Practicing, practicing...

The washing basket at Nannas is very wobbly, and offers minimal support, so I am thinking that walking is just around the corner...

GNX - this is for you - progress on the lemon tree

Lone pine fun

First visit back to Lone pine in a long while - Zach is now old enough to chase kangaroos.

I always have kangaroo shots - time for a koala.


They also have a new attraction where you can mine for "jewels". Unfortunately, we may have tipped all our loot into the rushing stream on the first attempt, but with some digging around the drain, we managed to salvage enough previous metal.

Morning moments

Bronte loves practicing her letters, particularly with her rainbow multicoloured pen. Zach is currently into putting things into things, or opening and getting out things. Such as cupboards. This morning, they were doing their favourite things simultaneously.

Put that foot down!

Nanna has a saying "put that foot down!" and when Zach is being cheeky, he lifts his foot up and waits for us to put on our best Nanna voice.

Revisiting ballet class

A year ago we tried Bronte at ballet class, but she was too shy. Not so today! We took her back to the same class, and she performed all the moves with a grace her mother has never had. I was so super proud of her.

Matching stripes

Life wasn't quite right until Zach got to sit on Nanna's lap while she sang Humpty Dumpty.

The two of us

Standing! well, nearly

Zach is getting better and better at standing - particularly if he is distracted and doesn't realise he is doing it. If you ask him to stand, he tries to perform some sort of jolly-jumper move.

A blur of tutu pink

Having two pink tutus and two ribbons is not excessive, it is necessary to enable proper mamma mia dancing.

Sleepover!

What started as an afternoon play with Will turned into Bronte's first ever sleepover! She has been asking for one for a while, but skeptics that we are, we thought we would need to rescue her at 10pm or so. But no, she ate all her dinner, drank her milk, and after a very brief cuddle, slept through the night. We are so super proud, and it leads to the question - who next?