Let's Party!

We had Ella's sixth birthday party today at Jungle Gym It's such a wonderful place to wear the kids out. The jumped and swung and ran and climbed solidly for a hour before heading to the party room for food, drink and cake!!! After that a few games in the party room and then home for some dinner (which they hardly ate) a shower and flopped into bed, utterly exhausted. Ella was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow!

Student of the Week

Ella was awarded student of the week for her class today. She is the second class member to get it for the year, and the first girl! She gets to do all the important jobs like ringing the bell, being the leader when walking out of the classroom, choosing class members for jobs and other bits and pieces.

We are so proud of you!

21 Years Ago ...

we welcomed our first daughter into the World
2:23pm on a hot Monday afternoon in February (yes Ella was exactly the same!)
7lb 8oz
Hastings, New Zealand
lots of dark hair

Happy 21st birthday Amie, we are so proud of you!
We love you
xxx

Bargain of the week

Gorgeous raincoat for gorgeous four year old
Milkshake Brand
Brand new
Op Shop
$3.99

Six Years Ago ...

Our third Princess was born,

2:23pm on a hot Monday afternoon in February
7lb 4.5oz
Bentley, Western Australia
lots of dark hair, just like her big sisters

Ella Charlotte 2hrs old

six years old

We love you sweetheart, have lots of fun being 6!!!
xxxxxx

A few pics from afternoon tea ~~ party to follow in a couple of weeks!

Bushfire Tragedy

Australia is in mourning. So far 108 lives have been lost, 750 homes destroyed. You can read more about it here

Please pray for all those who are suffering .

Moving Day!

No! Not me, thank goodness!

Amie & Ruby are moving out to their own place.

It's actually the second time they have left, however last time they moved in with a friend of Amie's. Needless to say, they were back six weeks later!

I'm sure it will be a much more positive experience this time around.

Ella is looking forward to sleep overs - she will miss Ruby immensely!

No doubt we will still see them almost everyday. They are only a fifteen minute car ride away.

Anyway better get back to it.

Amie has to work a ten hour day today, Ruby is at Grandma's for the weekend, Phil is away, so it's mostly me, and then Amie's partner and his mate will arrive after they finish work today to do the heavy stuff.

Fond Memories

Little Jenny Wren posted on her blog about Golden Books, which bought back many happy memories. I had heaps as a child, but sadly I haven't got any from my own childhood. The ones that were Amie's (and now the younger girls) came from school galas and friends.

Kate decided to dig out what we had (she was excited we had some the same!)

Baby Dear was one of Amie's favourites when she was a small girl.

I remember a friend giving it to me for her and she loved it fondly

We used to read it over and over and over





She would have loved a Baby Dear, all her own

I'm going to keep an eye out now for more

And they're off ....

... they were all so excited!



Kate was excited to get back to school and her friends and move over to the Year Three and Four area. She has two teachers, I only met one this morning and she seemed lovely. They were straight into their work, no gently breaking them anymore :)



After dropping Kate to class and settling her in, we rushed to Ella's Year One class. Kate used to be in the same class in Year One with the same two teachers so Ella felt right at home. She's sitting next another little blondie with glasses. I hope they will be good friends. Year One seems so grown up!

From there I took Ruby to Kindy. Once again the teacher is familiar as it was Kate's Kindy teacher. (Ella had a different one) Ruby was very brave and after we did a couple of puzzles, she gave me a kiss goodbye and I left.

She had a fab time and happily chatted about her morning when I picked her up (they have half days to start) She got a certificate and she is very proud.