JUNE 2021 - HELLO DEAR EMILY

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You were super proud when you managed to put Alex to sleep on your lap. 
Good practise for when you are a mother one day!
Hello my darling girl,

You are becoming Mommy's little helper when Sharon leaves your baby cousin with you every second week for two days.

You still manage to do your school work and help Mom with Alex.  

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Its been very cold so I found a pink Unicorn microwave heating pad for your bed. 
I also bought a blue bunny heating pad for Alex

                        

Sometimes even Mark comes out of his office to say hello to the little Dude!


You had assessments again this month and so far you've done very well - getting 81% for your geography assessment.  Well done!  Your lowest mark was 59% for Afrkiaans.  I would've been happy with those marks when I was your age ♥



You came for a visit on 20 June and I was able to get this photo of you and Alex on the carpet.  His whole body is the same length as your torso!

After Greg and Sharon had left you and I decided to do some dancing in the lounge.  We stumbled over each other's feet and crash-landed onto the couch!  You hurt your arm and I hurt my knee when I fell on the ground.  Thankfully neither of us broke or cracked anything but you had a bruise for a a few days.



Your parents think that Ruby is coming on heat.  I suggested she buy some puppy nappies for her but she decided to make her a pair of pull on panties out of an old pair of hers, with a pad inside!  Poor Ruby did look a bit odd with the bulging nappy pants and her tail sticking out the back!




COVID UPDATE

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, continues the monitoring and surveillance of COVID-19 in order to inform the public health response.

Today the institute reports 13,347 new COVID-19 cases that have been identified in South Africa, which brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 1,954,466.  This increase represents a 26.2 % positivity rate.  A further 226 COVID-19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 60,264 to date. For more detailed information, visit the GIS Dashboard.

 13,062,835 tests have been conducted in both public and private sectors 

 

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