Kids are kids

Some days the pleasure is in actually buying the new $20 toy from Coles and not from watching them play the game!!!!!! In my head this is not what envisaged when I brought home a gift for them. Nonetheless, after I said come inside for afternoon tea, eat something and then play nicely they did work out how to play together which was much better than the picture above. (click on the picture the expression is priceless) This is life, this is reality, some things don't go the way you planned. Ain't that the truth!!!!

Backyard Fun

It was a beautiful sunny day in Brisbane today and Sienna got stuck into watering the garden and playing with the chickens. Here's a few pic's from today.

GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art)

This afternoon my mum, sister and the kids and I went to the Gallery of Modern Art to see a display of "finches" and "coat hangers". Yes, you heard right, little tiny birds called finches and the wire coat hangers that you get from the dry cleaners. They had a room which had a limit of 21 people at a time and each person had to wear a tag with a number on it when you went into the room. It consisted of 4 main sections of coat hangers attached to each other hanging down from the roof. When the finches would fly and land on one of the coat hangers the coat hangers would move thereby setting off a chain reaction of each coat hanger touching another coat hanger which sounded like music. It was a very interesting exhibition and the birds are so cute. When I was growing up I had a couple of finches myself and loved them. The 4 sections were divided up into seed, water, nesting baskets and a different type of nesting area. Who would have thought of such an exhibition is beyond me but it was very interesting.

After that we went to another section where we had to wait in a queue for about 10-15 mins to go into a black room which had a little walkway surrounded by water and these amazing glowing balls hanging everywhere. I think is supposed to have something to do with infinity. It was weird and when you are in there it's like a disco and your clothes are very bright. I had time to take 4 photos of which 1 was blurred and then next minute the doors open and it was time to leave. I think you get about 1 minute in there - not long. I don't even know what it was called but the kids loved it and we did as well. Around this black room was a huge display of what looked like bowling balls in silver which is quite effective.

The kids wanted and ice cream after all the good behaviour at the museum so of course there were sprinkles involved and then we walked back to the car and went home.

We would normally park directly underneath the GOMA building however since the January floods all the underground car parks there are still closed because of the water and damage. It was a bit of a trek to get to another car park a few blocks away when normally you'd be straight underneath the building. Hope you enjoy some of the weird and wonderful photos I took this afternoon. You'll see me in a few of them with the camera up to my face!!!

Chickens

Here's the bag of chicken feed that I had to cart from the car, it weighs a tonne... (well not really). The chickens were very excited when they saw it. It gets emptied into the vermin proof (such an American term I think) container.

Bedtime Story

Last night we were running a bit behind our bedtime routine and also I had forgotten to take my photo of the day so I asked James to read Sienna her story and then I went downstairs to grab the camera to take the photo of the day. James hid behind the book at one stage but it's lovely to think that he could read to his little sister.

Veggie Garden

I have recently been neglecting our veggie garden as there has been other things going on in our life however this afternoon I got my hands dirty (well I did wear gloves) and dug out the tomato bush that wasn't going so well and a huge basil bush that had gone to seed. I fed the basil to Coco and Fluffy our chickens and threw the infected tomato bush in the bin rather than the compost).

I did the little trip to Bunnings Garden Centre early today and then I was able to plant butterhead lettuce, beans, basil and some spring onions. I think tomorrow I will plant some coriander seeds as I miss just popping out to the garden and cutting a handful of home grown herbs. All of this will be ready in about 6 weeks so not too long to wait again. When you don't have anything to harvest you really miss it and nothing tastes as good as home grown produce.

Friday night pizza

It's a nice feeling on Friday nights to know that there is no "rush hour" in the morning and that you can all just sit and relax looking forward to the weekend. I let them play one hour of Toy Story 3 on the xbox (I'm not a big fan of computer games) however at the end of the week they can both play, interact with each other for an hour while I can do things as well and then we all sit down to dinner. I decided to order pizza from pizza capers and as you can tell the kids really enjoyed it. We are hanging out for the school holidays as it has been a very long term and still have another 2 weeks left.

This 12 week term has been huge particularly with Sienna starting prep, she is very exhausted and she will need the school holidays to recover. James is going very well although you know he will need a break as well. They are both doing so well at school and I am one proud mummy that's for sure. Love you kids.....