The mess. It starts over breakfast, after the first round of washing has already been mysteriously whipped into the washing machine. Alice enjoys baby cereal off a spoon – but she hasn’t quite got that you hold the spoon by the handle – preferring to get stuck right into the action on the tip of […]
Charlotte
Wanted: The New Milkybar Kid
The search is on for the next New Zealand Milkybar Kid. We had a hilarious time filming this morning – using the audition script on the Nestle Milky Bar website. Here’s Charlotte’s 60 second audition piece… I’ll post the ‘bloopers’ and Sophie having a go another time (only 7 to 9 year olds can enter).
Tooth Fairy where did you get to?
‘Mummy! That tiny tooth has finally come out!’ It was just before bedtime. Dan was reading Sophie a story. I was lying down nursing Alice to sleep. Charlotte had read a chapter of ‘Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows‘ with Dan and was now playing a game on the iPad before switching on her favourite […]
Running away with the circus…
‘I can’t wait to go to circus school! Only one more year till I am 8,’ Charlotte enthused to the man supporting her as she balanced on the cog wheel. We were at the Petone Winter Carnival and the Wellington Circus Trust was there giving children and adults an opportunity to run away with the […]
Sunshine Sunday Surprise
Sunday morning and Charlotte had a mock jazz exam. By the time it had finished there was an unexpected colour in the sky – BLUE! Sophie hadn’t been pony riding for a while so we piled in the car to the wonderful Country Club Riding Academy in Ohariu Valley. Sophie ran in to greet the […]
‘Beaut bike ride home. Wellington is the best city. Ever.’
This was Dan’s tweet on Twitter on his bike ride home last night. He said he just had to stop and take a photograph as it was so awesome. Wellington is great at throwing us days like this to keep us going through the winter. Days that make you stop in your tracks and feel […]
Signs of spring to combat the viruses
Back to back viruses continue to plague us, but nothing too severe – just enough to keep one or both children home from school and kindi. We’re into week 3 of term 3 and I’ve had either Charlotte, Sophie, or both the girls home, whilst not feeling great myself with a persistent sore throat and […]
The Joys of Responsible Parenting
This morning started out with all the pleasures of parenting… of Daddy and daughter on the football pitch at ‘Little Dribblers‘… and Mummy and daughter walking down to beautiful Lyall Bay on a sunny, windless, Sunday with baby sleeping peacefully to the sound of the waves and the motion of her mother’s step… and then […]
Feelings through Chalk
On Sunday, Charlotte went out on the driveway with a bucket of chalk and wrote a few words to describe her family and herself… I love that Daddy (Dan) is described as ‘Nutty’! And for me (Sarah) Charlotte writes ‘Racing’ for R – she said, ‘Because you are always racing around.’ I adore that for […]
Daddy & Daughter Time
Charlotte & Dan enjoyed a very special Daddy & daughter time one Sunday evening at the beginning of the school holidays. I booked them on a special, guided night walk at Zealandia: The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. It was for children aged 7 to 12, accompanied by an adult, and I thought it would be a […]
Love of Dance
Charlotte has discovered a wonderful dance school in Wellington and finished a Jazz workshop on Friday, in preparation for her Grade 1 exam in a few weeks. She’s been dancing every day for the week and loved it. It’s such a joy to watch her do something she loves with a passion. She dances at […]
Cool Photos from Charlotte
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 […]
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…
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 […]