Great start to March with this awesome certificate for Lachie, this is the bit that didn't fit on the front!
Cooper getting ready for bed...loving four independent kids!
Cooper made this plane at Bubbles
With Cooper at kindy two days a week, I needed a project, and the girls' wanted a reading chair...watch this space
One project's not enough though...so I designed this fundraiser for school, and guess who's running it! No better way to meet people! I also spend a day a week there helping out the Principal mainly with design and display jobs...loved photographing the Year 6 leaders on my first day! And I'll be coaching/umpiring the Lily's Year 4 netball team soon!
Yeah, I had a birthday in there somewhere...actually, the whole of Taranaki got a day off to celebrate with me, haha! We're at Waverly, Cave Beach
Eden (in cast # four!) desperate to copy Lily!
Oh well, only another week to go...
Cave Beach
Eden finds rainbows everywhere!
Same rainbow, different camera setting
Sunset walk over Hickford Park, along the coastal track, through Bell Block and return via the other corner of Hickford Park (our usual evening walk)
Another rainbow, the day before St Patrick's Day...the only half hour of rain that day was in the middle of our walk!
Eden with cast on leg AND one on arm for suspected broken hand (different incident), just after this she was running with Honey and ran straight into a metal pole at cheek height...thankfully that's a more flexible bone as I was NOT going back to ED for the third day in a row! Plenty of ice but still a bruised cheek and massive black eye followed...that's "our" skatepark in the background
Lily and Honey
Views of the mountain wherever we go (including our dining room, deck and lounge!)
Not too wet, but slightly too hyped for bed!
Who let Lachie drive?!?!
Eden didn't get to dance the first NP competition of the year with her casts coming off during the week before, but it was fun watching Lily and all her new friends! Lachie missed it and we missed his cricket game, but he had fun with Sam at his Lego house!
Some medals...and at school assembly, the kids are invited to share any sporting or cultural awards they have earned...so nice to be acknowledged - and to have a dancing-fan as a Principal! (He doesn't dance, but his wife's a dance teacher)
And with NO casts anymore, we discovered we live a 15 minute bush walk from a gorgeous beach!!!
Would be so easy to caption this!
Eden's drawing for Morgan (the cuts are meant to be there btw)
Lily was so lucky to be part of Morgan's dance group doing an Irish performance for the NZ Motor Home Assn convention over Easter...and Biddy was proud too! Paula made gorgeous outfits (shame I forgot to photograph them up close) and I got to do the hairpieces (last minute!)...wee crowns if you can't see...might have to invest in a straightener as Lily initially freaked at having to have her hair ironed!
Was VERY hard to photograph (through glass, from down the back...high security for this convention!)...as you would guess, Lily's the little one in the middle :) There's seven girls in her dance here; 13 girls (I think) altogether
First sleep in in months on Good Friday, followed by the Truck Show convoy at 9.30 Saturday morning! (Kids in charge of cameras and iPods!). Massive truck show/Child Cancer fundraiser at the end of our street, trucks parading through town first, honking all the way down the street (pity for the young guys next door who's party went very late!)...had to go for a walk with hundreds of other people to see at least a hundred huge trucks and one really short one - the kids could look in the cab while standing, but it's a heavy haulage mover (or something, tried not to learn too much!).
Out for a few hours to do the crazy supermarket thing while Lachie was at a friends, then once we got home, the return convoy started!
Great chocolaty Easter Sunday, three silultaneuos hunts, drive in the heavy heavy rain, many board games (then some more!), Narnia DVD then walk in the cloudless, sunny evening!
And yay, I've actually caught up here! Big chunks and many events missing...but at least you can see we're not MIA!