Kindy Picnic

It was the last day of term for kindy today and so we had a picnic there.  Freya loves any opportunity to have us spend time with her at kindy and Eli is always so excited to have a play there.  I'm so very glad that Freya has this year there, it's such a beautiful and caring environment.

Catching Bubbles

Freya will now often blow bubbles for Eli.  Today she showed me a new trick... catching them!  She was pretty proud of that new trick.

A Big Day Out

What a big day we had today!  We all went into Newfarm Park so that Daddy and I could go to the World Press photo exhibition at the Powerhouse while Freya and Eli played at the park with Uncle Kenny.  When we all joined back up again we decided it would be a fantastic idea to hop on the city cats and head over to Southbank for some lunch and an icecream.  After a big day it seemed easier to head out to dinner rather than cook and Freya was very, very impressed by her drink!  Lucky... because they were rather busy at the 'Monster' restaurant tonight and it kept her amused for the long wait!

Sweet Strawberries

We decided today that we wanted to plant some strawberries and so headed off on a little mission to the nursery at Samford.  After stopping off for a play in the playground and buttermilk pancakes we got down to the very serious business of picking out strawberry seedlings.  Freya talked to them.  She earnestly asked which of them would have the sweetest strawberries.  But alas she declared that they were not talking back!  So we asked the very helpful owner of the nursery instead.   When we got home to plant them it was clear that Eli's interest lay squarely with helping to fill the soil whilst Freya could not wait until we were finished so that she could water them in.   I love how well they worked together.  Eli's little hand on Freya's shoulder makes me melt a little!

A pirate and a dinosaur

Ahar! It's Pirate Lij and Dorothy Fraz!

There's a bear in there...

We went to the much anticipated Playschool concert today with Toby & Mel.   Eli was into it from the moment the concert started, bouncing and clapping wildly.  He was so excited when they performed 'Jingle Jangle Scarecrow' and 'If You're Happy And You Know It' - his two favourite songs!  Freya and Toby did a fantastic job of 'I'm a Little Teapot'.  At the end of the concert who could go past some colourful balloons.

Catch up!

 3.6.12 - Today Daddy helped out at a fundraising sausage sizzle at Bunnings for the kindy.  Because we love a sausage sizzle we headed down to say hello and while we were there Freya did a workshop.  Today's workshop was on building a worm farm!  So now we are the proud owners of pet worms and Freya is taking worm ownership very seriously so far.

I also gave Freya my childhood doll Red today.

  

28.5.12 - This week at Kindy Freya got to be the 'Star of the Week'.  It all started with presenting a poster about herself to the class.  Then she got to perform all of the special jobs like ringing the bell and putting out the lunch boxes for the rest of the week.  Let's just say that Freya was in her absolute element! 

 27.5.12 - Eli has recently decided that big kids walk down the stairs.

 25.5.12 - Uncle Kenny came home today!  It's been quite a while since we last saw him.  Eli was swiftly won over with a freddo frog and later on Freya discovered the value of having your Uncle around to help with kindy projects.

23.5.12 - Well we did end up taking Nana to the Shingle Inn.  We went with Aunty Priya and cousin Abby to celebrate Nana's birthday.  Freya was particularly impressed to find out the woman serving us was also named Freya.  Eli is becoming quite the little fan of sitting up in a chair by himself enjoying a babycino.