helping out.

Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of the shed in its completed form, but I am sure you will see some photo’s of it when some more work has been completed on the back yard.

Until then,
Take it easy,
Jason.