Charlotte just won the Kids Click – ‘GREEN’ competition with her ‘green light‘ entry and is looking forward to judging the next competition, with the theme, ‘HOLIDAY’. Here’s some of Charlotte’s other photographs, taken using my iPhone camera, with no flash. She discovered that moving the light around, but keeping the camera steady, produced some…
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Needing sleep
And now she lies here blowing raspberries at me like it’s all a big joke. 1.32 AM my clock reads. She’s fed and slept, but I’ve snatched only pockets of twenty minutes sleep at a time. Third night in a row. Hubbie took her downstairs. He said kindly, ‘Get some sleep love.’ But as I…
Super Saturday & ‘Toy Story 3’ Review!
Sophie and Dan headed out to watch Toy Story 3 at the fabulous Empire Cinema in Island Bay on Saturday morning. Sophie was super excited to be meeting up with her best buddy, Alicia, to watch the movie. It was a special Dad and daughter morning, kicking off with ice-cream at 9.45 am! We are…
GREEN – [Kids Click]
The theme for this week’s KidsClick is ‘GREEN’. Here’s Charlotte’s entry (age 7), taken using my iPhone camera. She had fun taking zillions of photos in the dark of a spacey light – very cool! If your children want to join in the fun then click here…
LOVE ending a term with sunshine & a volcano!
Term 2 finished on a high note yesterday, with sunshine… … berry smoothies and a ride on the camel at Maranui in Lyall Bay… The car was loaded up with scooter, bike and roller blades and a ‘Violent Volcano‘ (see video at end of post! Thanks Chicken Grandma & Grandad – the volcano rocks!). Looking…
Dancing through the generations
The music feels like a switch flicking on my body. Limbs move with ease to the rhythm, heart feels full with the mood of the melody and mind is clear of all thought. Shoulders back, tummy in, toes pointed with practiced precision. Face and body expressing a story without words. I reach out with graceful…
A dribbling, bubble blowing fanfare
Stand back! Cover up! Alice’s latest party trick is producing a big dribbling, bubble blowing fanfare, complete with chuckles. And she’s rather good at doing the turtle too… She loves to giggle over our shoulders and is very ticklish. She loves it when we kiss her chubby cheeks, nuzzle her ear and blow raspberries on…
Sophie’s ‘Rascal Rabbit’ book
Last week, on a rainy day, Sophie and I sat down to write a story about Rascal rabbit, from Sophie’s Kindi. He’s come to stay a few times and he certainly lives up to his name. We used ‘Snapfish‘ and Sophie is delighted with her own special book. We’re going to give a copy to…
The loveable sevens
Charlotte you are seven! It always seemed a magic number to me and numerologists believe it is… ‘Sevens deal with esoteric, scholarly aspects of magic. Representative of scholarly activities, mystery, and the focused search for esoteric meanings. Seven deals with the activation of imagination and manifesting results in our lives through the use of conscious…
Alvin!!!!! Movie Birthday Party for Charlotte
Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 was in the house Saturday night for Charlotte’s 7th Birthday celebrations! The countdown for the movie party started days before. Fairy lights twinkled away the mid-winter gloom and balloons were strung up north, south, east and west. Goodie bags stocked, balloons stuffed with lollies and attached to elastic bands for…
Action Girl
Sophie the action girl, your enthusiasm is amazing. You love thrills and are fast on wheels. Cycling, scooting, roller blading. Twice this week we’ve gone to Kindi on foot and back (6.7 km!). You did great – though had a rest in the buggy for part of the way (Mummy did great pushing you and…
Wild beauty & time well spent
Rock pooling, rock climbing and tossing the largest rocks we could carry into the sea was a great way to spend an hour of our time this afternoon. Wellington’s south coast is wild, rugged and forever changing with the tide, weather and shadows of light from sunrise to sunset. I don’t think we’ll ever tire…
Drawings in the sand
At low tide the wet, flat sand of Lyall Bay makes a welcome canvas. Sophie delighted in writing messages of love and mastered drawing hearts (a little something she’s been working on). Charlotte drew pictures and made trails (with maths questions!) for me to follow. They both asked for me to take a photograph and…
This is Me – [Kids Click]
The theme for this fortnight’s ‘Kids Click’ competition is ‘This is Me’, with the mission… ‘You need to find a way to take a photo of yourself in a way that tells us something about what kind of person you are, or what kind of things you are into etc.’ Sophie, age 4, took this…