van der Schaafs down under

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

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

A week back from camping and this little guy discovers he can move forward, not just in circles on the spot!

Can't get better timing than that :-)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

October has come and gone in a flash! We enjoyed 2 weeks of holidays at the beginning of the month, which included a trip to Albany, a day at Araluen and just relaxing in general. We spent a day out for Rod's birthday, had a party for him a week later, went to League Day and had a very interesting mission presentation by the Wildeboers amongst the everyday things.

On to some photos...
- Albany -

public holiday Monday saw us head to Cheyne's Beach with

Glenn, Leonie and family and Fritz and Viv and family

dolphins in the waves

9.October.2012
We caught up with Ingrid one morning to have nice snuggles with little Clayton

Clayton 5 weeks and Levi 6 months

11.October.2012
We spent a day at Araluen during the holidays with Mum, Annette, Heidi, Marleen, Mary, Diane Moesker and some other church people. A group of volunteers run activities for the kids which is always fun.
All the tulips were gone already but there's always lots of other other pretty flowers and interesting plants to look at.