2 weekends

top 1+2: fun at the playgroup church fete

middle 3: little sister's first scone! 

(the cream went in her nostrils...)

 

middle 4: behold the rare sighting of little sister in a hat!

bottom 5+6: strawberry deliciousness at the night market

from the back log

top: girls jumping in puddles, peppa pig-style

(today big sister has been calling me "mummy pig,"

little sister "george" and won't respond unless

i refer to her as "peppa."  sigh...)

middle: girls in their summery shirts,

brought back from greece by nana

bottom: some baby birds in their nest,

in a tree at the back of nana and pa's house.

(the day after i took this photo, i went back

to check on the birds, expecting to see 4 little beaks, 

only to find the mummy bird perched on the nest -

she frightened the life out of me!)

painting

yesterday, for the first time,

little sister did some painting.

she loved it, her preferred method

being to keep the paint carton

on top of her canvas while she worked.

as you can see by the second last photo,

she was devastated when i took the brush away.

big sister has started experimenting with colours

and was describing what was happening

when she mixed certain colours together.

her current preference if for no white bits

to be left on her canvas at all.

when we'd finished,

the girls were so filthy with paint

that i decided to send them outside

for some water-play in the afternoon sun -

and when i came back 10 minutes later,

their hands were all clean! hooray!