Pool Party

After weeks and weeks of clear blue sky, we got the first rain in a long time for our pool party! But a few raindrops have never kept us out of the water. In fact, we swam during the last thunderstorm!!!

* LET'S JUMP IN TOGETHER *

Our favourite pool games are
CASTLES (working in teams on each other's shoulders to knock opponents into the water)
MARCO POLO (a water variation on hide-n-seek!)
WHIRLPOOL
TRAINING (swimming up and down and up and down and up and down)
BOMBING (when we're allowed)

Tea Party

Special biscuits and muffins we made that were not ready in time for lunch called out to be eaten at an AFTERNOON TEA PARTY. Mama even set the table with a tea set from her childhood and the remainders of a painted-by-K8 porcelain one. L6's flowers-for-Mama decorated the table.



K9 had made T2 a very special skirt to wear. He sewed it by hand.

Chinese Dinner Party

Having a Malaysian grandmother (Poh-poh) is a great heritage, especially for the foodies of the family. Yesterday we beavered away in the kitchen cooking a very tasty sour chicken laksa and chopping lots of veges from the garden to make spring rolls. Mama accommodated our request for steamed BBQ pork buns from the local Chinese vege shop - she thought that was a pretty easy contribution to the meal. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

no party poopers here

yesterday it was PJ party...today it's blog party...we've never been to one of them before!

we love to party and play and potter and ponder and play-dough and pick (veges from our garden) and paint and picnic...come join us....we're going to party all week.....we'll have our party and while we're sleeping you can come and see what we did "tomorrow" (coz we're ahead of most of you, you know!)

pyjama party

Yesterday Mama went out for the day and Dadda looked after us. We got lollipops for lunch;-)

We were still buzzing this morning....here we are getting ready for church!




(ok so we're all still in our jammies and haven't really started getting ready at all)

Kids Can Cook

T2 enjoys helping make the pasta.....this batch is full of basil from our garden.....mmmmmmm


Look at this whopper - it greeted us when we got back from our camping holiday.


And we can't wait for Pumpkin Soup. We've got quite a few pumpkins growing this year. J11 wanted to feed a milk pumpkin just like in "Farmer Boy", but there were already too many on the plant by the time we noticed them this year.

Tidy Today

We have done a big tidy-up. And Mama re-organised everything. Now she says there is no excuse for our stuff to get messy!