Monday, July 15, 2013


Here's a start to finally updating this blog of mine!  More to come soon :-)

MAY...
It was still school holidays at the beginning of May so we took the train into the city and visited the state museum with Renee and Marleen and her girls Elisa and Caitlin.  There was lots of interesting things to see and discover! 

 not the sharpest photo but here we are on the train - Devon, Elisa, Olivia, Marleen and Caitlin
Rod was home that week so he kindly offered to look after Levi for the day
he really is the best!  :-)


having fun in the sensory section outside the museum

there were so many drawers to pull out with all sorts of  things to check out!
Renee gets very excited about these things...

scientist Devon
and Olivia doing some observing



... and we soaked up lots of lovely sunshine...


 ...rode to school as many days as we could...

 ...and Levi figured out how to go down the steps into the gamesroom
JUNE...
At the beginning of June we headed down to Albany and had a wonderful time...
 ...meeting Glenn and Leonie's latest addition 'James'
and also witnessing his baptism that Sunday

 ....playing in the park with cousins

 ...smothering Nanna and Pop's dog with lots of love

 ...checking out the cars at the hill climb

...and terrorizing loving the dog some more

 all tuckered out after our weekend in Albany
 and happy to sleep in his own bed again


 I've been doing a few puzzles again - it's great when you can borrow them from the library

 story time

 our neighbour picked up this trolley off the freeway one night and gave 
it to us as he thought the kids would like to play with it.  Well Levi thought
it was fun to walk behind but even better to have rides in :-)

 if Mum doesn't get me something to eat, I'll just help myself!

The next few photos are from the excursion I went on with Olivia's class, the Year 2s.
They went to Melville Library and museum where they did two different activities
which sort of focused on communication, which was one of their topics at school. 

decorating shoe boxes after listening to a story
 morning tea time

doing a tour of the museum - the kids were allowed to wear a hat from a past era

looking at things from the war years

the 5 lovely students I got to keep an eye on for the day

a few of the kids up on a lookout with Perth city in the background
Miss O van der Schaaf helping Devon with his Grug activity book
holidays mean having friends over to play - cousin Naomi came on Monday





2 comments:

Renée said...

Cool! Looks good, and super cute photos of the kids with their bike helmets on :)

Ps. Grammar error on the May post, first box. It should say 'there WERE lots of interesting things...' instead of 'there WAS...' ;) hehe

tintin said...

LOVE LOVE LOVE all the photos!!!!!

At the Park...

Here's some photos I took of Olivia playing at the park down the road the other day.







It's Monday
It's raining - YAY!!!
Olivia is sleeping - YAY to that too
I chopped all my hair off on Saturday...eeek!
Daylight saving is finished! It was dark at 7pm last night; weird!
It's wintry...I love it, I might head for my bed too. Olivia was awake at 5 this morning, snoozed for a bit till 6, didn't take her Dad's advice on going back to sleep, so got to go in bed with Mum till it was a sane time to get up (only b/c her Mum was sick of listening to her whinge and whine). So I'm feeling a bit sleepy...
Anyway, here's some pics from Saturday night. The van der Veen tribe had a BBQ at Paul and Heidi's place for Renee's b'day. (They might be put on one per day b/c the connection is soooo slow.)

The boys looking at Dad and Mum's Melbourne photos

the Girly Whirlys -- Heidi, Charlene, me, Annette, Renee and Ingrid

checking out some funny video clips

Akaroa

Akaroa
This is the awesome view you get as you drive down into Akaroa, a little town about 1.5 hous from Christchurch

On the beach at Long Bay, Akaroa

A shop with character

Morning tea in Timaru

Christchurch

Christchurch
Our 'Kozy Kiwi' - accomodation while in Christchurch

Rod, Kathryn and Rose on the cool blow up trampoline thing

Sunday night BBQ at the caravan park where we all stayed: Darryl, Rose, Rod and Glenn

Travelling...

Travelling...
more beautiful scenery

Mt Cook - NZ's highest mountain


river near Lake Wanaka

Cadbury's Chocolate Factory!!!

Aren't I strong!

Christchurch Botanical Gardens

all a bit bleary eyed at 5am @ the airport

sunrise above the clouds - beautiful!

Zachary

mmm, Olivia gets to lick the beater!

Tastes good Mum!


my little gardener

A busy bee