Photo a Day 2010

24 June 2010

I knew what I was going to take a photo of today when I bought the girls tickets to the Kids Premiere of Toy Story 3 here in Roxby.

They were having a spag bol + garlic bread dinner with icecream sundae for dessert all included :)  Here they are all dressed up for their night out.  Love how they organise these things at the cinema here, the girls went to an Alvin & the Chipmunks marathon back in January...they have them for grown ups too...they even had a 'blokes night' with beers & burgers & a couple of action movies recently LOL!

I was reflecting on how lucky they are to have each other...even though they aren't twins their relationship is that close.  They are the very best of friends, even if they don't actually recognise it...and so very lucky to always have each other there to do stuff like this with!

But...with my photo all planned out I ended up with more to share

Both of the girls got gr8 people awards today...they gove these out every few weeks or month...one person in each class gets them I think...and each one has a theme....obviously this one is for knowledge :)  I wonder if their teachers collaborated so that they got them at the same time LOL...needless to say I am very proud of them both!  (I took about 10 photos and there were none where they were both looking at the camera at the same time!)

But wait there's more...I couldn't really do today's photo without adding something about politics given it has, actually, been an historic day in Australia with Julia Gillard assuming the position of Australian Prime Minister

...so I pinched this one from news.com ....

When I was younger I remember being told that I could grow up I could be the first femal prime minister of Australia...well, clearly that's not going to happen now, I've been beaten to the punch line :D ... and, despite being a mining engineer, I am also a stay at home mum to 4 kids and far from being a feminist...but seeing Julia being inducted (or whatever the word is) by Quentin Bryce really did fill me with some pretty overwhelming emotion....so did seeing Kevin Rudd's speech, it was awful to see the poor man in tears and he did do some pretty great stuff for health and education....and I was kind of impressed by Julia....but, as I mentioned, I am a mining engineer....so it's not much of a revelation to say that I am violently opposed to the proposed mining super tax....don't care which party or who proposed it from where I stand it is so fundamentally wrong....so I stand, a woman conflicted with it all...I am looking forward to the next federal election to see how it all comes out in the wash...because voting for Tony Abbott as leader really is no choice option either!

I promise I won't have another political rant until the election...but I just felt I needed to add this, for the record :)

23 June 2010

Today the girls had a superhero dress up day at school.  Charlotte was Hermione Granger (in casuals because we don't have any robes) and minus her wand because it could not be found anywhere!  Lil was a fairy...don't you just love the sneakers....it was PE day and Lil is a shocker at keeping shoes on her feet so there were no petite fairy shoes for her today!

Sebastian was unwilling to let them have a photo on there own...and it had to be done quickly otherwise we would have been late ;)

I'm sure that Lil has worn her Verri Charmed necklace everyday since she was given it!

When we got back from school I tried to capture J's exceptional do she had going on this morning...she definitely had a visit from the hair fairy last night!

Isn't she an adorable doll...porridge snot face and all :)  And there isn't some vintagey action on these photos, our house is pale green so any photos taken out the front tend to take on a greeny blue tinge ;)

22 June 2010

This beautiful boy is going through such a positive stage at the moment...he says things are 'awesome, that's awesome' and 'I love it, I really love it'...and what makes it even better is that he says it about some of the most random things and he really really means it.  He really is so very cool!

21 June 2010

She's got a thing about hats at the moment...she likes to put them on then take off and so on and so forth...she's pretty partial to beanies too and has been known to squabble with the big bro for whatever he has perched on his head...on friday or saturday morning she picked up lauren's hat, the one sebastian is wearing in the photos with his glasses popped it on and toddled around with it...classically funny because it came all the way down to her nose...funny little sausage :)

20 June 2010

I got so many laughs from the kids today....

around 12 Maddy & Laine from next door came to see if the girls wanted to play...the 4 of them headed off to play in the dunes across the road...after a while they all came back to play at our house...Hartley, Maddy & Laine's little sister came too....the rest of the afternoon went something like this....

Charlotte and Laine took off back to his house to play where his mum discovered this....

They were both sitting at the bench and I asked Laine" is Charlotte your girlfriend" and they both at the same time answered "YES OF COURSE ...." 

They did cop a bit of teasing from Maddy & Lil at one point when they came back to our house for something.

Maddy & Lil were playing and then after a while they went back to play in the dunes and ride their bikes

J watched kept an eye on them out the window

Sebastian and Harts played and played and played...they played trains, then puzzles, then cars, then dress ups, then went to Hartley's house, and came back again and played dress ups some more...then they went outside and rather industriously set about peering over the fences

They used the ladder off an old 'fort' that we have, doubles as a slide on the other side

They did ask Steven for a bigger ladder but he wasn't forthcoming

The conversation was hilarious...as were the dynamics of the pair....Harts is a year older than Bastian  but she deferred to him being the boy and was a bit of a damsel in distress and he put on the cave man act...although he was actually quite chivalrous really....

