More images of the day

First day of school

It was delayed by a day due to the storms, but finally - the first day of school. Bronte was very reluctant to get into her uniform, and luckily her teacher identified her as a child who needed a hand hold, but when I picked her up she excitedly said "I wish I could go to school for ever and ever!"

Flood 2013

The Brisbane river at Chelmer - 2 days before the peak

Our local creek: it made it up to just below the 2 metre mark. The people on the other side were stranded for a few days. We lost our power for 32 hours, and some minor dents in the roof from falling branches. We all know in Brisbane how lucky we were this time, and our thoughts are with Bunderberg.

Home-grown version of the floods

Grandads: good for circus tricks and snap

among other things of course

Waiting for the cyclone

No pavlova or lamingtons this Australia day - we were all on cyclone watch.

Fashion shoot at the creek

Yummy dough

A while ago Kristina gave Bronte some yummy dough. With Kristina's schedule, it was just too hard to co-ordinate a time for her to come and do the activity with the kids, so we cracked it open. It says "shape it, bake it, eat it". Well, the order of events was more like "mix it, eat it, spill it". The shapes never got beyond the final picture with Zach - i.e. a sticky mass on the table and floor. No lions here. 

Cupcakes in style

I took the week off work to hang out with my girl before she started school. We saw a movie (Tinkerbell), did lots of drawings, and went to the speciality cupcake shop with Will.

I did it!

Zach is up to that phase of insisting on doing everything himself. This is him dressing himself: "Mum - I did it!"