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Month: November 2009
Happy 5th Birthday Ethan Jack
You are a star. After your 18 hour arrival into this world five years ago in California, you have certainly turned everything upside down. You arrived early, which I was super happy about because it felt like you were getting bigger every day – it …
Last Batch of Kindy Art
I’m loving the addition of the cheetahs in this lot of artwork, nice to see Ethan branching out a bit and painting something other than sharks!
You can click on the images to view them in the lighbox, tres fancy I know!
Tuesday, it’s what’s in my head
After the shittiest of shitty springs here in New Zealand, finally, this sunset tonight; Ethan started school on Monday and has transformed into a Big Boy seemingly overnight. I can barely get a word out of him about his day apart from that he thinks …
The LAST Day of kindy. Ever.
It finally arrived last Thursday, and as much as Ethan loves his kindy I couldn’t believe his excitement about leaving. He has had the MOST fab teachers who have pushed him hard and made sure he has been completing his work and participating in everything. I asked him what the most exciting thing about his birthday was and he replied that it surely was ‘getting out of kindy!’
We had a fun day; there was the paydough birthday cake to make, the special birthday hat that Mum had to design and fabricate, there was the birthday card to be decorated, the final mat time and the finale….where Ethan gave every kid in his class a small treat.
After it was all over I was dragging my feet, wandering around and making sure I had every shred of his artwork off the walls- Ethan was yelling “lets go!” the whole time. Not one for sentiment that boy xxxx
A Big Week
Ethan’s birthday week is always crazy, compounded this year by that inconvenient employment issue I have been having for the last six months….MY JOB! I really love it actually, I just like to complain. Lucky for Nana, Grandparents day was the day before Ethan left …
Dave Cooks: Homemade Salt n Pepper Squid Rings
Oh my God. Internet geeks I might only say this once and consider it for your benefit…..NOM NOM. I am a fat big fan of squid/calamari, whatever. Especially The Backyard’s Salt n Pepper Squid dish. I am probably only it’s #2 fan as Ethan is …
Birthday Party Goody Bag DIY
As I was shelling out dollars in the weekend for my loves 5th birthday party, one thing I just couldn’t buy was a pack of those ugly plastic goody bags that are used for like, 10 seconds before the lollies are devoured the toys are lost or broken and the bags are sent to landfill. I decided to make some myself because, well I have all the time in the world. HA.
We don’t get the newspaper delivered, because I like trees and can read the news online, so Dave went to the local 4Square and they happily gave him a day old paper for free.
I then cut a large potato in half and carved a backwards 5 into it and stamped the newspaper sheets to make them look purdy, cut them up and stapled the sides, filled them and tied them with raffia.
Easy, not too time consuming and cute – I think. Oh, and no extra trees died in the making of this DIY.
A little reflection on the days tweets
I read an update on twitter today, thought ‘ho hum’ and obviously filed it away until my brain was ready to process it. Well I was ready to think about it when I was driving home from netball this evening. Here’s the tweet Soooo…..a little …