12 Days of Christmas – A new Christmas tradition…

A new Christmas tradition

I must say I have been pretty slack on Christmas traditions up until now. We usually drive around the Christmas lights and contribute to the work giving tree. We’ve been to carols once with Miss E, but keeping two kids entertained amongst a large crowd and open flames has just seemed too hard, so we […]

Champions Read!

Honey, You Baked! Book Week 2012

This week is Australian Childrens Book Week.  This year the theme is “Champions Read!”  which I think is very fitting since we LOVE books at our place and I do have a house of little champions:) Miss N is now reading very well herself and loves to play teacher with Miss Z and read stories […]

Storytime for little ones

In my tree by Sara Gillingham & Lorena Siminovich

Master O is FINALLY getting into books. He’s always been the one to listen to one or two pages and then wander off. Miss E is quite partial to this arrangement as she then gets extra lap time and more stories read to her. However, now things are changing and the other day, Master O […]

Its a mixed bag – containing cookies!!

Its a mixed bag...containing cookies!

Second Child Syndrome (SCS).   OK. I swear this is a real disease and I have it.    N:  ”Forgetting you have a second child by not comitting their existence to film”. Miss Z had her 1st Birthday Party last Sunday.  The bunting looked cute, the rain stayed away, the cookie wands were a massive […]

Grug is great!

Meeting Grug

I grew up reading the Grug series of books written by Ted Prior. I’m guessing many Aussie kids around my age did and it seems over the last few years he’s had a bit of a resurgence, due to a well-time re-release around the time that Gen X’ers are rediscovering him through their kids. For […]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 732 other followers