March 2011

Lily started at Kensington Gardens PreSchool at the end of Feb. On her first day she wore her new pre-school t-shirt. She looks cross in every photo. Don't be fooled. She had a great day and continues to enjoy herself. Drawing a picture of herself

First day at preschool making a pattern using beads on the OHP

At the end of January Zim had surgery to remove a dermoid cyst from his left eyebrow. We thought he might be a bit drowsy after the general anaesthetic wore off. We were wrong!

Here he is shaking the bars of the hospital cot

That was after he finished running around the room and practicing his new skill of turning around and around and around

Turning around can make you feel a bit dizzy

And there are so many buttons to push and interesting cords

At the end of Feb Zim had a fall and bumped the other side of his face. The bump did no damage and the cut, which looked terrible at the time, was actually very shallow and did not even require a stitch. The doctor at the emergency room asked us to stay for a few hours to check his reactions just to be sure he was ok. He is fine. In fact, after about 15 minutes at the hospital he was running around checking everything out. Here he is finally sleeping.

On Australia Day weekend we had a lovely beach holiday with Tania, Stan and May.

At the Fringe Festival Lily played on the bungy trampolineThe man helped her go extra high

Here are our chickens : Daffodil, Vanilla, Little Christmas and Silvie. Now we also have Rainbow and Rosy who are black. As yet we have had not one egg...

Walking home from the previous kindy with Charlie

Planting beans wearing new t-shirts from Ma & Pa who just got back from South America

Sydney in January with Peter

Daniel

Christmas 2010

We dressed up to watch the Christmas Pageant. Lily and Dada stayed at the back because there were a lot of clowns and Lily really doesn't like clowns. Zim is a puppy.

Or is it a giraffe?

Or a leopard?

Whatever it is, it's cute! We met AJ at the Korean festival after the Pageant

We met Santa at Dada's work Christmas Party. Lily wouldn't go near him. Luckily someone else brought her the present. Somehow, I think Zim will need that next year.

Birthday Month - Part 1

October is a very busy month for birthdays. It begin with Lily's birthday on the 3rd of October. Lily is now 4!

Lily woke up very early @6.00 am (5.00 am the old time due to daylight saving) on her birthday. This is the suit that Lily wore when she was a new baby... 4 years ago...


Lily received lots of presents from Mummy, Dada & Doppy!

As usual, Doppy likes to be a good helper....

Ma & Eghosa came at about 8.30 am to deliver more presents!

As usual... Doppy likes to be a good helper....

We then went to Norwood Bowling centre to play Ten Pin bowling with Emily & Charlie

Doppy is being a good helper again.. This time he is helping Lily blow out the candles...

Doppy is helping lily drive the car... what a good helper!

A big hug from Emily!

Doppy is too little to play ten pin bowling... but he is not too little to be a good helper!

In the afternoon we went to Daniel's birthday party at Wiggly Worms..

Doppy had so much fun playing in the ball room...

Lily is exhausted after a long day of celebration!

The Chicken Project

We have been very busy in the last couple of weeks (or maybe months.. took us almost 2.5 months to complete the whole project!) helping Dada build our chicken house.
In this picture, Lily is telling Dada how to put in the post properly...

Here Doppy is helping Dada mixing the cement... Doppy is a very good helper

The workers are having their well deserved rest...

Opps... disaster... luckily no one is injured... we may need to get the work safety inspector to come and check if we have adequate safety measures in place on our building site!

Lily, Doppy, Mummy and Ma went out to get the chicken...

This is daffodil and Vanilla...

Daffodil and Vanilla like playing in the yard... btw their house is still under construction!

Daffodil and Vanilla like following the "pink" shoes

We have to get extra man power from Eghosa to help finish the chicken house

Finally... yay! it is now completed...

Lily, Daffodil and Vanilla in the new house...

August 2010 - Random pics

Denise & Alix taught Lily to stand up on a horse! Lily & Zim Zim helped Mummy plant some seeds in pots.....

