Tea party

Zach made a lovely tea party this afternoon - feeding Sam (the baby doll) and mum lot of tea with milk and a biscuit.

Present picking

The K&K catelogue has been studies intensely. Zach wants a new baby doll - even though we have several in the house. Bronte wants a tinkerbell outfit and a princess tent. Their mother wants neither of those things bought for them for Christmas presents please!

Prep experience day

With nervous waves and a tear in the eye, I gathered with the other parents to see Bronte off for her Prep experience morning. As anticipated, she was fairly shy at the start, needing the guideance of a teacher's hand. But hey - she still needs a teacher's hand at kindy every morning, so that was expected. What was wonderful to see was the big smile on her face as she came back from the 2-hour experience. And - she completed the task of the day (draw a picture and write your name). Participating in activities has been a bit of an issue at kindy lately - so Bronte doing this in a strange environment was very exciting.

Bronte is behind the mums in the top photo, and behind other kids in the bottom. But in summary - sad and shy in top picture, happy and excited in bottom!

Check out this cake!

It was Connor's birthday this weekend. Connor is one of those kids that knows every make and model of every car. So - appropriately, it was a car cake - and what a cake it was! Formal, planned games were abandoned as the kids were having just too much fun.

Big Sky 12

Tony and I help to run the Big Sky tournament. Now in its 4th year, it helps raise funds for our friends in their battle with motor neuron disease. This year, for the first time, it was a wet one. But - luckily Henry was there to play with, and mud was there to be stomped on. Big thanks to Grandma and Granddad for babysitting and allowing us to play. The kids were amazing - with hard playing from 7:30am till 9pm, with only a 50 minute sleep (for Zach) in the middle.

Cousins at play

A hectic day of driving this Friday - with a fair amount of fun in between. While Tony and I were at the test cricket, Aunty Catriona looked after B & Z - getting them to feed the chickens and the guinea pigs. After some round-a-bout trips (including picking me up, going to Nanna's, going to the wrong fields), we made our way out to watch cousin Annika be a softball star - playing pitcher, catcher, and doing a sacrifice hit. I think I chose wisely having Fridays off - I loved going and supporting the school sport.

This photo is very exciting, because it is the first time that Bronte self-swung! Finally, the art of legs up, legs down. A necessary skill for a big sister.

Back pat

Tonight Zach yelled out "Back pat Dadda!" Then rolled over onto his tummy, propped his bottom in the air, and pulled down his shirt for a back tickle. Tony has no one but himself to blame as role model for this effort.


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A quick update

A certain 20mth old dropped the MacBook (still getting fixed) and his parents left the camera at the coffee farm so blogging and photos has taken a slight pause. But stay tuned as there are some excellent ballet moves - by Zach - whose latest word is "tutu".


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Camping - carool style

This weekend we were supposed to be camping at Brunswick Heads with Ava, Finn and Melissa. However, the campsite was not in the best interest of us relaxing - with a 2.5m drop into the Brunswick river, and the pacific motorway in sight. So - we headed back for a spot of camping at Carool. Far more civilised. And with Zach having night terrors - I am fairly sure all the campers at Brunswick were happy we were not there either.

The pose

Bronte is funny about photos. In general - she is fine with them. For the school photos, she freaks out and refuses to take part until several deals have been struck. But then sometimes, she asks to have her photo taken (often when she thinks the light is nice). In this case, this is generally the pose she strikes - head resting on hands.