3 years 9 months

Bronte is a kindy girl now, and we have noticed the big jump in maturity, language, and co-ordination. She can now bat the softball when it is thrown to her, has mastered her balance bike, and can skip beautifully (as her ballet teacher says). At kindy they are learning about Penguins and Inuits, and north and south poles, as well as how to drink from bubblers. She has grown about 3 cm in the last 5 weeks, and is now truly a size 4 with new shoes needed. At night she has started to want chapter books / longer stories to be continued the next night. And thank goodness for Bronte in the morning, helping me to get Zach ready for school, and myself ready for work.

Party time!

Zach didn't get to invite any of his friends to his 1st birthday party - only the 30 or so immediate relatives he has... He was the star of the party, as it should be, with the crowd waiting in eager anticipation as he stood and nearly, nearly took that first step. Again and again. He got lots of lovely blocks and trucks and a sean the sheep to play with, as well as some great clothes. Thanks everyone for an awesome day.

Cousins

Photo by Meg
Jewelry by Orange Sherbet

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