Something is wrong with my children

They are sitting in the playroom on the couch together watching telly. No fighting, no squealing, no yelling, just sitting together on the couch watching 'Big Boy Shows' with their 'special blankies'. Something is seriously wrong with this picture.

I'd sneak in and take a photo but I'm scared the moment will end.

Bliss

Summer Fun

It was beginning to look like we had seen the end of summer weather but the last few days have blessed us with some glorious sunshine. We took advantage this afternoon and swapped our bath water for clamshell water out on the deck. The kids had a ball splashing around, eating icy poles and generally just fluffing around like kids do.


As usual, the camera wasn't far away.

I survived Kinder duty!

It was actually really good. I was worried I might spend the entire morning chasing after Jemima but at one stage I actually forgot she was there. Miss Independent had a ball, she knew all the routine of putting smocks on, putting puzzles on the shelf etc... I actually had to drag her to the car crying when it was time to go home, she wanted to stay longer.

Max had a great morning. I introduced him to box construction so that he could make some 'Transformers' and I think he has found his new 'thing'. He managed to get the hang of the masking tape and scissors and spent most of indoor time working on his project. It still isn't finished, he wants to add more to it on wednesday. I can see we'll be collecting lots of things to take to kinder to add to the construction table, only for us to bring them home again.

I didn't take many photos, Kay kept me too busy. The privacy laws mean that I could only take photos of my own children so that made it difficult to get good shots when there were lots of kids around. I did manage to get a few though.

The Return of Routine

Bliss.

Tomorrow welcomes the return of some semblance of a routine in our week. Kinder is normal hours, Jemima is back at 'Little Kinder', I have Playgroup and Octobubs. I've really missed having that structure to my week. The past 2 months have dragged soooo slowly with school holidays and then a slow start to the kindergarten year. I think Max and Jemima have really missed it too. I know Jemima is craving some time away from Max and the feeling is probably mutual.

Andrew left for Korea this morning so having a routine is going to make the time pass more quickly.

This is my week:

Monday - Kinder for Max. Work for me in the evening
Tuesday - Haircuts for the kids, Playgroup. Catch up for Tracey's birthday in the evening.
Wednesday - Kinder for Max
Thursday - Kinder for Max, Little Kinder for Jemima
Friday - Octobubs
Saturday - work
Sunday -Swimming for Max. Andrew is home from Korea

I'm on kinder duty tomorrow. I can't wait to see what goes on. I have the camera charged and ready to go. I'll be back tomorrow with photos.


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First day of Kindergarten

My big boy has his first session at kinder today. I think you can tell by the look on his face that he was pretty proud of himself. It's only half groups this week and for a short session which is a gigantic pain in the backside for parents. I understand the rationale behind it, I used to be a kindergarten teacher so I've been on the other side. But as a parent, dropping him off for 1.25 hours - 75 minutes is just ridiculous. When he was at Coonara last year for 3 year old kinder they started the year with a full session of 2.5 hours. It seems silly now they're having less time when they're older. Thank goodness this staggered intake only lasts for 2 weeks.

Jemima was less than thrilled to be told that she couldn't stay at kinder this morning. She walked into the classroom and sat on the mat with Max and wowsers did she protest when it was time to go. The same thing happened when we went to pick him up, she pulled up a chair at the drawing table and decided she was staying. I think she's really missing occassional care, thank goodness it starts up again next week.

Can't wait to hear how Keely goes tomorrow at her Kinder. It's a shame they aren't together for kinder this year but in some ways it's nice that they have something separate and they have the opportunity to make new friends. Hopefully they'll be super excited to see each other at other times during the week.

This time next year I'll be blogging about his first day at school...now that's something I am NOT ready for AT ALL!

Phew...

I promised I'd be back with some photos from over Christmas. I know it's almost the end of January but hey, better late than never. We had a double Christmas celebration last year (it seems weird writing that). We had Christmas Day with my Mum, Dad and brother Paul and on Boxing Day we celebrated again with Andrew's family; Marj, Garry, Jan, Colin, Ella and Hudson. It was lovely to have such a special family time.

I pinched this photo collage idea from Jan, it's a great way to share lots of photos.

Bad Blogger

Sorry I've been such a bad blogger. I don't know where the time goes. I promise I'll be back tomorrow with some photos of the kids and a proper update. I've just uploaded 427 photos onto the computer and combined with the almost 600 we took over Christmas I definitely have lots to share.

Anyway, for now here is some of my work for the past week. I've been in the mood!