A New Family Member

When we first moved to Perth Sarah fell in love with a couple of friends. Right from the start she would hang out with them, talk and chatter and cuddle. Here she is with them in February 2008.

On Thursday, one came to live with us!


Here is Sarah with her friend Honey. Honey is three years old and they are great mates.

I just asked Sarah what she wanted me to write on here and she said...... I love Honey cause she is so beautiful and nice. And cause she does not bark. And sometimes she be's naughty and sometimes she be's good. And she plays with me but she does not play with Buddies Toys.

She said - Tell Grandma, I got a Honey Dog. And she's gonna stay with me forever and ever and ever.

Fathers Day at the Kindy

As you know - it was Father's Day yesterday....so during the week they had a Father's Day afternoon at the Kindy. Neil went along and took the Camera with him too.

Here is Sarah running out to meet Neil.....it's a bit fuzzy I know - but that's cause she was moving so fast.

Hi Daddy!!

The children had baked Biscuits and Cakes for the Dads. And they had a Cup a Tea. Although Sarah calls is a Cuffatea - which is a mix of Coffee and Tea!

Here she is with some of her School mates.

They did some activities together - including playing in the tent.......which is tiny and I doubt Neil even squeezed his legs inside!!

Cheeky as ever!!

Hair Cut Day.

Today we had Hair Cut day at our place.

Ana's friend Alyse came over and did it for us. Alyse works with Ana but is also a Hairdresser. She is from Tauranga.

Sarah had a trim.......

Mine was chopped......

And Ana got the Smooth Doo!

Alyse & Ana

Freo Funny!

Today we decided to have a Family outing. We decided to go to Freo (Fremantle) for a wander around. Neils cousin Paul lives there and we thought we might catch up with him too - but unfortunately he got stuck at work - so next time perhaps.

Freo was lovely - busy as usual and very touristy.

The story of the day was......................We had a bite to eat and a wander and ended up at the Round House - which is an 179 year old Stone Gaol. It is on a high hill and from there you can get some awesome views over the Port & Sea.

At 1pm everyday - they fire a Cannon from there as a reenactment of when they used to do it to let the ships know the time. They had two systems - the Cannon firing and a Ball dropping. One to signify local time and one to signify GMT.

Anyway - we just happen to arrive there about 15 mins before the Cannon fired - so we hung around to watch & listen........ at 12.55- we were all hearded back behind the safety line and given the spiel about it all, told to cover our ears and then there was a big count down.......10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1....BANG! (not)

Ohhhh - it didn't fire!

That was a disappointment.

So the lady scurried around - and we tried again.........awww NO BANG!

OK - she'll just check this and that and plug that wire in again.........here we go........awww NO BANG!

So - that was it.....off we went. As we were leaving there were people hurrying up there to see it. But Ana said...... "Sorry - you just missed it - it was Awesome"!

We finished our wander and came home, stopping on the way for Ice creams.

Kindy Days

As you would have seen on a previous Post - Sarah is now at School (Kindy). She has just finished School holidays and is so happy to be back at school. Although she was exhausted afterwards yesterday.

During the holidays they sent home her School Portfolio of her work so far. It's so cute - so I thought I would put pics of some of it here for you to see.

Mama took me to the Zoo today...

This is the Baby Giraffe at Perth Zoo.

Guess where we went today? My Mum is visiting us at the moment - so we decided to have a day out at the Perth Zoo.

We had a lovely day wandering around - it was warm but not too hot which was good. Here are some pics from our day.

Two of the Giraffe's - the smaller one here is the Baby from last year.




Stripey Horses - Zebra's really.


Sarah called these Turtles....but they are really Tortoise.


While we stood there - they all went off for a walk.


Sarah loved sitting on this Life-sized Galapagos Tortoise statute - she had remembered it from our Zoo visit last year.


This Orangutan had a 6 month old baby. They only have a baby about every 8 years.....then breast feed for about 6 years!


This is one of the Asian Elephants - he has great tusks.


Mr Tiger was sleepy.


Sarah and Grandma

Penguins - really cute...but quite smelly. And really fast swimmers too.

This is a Black Neck Stork also know as a Jabiru.

The big Croc was out in the sun.

He's huge - you know!

Mum got friendly with this Mama & Baby

Mothers Day Project

So did all you Mum's out there have a good Mothers Day? Get time off? Put your feet up? Well I got quite spoilt.

During the day Neil and Sarah disappeared. I could hear Neil sawing, hammering and pottering in the shed. And Sarah seemed very happy pottering round with him. I left them to it for a while and then when up to see what was going on. They were busy making something......so I went away.

A while later they emerged with a new Peg Basket for me. It had to be painted....so they did that. Here are some pics of the finished product.

Sarah painted this side.

Neil painted this side.

See how it hangs on the line....and I can move it along the line or take it off the line too if I want.

A very handy gift.