A new look

I had been promising Ella I would paint her bedroom every holidays all year. I painted Kate's last Christmas and then Ella has waited patiently ever since.

So these school hols were time to just get on with it! At the last minute before buying the purple paint, she decided to swap bedrooms and have the spare room, even though it is smaller.

So here it is. Now I have a bigger spare room to iron/fold washing/scrap/whatever else takes my fancy!

I have some gorgeous prints of fairies/mermaids etc on layby. They should finish off the walss just nicely.

before: the girls start clearing the room out!

Nude Lunches

I discovered these from my friend Libby, and as I'm always on the look out for little containers for the girls for snacks, plus they needed new lunch boxes I thought these were perfect.




The girls had a wee practice run with them last night and enjoyed filling them up with all sorts of goodies.







We try not to use any gladwrap etc in our lunchboxes, but everynow and then we have to as we don't have the right size or shape container for something. I am hoping these will help. Our school is hoping next year to steer towards a waste-free environment by cutting out all the prepackaging that unfortunately most people tend to use in making lunches. They held a day in Term 3 where this was put into practise. My girls were two of the few who succeeded.

We got the snack cups too which hold 3 individual snacks. All we need now is the cooler bags (Woolworths didn't have any) and then they are all set.

You can read more about it here plus get lots of great ideas for snacks and lunches!

Ice Skating

Well after I finished work today we made the decision to take the girls ice skating. Kate said she felt upto it, although I'm betting maybe she didn't really, but she tried very hard to be better.
The session went for 2 hrs, but by the time we got there, nearly one hour was already up, which suited us fine as I didn't want Kate getting too cold for too long. Plus it was plenty long enough for Jonah, for Ruby who needed alot of help, and for Amie who had to keep stopping to feed Jonah. Ella was in her element and after going around once holding onto the sides, she took off like she had been doing it forever. Kate was pretty cold and wet afterwards, so we headed to the cafe for hotdogs and hot chocolates. We will definitley have to go again.

Poor Kate

Kate is not well at all. She has a strep throat which is causing her to cough and cough and cough some more. All day and all night until she vomits. She's on AB's which have stomped the fever out, pretty soon we are hopeful that the other symptons will subside. She also has either Swine Flu or a croup type virus that is going around at present. It's nearly the end of the school holidays. We have two things left on the list the kids wish to do. Swimming and Ice Skating. This afternoon is the only day we can go skating as Ruby goes to her grandparents tonight for the weekend. Dancing starts back tomorrow and they can't afford to miss any more classes with a concert coming up! School swimming lessons start on Tuesday, in term 4. Get well Kate, you poor poppet!

Telethon 2009

Amie & I packed the kids in the car today and headed to the Perth Convention Centre to the Telethon kids carnival.

Balloons are always a favourite, by the end of the day they had collected a whole lot more- yellow, green and red ones too.

Kate & Ella loved rolling in these huge balls!

Jonah was a very good wee boy!

Face painting is a must!

Finally a shot (or two) of the fabulous four!!!

Bunny Rabbit Ella giving Jonah a cuddle

Kate having a slide!

They also enjoyed many free activities- colouring-in, play doh, lots of ball games, their was dancing and Fat Cat show but we managed to miss all this! Lunch was expensive (thanks Amie!) and the car parking cost outrageous!!! Never mind, the kids had a fun day out.

Picnic in the Park

We packed up a picnic today and headed over near our old house to one of our favourite parks. It was really busy being school holidays, plus there was a birthday party going on too. The kids had a great time playing on the playground, riding their bikes and playing soccer. Ella is still fascinated with Jonah and spent a great deal of the afternoon pushing him around on the grass. The pram is very easy for her to push, now she just needs to grow a bit taller to see where she is going!!









Ruby's favourite thing to do was playing soccer - she could run much longer than any of us, and was always disappointed when we wanted to sit and rest. Hopefully she'll sleep well tonight.





Kate spun around on a spinning thing at the playground until she nearly made herself sick. This is not unusual for her to do this. Jonah was a good wee boy and slept most of the time!

Sunday in the Sun

A busy day today, on such a beautiful spring day! Some gardening, the girls filled up the paddling pool to cool off, we went to a birthday party after lunch. On the way home we stopped off and bought some plants for the garden - strawberries, celery, lettuce, parsley and fairy flowers! The girls had fun planting them.

Moscow Circus

We kicked off the school holidays today with an outing to see the famous Moscow Circus while it was in town. It was the first time Kate & Ella have been to a circus, so it was a huge hit. Ella got a bit bored near the end (and couldn't stop yawning!) but apart from that the girls sat wide-eyed, amazed at the skill and magic! We weren't allowed to photograph during the performances, so the only inside shots are the actors at the very end of the show! The weather was gorgeous today too - finally.

We stopped off at the garden centre on the way home and got a Jasmine for the front garden. It smells beautiful.


We finished off the day with a trip to our local park. The girls rode their bikes and I walked. Phil stayed behind to cook tea (omelettes - yummy!)

After dinner we watched Mrs Doubtfire on telly, complete with popcorn.

Phil meets Jonah

Finally! Here they both are together. Jonah is 2 weeks, 6 days old. :)

School Excursion

I went along with Kate's class today up in the hills to Mundaring to visit the Perth Hills National Park Centre. We learnt lots about the Aborigines - how they hunted, the huts they made to camp in, all about tribes and lots of other fascinating stuff. The weather, although looking like rain which never eventuated, was so so so cold. Cold to the bone cold. Not pleasant at all. But we muddled through and everyone had a great day. I only managed to get a few photos before the batteries went flat on the camera, so unfortunately I didn't get any of the face painting, and other cool activities.

Day 12 with Jonah