Roly Poly

Djr's latest party trick - the almost made it but I fell sideways roly poly!

The Bandaid

For your viewing pleasure; a dodgy phone photo! It's an important one though, Djr's first bandaid. :) He didn't NEED a bandaid as such but when R got a cat scratch and needed a bandaid Gran only had Wiggles bandaids (bought for Djr.) So, when Djr saw R's Wiggles bandaid he very much wanted one, what Djr wants, Djr gets! A Dorothy bandaid, four Dorothy's dancing across the sticker on his hand.

Too cute.

I can see a Rainbow...

Today I bought Dawson's first "own" sets of crayons and pencils. Beautiful bright colours but a strange range; deep blue, red, peach, orange, light green, deep green, deep blue, brown, yellow, violet, light carmine (that's pink for those not in the colour know). I've never seen a set of children's crayons before with neither black nor white and with two shades of green.

In any case he loves them and that's the main motivation for buying them.

Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/8s
f/5.6
49.0mm
ISO 400

Let's Play!

After a rough day in our household the children have cleaned up their bedrooms to property inspection standards; what a nice change!

Of course, immediately after cleaning up they started building okay spaces within their rooms again. Liam's room (on the left) is almost completely covered in sheets and Rhiannan built a "changing room" under her loft bed. We're going to redesign the "changing room" space tomorrow so it is a little more functional.

Tonight, they have just informed me, Rhiannan is having a sleepover in Liam's room.

Specs: Canon EOS 400D; no other specs as it's two photos in one. These were tricky photos to take though; our hall light is out so I had to shoot into the light in their rooms from the dark hallway. All in all, well, you can see what the photos are of!

Shhh - it's a Secret...

For a while, a couple of months ago, R's best friend would came over R would say to me "can we go to our secret cubby house thing down at the river?" Off they'd go and they'd be down there for hours sometimes (always with a phone for safety.)

This afternoon R said "oh, I can show you our secret thing. It's not really a cubby house." Then as she showed Djr and I this secret place she said "It's not even really that secret, people fish here sometimes."

Now I'm sharing the secret with you. I never really had a "secret place" as a child so I used to climb trees a lot (in particular a large mango tree in our Far North Queensland backyard) to escape the world.

Did you have a secret place? I'd love to hear about it...

Specs:
Canon EOS 400D
1/250s
f/4.0
75.0mm
ISO 800