Christmas Tree

L: before and R: after

The kids have been desperate to set up out tree this year and have been asking for around 3 weeks already. So we ended up letting them set up the tree a few days early.

Squealy jumped in afterwards and vacuumed up all the tinsel and bits of tree that was all over floor.

A good team effort all round!

Repitle Centre

We visited the Canberra Reptile Sanctuary today. String Bean had a real hands on experience as they have a new area where you can pet the lizards enclosed. Being a real critter kid she really enjoyed the experience.

String Bean's 9th Birthday

String Bean celebrated her 9th birthday yesterday at the CSIRO Discovery Centre. She just loves this place and really wanted her birthday celebrated here again.








Lots of fun had by all. Especially with the stick insects and turtles.

I also made her a tree full of spiders as a birthday cake!

Canvas Art

Here is my latest completed project. A mixed media collage canvas. Am super happy with how it has worked out. 8x8 using some photos from our holiday to Malua Bay in 09.

Little Athletics

String Bean has been attending Little Athletics and she just loves it. We know quite a few families with children at athletics, so it's like a big get together for us both.

So far String Bean has given everything a go and her times and distances are increasing.

She has been placed in the under 9 girls and it is a pretty big group of kids. The coach, Jeremy, is just lovely and he really goes out of his way to get the kids going, especially the shy ones.

Today Jeremy ran the 400m with String Bean so that she'd get her pace right. What a champ!

The Great Wynyard Bird Hunter

Squealy decided on our latest Sydney trip that he wanted to catch a bird. Any old pigeon or ibis would do. He wasn't being particularly picky.









He tried all kinds of tactics. Sneaking, running, stalking, chucking his ball at them and even offering choc chip cookies.

NOTHING worked. He got pretty upset and frustrated.






When asked why he wanted to catch a bird, I was completely surprised by his answer. "I want to eat one for dinner!"

5 year old logic ;)

Fuzzy Wuzzy's Birthday

Fuzzy celebrated his 7th birthday party today with his friends and family.


He chose John Knight Memorial Park and the kids had fun following a trail of clues ending with a treasure chest.

Fuzzy loved his Ben 10 Omnitrix birthday cake.


The kids enjoyed opening all the presents once we were back home.

We were lucky to have fabulous weather and the kids had a ball.