well life as we knew it is officially over, the small boy is mobile. He has been almost there for a few weeks but today the lure of the fridge magnets led him to crawl into the kitchen, from where he proceeded to open the pantry and climb on the dishwasher door...I guess we are putting up the gate and baby proofing this weekend. His crawl is still a little like flipper but I'm sure he will perfect staying up on his knees soon. I'm sure it's because yesterday I commented that it would be nice if he held off crawling one more week until we visited his great grandmother.
Miss Isabella attended her first greenpeace volunteer meeting tonight, this is the girl who has wanted to work for greenpeace since she was 5yrs old and donates her pocket money to greenpeace and unicef every month. She has been busy the last year doing lots of online stuff, emails to parliament, signing petitions but tonight she actually went to her first meeting. By the look on her face when we walked in you would have thought she had won the lotto, when I came back to get her 2hrs later she was stuffing envelopes with a group, listening to a report on climate change and wasn't nearly ready to come home as she still needed a tour of the offices, to be set up with the teenage group here and to get some info on bottom trawling for her school project. I am so proud of her, the first thing the co-ordinator said when I walked back in was 'she is amazing'. I guess she takes after her gran and her mum as alot of my teenage years were spent at protest rallies, joining action groups at school and being involved in greenpeace issues.
