Birthday party ~ actually just a small playdate..

Thanks to Heather for her flashstick thingy with these last few photos. I can't find ours and haven't been updating recently as we haven't put the computers up in the study yet. So I'm typing on the notebook on a box all crouched over.

Bathtime fun...

Comforting a friend

Lili is a sweetie, she's such a 'mommy', taking care of everything and everyone. This is Tilly after a fall on the day we moved. Heather kindly took her for me all day while I pretended I was getting my house in order. We visited them this afternoon and Tilly, Lili and her other friend Sarah Bear all had a bath. Sarah was out pretty quickly then Tilly looked at Lili and asked her, "Can Tilly get out?" in those exact words. To which Lili replied, "Ummmm, yeah!" with a great deal of head nodding in approval. Then they stood naked in front of the sink on a stool eating toothpaste and nodding at various things.

Uncle Mitchy's Cakes

Uncle Mitchy you are forever fondly remembered as the man with the pink patty cakes. Whenever Tilly sees these pictures on her cards (smartie cookies and ice cream sundaes?) she runs around the house saying, 'Uncle Mitchy's cakes'.

Steven The Mover on TV

If you ever wanted to see a man carry a large fridge on his back, or a piano up a narrow flight of stairs, you can watch this. This is my hubby, filmed last year I think. Steve went through this period of being chased around by all forms of media. Radio, magazines, TV. It was kind of strange. Anyway, it's a nice piece of him moving some clients from Australia. They speak about him on there so there is some English to hear. I wish I knew how to save the clip on to my computer, but am not that clever. So here's the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz0S5QDjfxw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsteventhemover%2De%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

Swimming Date!!

The kids acting it out..

Birthday fun!

Celebrating birthdays for the month of June at school.

Song for Nanny & Poppy

Tilly styled herself for this clip, even grabbed the clothes out of the drawer all by herself. That wasn't her best rendition of the abc's but close enough! She really does love her Nan & Pop.

Watching video of Tilly & Lili dancing..

The Hammonds have become like family to us, which is precious when you live so far from your own beloved family. Their departure in July will be very sad for us, but we know we will see you guys in the future.

Tilly the artist..

When we were last in Australia we went to the beach with Nanny & Poppy and Aunty Gwen, Uncle Ben and Grandma came to visit us. Aunty Gwen is quite the artist and using this Sketcher she drew the most beautiful picture of flowers with stems, using the hearts. I've since tried to recreate the picture without as much flair. Tilly thinks it's the best fun to draw on the stems of the flowers I create. Two days ago she came running to me and said "Draw the flowers Mama!" and very proudly showed me her creation. I was so proud of her!!

We're moving!

The new apartment.... We will be on the third floor and the trees reach right to the front rooms, including Tilly's new bedroom. It's bright and sunny and lovely. You walk off the street and into a courtyard, grassy area. It's a very quiet street also. Only setback is that now instead of 7-11 being a 30 second walk I might have to walk about 6 minutes!