AFTERNOON CARD GAME

We have been playing UNO in the afternoons this week and Sienna is now old enough to understand most of how the game is played. After a number of games with the 3 of us Sienna decided to go and play with the dirt and water (as she loves to do) so James and I were left to play each other. After several rounds of UNO, Sienna decided to gather some grass cuttings (pulled out with her bare hands) and once we declared a winner she proceeded to throw the cut grass up into the air over the table like confetti. It was quite funny and we let her do it at the end of each game as long as she picked up the grass and put it back in her little spade to do it the next time. Kids can be funny can't they! LOVE EM.

Bribie Island

The other day after visiting the strawberry farm we stopped in at Bribie Island for fish and chips for lunch, a play in the playground and a walk along the beach. Many of my childhood memories were spent on the calm side of Bribie Island and Mum has many slides of us kids in the water in our cute little ruffle togs.

Cartoon Camp

James and Sienna brought home a brochure from school a few weeks ago for a "Cartoon Camp" during the school holidays. Normally I have a quick look and throw it away however they both were very keen and held onto those brochures like they were gold. I picked one day out for them and they got to draw Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry, Garfield etc. so I thought today would be suitable for both their ages. I dropped them off at the local school at 9.30 am and picked them up at 3.30 pm. They had a good day and did very well at learning to draw cartoon characters. Here's a couple of photos of them at the end of the day.

Strawberry Picking

For the past 2 years my friends have taken their kids to Rolin Strawberry Farm about 45 mins away on the way to the North Coast. This year I was determined to make it and the "pick your own" only opened to the public last Saturday so we got in early. I was looking forward to some beautiful photo opportunities and took along my expodisc (for perfect white balance) and we arrived and there weren't too many people in the fields so photos would be just us and I started to take my first photo and the camera was flashing inside "no CF Card"........oops....it was still in the computer from loading my photos last night. I couldn't believe it but luckily Poppa Waz had his Nikon with him so we took a few photos on his camera and then I uploaded them to my computer when we got home.

I have only done that once before but it didn't matter as I wasn't really in the picture mood taking on that day but today I was wanting to take some Karen Russell (KR to my friends) shots..... The Nikon does everything back to front from Canon so when you are zooming in on one camera, on the other it's zooming out so it was all very hilarious. Here are some photos of our strawberry picking adventure and they were absolutely delicious and huge fresh strawberries.

We dropped into Bribie Island after the Strawberry Farm and had fish and chips for lunch, the kids had a play on the playground, threw the Frisbee and had a little walk on the beach. Photos of the beach will be posted tomorrow as there are lots from the strawberry farm to post today.

Feeding the ducks

About 6 months ago my good friend Karin (who did Project 365 in 2009 with me) had taken James and I to a little creek in the suburbs to feed the ducks. Sienna was at kindy and I think James had a pupil free day at school. Anyway as the holidays are winding down I'm thinking about doing little activities for the kids which are fun and inexpensive so I decided we would go for a little 15 minute drive to feed the ducks. We took some old bread rolls out of the freezer and cut them into little pieces and I gave the kids a little brown bag of bread each to feed the ducks. We did feed the ducks along with lizards and heaps of turtles. This creek is in the middle of suburbia and we were just so thrilled to see so much wild life there. You can see our beautiful muddy flood water in these pictures but I'm sure the turtles and ducks love it. Here's a few photos of our little visit to feed the ducks...well heaps of photos in fact I took 100 of them, gotta love the age of digital don't you.