I think the defining classic moment was when they had spent all this time climbing their 'ladder' at our back fence...we have 4 neighbours and Harts' house is in one corner...Sebastian made it to the top and peered over then climbed back down and helped Harts up...Steven saw it coming...he turned to me and predicted that the next line for her mouth would be 'That's not my house' and sure enough, 60 seconds later, that's exactly what she said :)  They then proceeded to try a few more spots until they found the right bit of fence LOL!

Man they were funny....and nobody fought...at all...all afternoon...it was awesome!

Love having great neighbours :)

19 June 2010

We finished off our week in Adelaide with a family breakfast at mum's this morning....complete with photography :)

Mum & Jonny with all 6 grandkids....kidding myself if I think that there is going to be a great one of these for a few years yet ;)

We left for home around 2...which is kind of late...but seeing as it's Saturday that kept Woody's stress level low when he was packing the car!

I had to laugh about J on the way home...she is soooo the 4th child....she had her own happy meal for dinner...which she repeatedly tipped on herself in the car...but it was handy when she needed a snack later, she just fished around in her seat until she found a french fry...she up ended her water bottle all over herself...and spent the last bit of the trip watching playschool on the DVD player

The thing that really makes me giggle is the way that she carries on if she doesn't get exactly the same as everyone else!  She can do everything herself thankyou very much!

After tucking the kids in I hurridly unpacked and sorted clothes so that I could crawl into bed with my (now nearly finished) book...love it when I have a great can't-put-down book!

18 June 2010

A(nother) trip to the zoo...Steven took the kids on Sunday while I was in Brissy...but I had BOTH cameras with me (how did he cope?)...good thing that we are zoo members!

Funi was fast asleep but Wang Wang was out parading around.  It is very cool to have the pandas at Adelaide zoo...they are such beautiful, fluid creatures.  Like most animals I would happily sit and watch them for ages!

Sebastian's favourites were the Orangutans...they came very close to check us out...presumably because of the baby 'ranga we had with us ;)  on Sunday his favourites had been the mop-mop-monkeys....apparently they (the Siamung) had been in full voice then!  We saw plenty of animals out and active which is always cool....Charlotte even attempted a bit of parseltounge in the reptile house.

Friday night we had a 'no kids' dinner with 2 of my oldest and bestest friends

We tried out the Bombay Bicycle Club...I'd heard lots of good things...the food was definitely good but I was expecting the atmosphere to be a bit more 'special'....one way or another we had a great night...lots of talking and laughing...I always have fun when I spend time with these girls :)

17 April 2010

Sebastian and Delilah had a playdate at Mum's this afternoon....talk about cute :)

It was also Sebastian's turn to hop into Aunty Jess' Hairdresser chair for a cut!

Can you tell I only have the one boy?....I'm not precious about those blonde curls one little bit!

16 June 2010

Time to come home....we were welcomed back to (a very cold) Adelaide by this

I think that they missed me?

They actually had a great time....hanging out with Daddy....and so did he :)

(see those pink sunglasses again!!)

15 June 2010

This morning Lauren and I had a relaxed (and very yummy) breakfast at southbank followed by a walk across the river to the Queen Street Mall...where we browsed Queen's Plaza....mmm...one of my favourite places to window shop....we did a lap of Tiffany & ooh'ed & ahh'ed at Alannah Hill, I actually bought some things in Peter Alexander, tried on new sunnies, drooled at some boots in Nine West that I adore, but with 3 inch heels I'm kidding myself that I would ever wear them and finished with a coffee and treat at Bay Swiss.

When I used to travel to Brissy for work I would always stay at the Sofitel...the plane landed in Brissy Airport at 2.30 and I'd be shopping by 3.30....it's amazing what you can achieve in 2 hours when you're on a mission :)

Anyway I digress...I had seen on a blog somewhere about all the knitted things around brisbane at the moment so I squealed a bit when I saw the big balls of wool and little tree socks at the river end of queen's plaza

I laughed when Lauren decided she did want to check out the casino after all and tried to march on in...in rubber thongs...LOL :)

We followed this up with a scrummy lunch in Rosalie then on to Alana's

We went for a little walk around Toowong where Alana lives...whenever I go there I want to move in yesterday!  Alana pointed out a delightful new fabric shop peppermint stitches....more squealing and a hurried walk back home to grab wallets and then back to purchase some fabric...more Sandi Henderson and some Cosmo Cricket Girl Friday....I couldn't resist...I mean they have turned one of my favourite ever paper lines into fabric...yum!  I also bought 2 patterns and fabric for 2 dresses for me from the Momo Freebird range :)  The shop is seriously amazing...it was very hard to choose what to get...but I endured ;)