We had a holiday in a tropical island paradise : Magnetic Island and Townsville.


Our big baby can now sit forwards in his baby seat.

Jonny drew a picture of Lily.

Zim went on a plane for the first time.

A day in the Life of Lily

On Friday July 2 we took a photo of Lily every 30 minutes. First, though, an update on ZIM. He can now stand up by himself and helps us clean the kitchen cupboards every day. Standing up again. This is how nice our hallway looks without curtains! Now it has curtains it feels a bit less like a fridge.

Here we are on 2 July. In the morning I was in the study while Dada checked the email.

It's 7 am.

In the kitchen about to get breakfast. First I have to practise balancing on this broom.

After breakfast, I had a shower and then went to my room to get dressed. My room was nice and warm, so rather than go to the toilet I got the potty in my room.

I'm dressed now and getting ready to go to Montessori. This is our calendar, so we know what plans we have and what the weather will be.
Riding in the double pram with ZimZim down the street for Montessori at 9am.

At Montessori, we explained to my teacher Jessica about our project of taking a photo every 30 minutes. She agreed to take the photos while I was at Montessori. Here I am washing a tube that had colours in it because someone tipped it instead of squirting the colours.

Then I did some counting and colouring. I was copying the red and blue rods onto paper. Jade was next to me.

Then we threw 3 dice. We counted the numbers and then circled and squared the numbers on our paper. This is Jamie.

Then I went outside and played the dice game because it was time to go outside and I still wasn't finished.

This is the new guinea pig at Montessori. It's named Rhino. The rabbit and the Rhino are getting used to each other. (This is an extra photo)

Before we went to the music room I had a drink and took off my shoes.

At home after Montessori, I had a snack of some yoghurt.

We tried to have a nap, but Zim was too lively so we decided to do some cooking first and then have a nap. I am unwrapping the mince for the pasta sauce.

Then we made the pasta bake. We put pasta, then meat sauce, then cheese sauce in the big dish. I decided to put mine separately - one bowl for meat sauce, one for cheese sauce and one for pasta.

Then it was nap time. We made a nest in Mummy & Dada's big bed and fell asleep.

For a long time.... (actually 2 hours so there are some photos missing because Mummy had a nap too.)

When we woke up we all ate porridge (or as I like to say powwidge with bwown sugar). Zim had a bread stick as well.

At 4 o'clock my friend Oscar came over to give me an invitation to his 3rd birthday party. We all went to the park together - Lucy, Toby, Oscar, Mummy, Zim and I

At the park we met Robbie, Charlie & Archie and Tania, Jessica & Alexandra. We had so much fun! Charlie shared his lammingtons with us. Ma came by too for a little while. I got some dirt in my eye, but I blinked and blinked and it came out.

Here is a view from above 4:45

Alexandra got in the pram with Zim, who was feeling cranky and hungry. She patted him and I patted her! I really liked her hat. The sun started to go down and it was getting cold so we all walked home together (we could do that because we all live on the same street) 5:10

Although, it still took awhile for everyone to get going (5:15)

We got home just before dark and soon after Dada got home 5:45. He has never been home so early on a Friday night before! He will have a new job soon, so let's hope it becomes a regular thing. As soon as Dada got in the door, I asked him for the iphone. I have to check my fish in the "TapFish" aquarium. Mummy, Dada & I all love to play "TapFish". We sure will miss it when Fairuz goes to his new job!

Playing in the lounge. This was going to show me doing a somersault. Well.. the camera is a bit slow sometimes.

Eating my pasta bake, while Fairuz checks his tapfish.

Ok so there is one missing here of Zim and I in pjs. It also shows Mummy and she doesn't like that photo of herself one little bit.
Tonight is a World Cup soccer match so Fairuz is going to sleep on the sofa bed with me. I really like that. Dada and Zim already asleep, getting energy to watch the match.

Asleep at last! 8:19 pm