Blogg-ed Issue

On some cushions, in a tent, on a chair, in the lounge of course!

You know that saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder?”

It’s true.

Or, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover?”

Sometimes you can.

In actual fact, I really don’t mind snails all that much. I just don’t love them like Cayley does.

And when you get a whole lot of them together as pets… well, the closer you look at them the worse it gets!

Most of these posts of late have been me going through the photos and telling stories from them.

But I have some memories I’d like to record, and they’re pictureless at the moment.

In the week following his birthday Elisha discovered that he had a wobbly tooth.  He has been waiting and waiting for his teeth to start falling out, and he is beyond excited.  He is constantly wiggling it trying to get it to come out.  At one point he said to me, “Everyone in my family knows that I have a wobbly tooth, but not many other people know, but soon everyone will know.”  And boy, do they!  He even told his class for news today.

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During the holidays I took the kids around to mum and dad’s a couple of times.  On one occassion my dad, who’d had a tooth removed by the dentist the day  before, was showing of his battle wounds to Cayley.  She was appalled.  Then he waggled his false teeth at her.  Horrified.  He then moved on to give the performance to Jos.  I was talking to Mum and watching Cayley out of the corner of my eye; as Dad was giving Jos the show, she was backing away from him into a corner, and yet not taking her eyes off him.

And then, his false teeth fell out.

And Cayley fell over backwards.  She got such a fright!

It was hilarious.  I still laugh thinking about it now.

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I know that there were more stories than that to tell, but my mind has gone completely blank.  Guess I’ll be leaving it ’til another time.

Here in the Adams’ household, we LOVE lego.  Just ask Brett, he even has his own special Star Wars set.  But once the kit has been built, and pulled apart several times, the pieces end up in the rather large container of lego that we own.  And that’s when the real creativity sets in.

Now over to Elisha.

This ship is the first made by Zoinks Droid Shark.  It can shoot from the back and front.  The net can catch three or two people in one go.  The generators create a ginormous shield.

This is the second powerfullest ship.  Those things at the back can shoot and create a shield at the same time.  The front things are if they go in mine they are safe.  The man has special protection because the frying pan he can fry bullet pancakes and throw them at people, bad things and explode them.

Lego ship three is the smallest and its only two powers is to blow up things and to give people good hopes.

This is the master ship.  It has a pet name “Scooper” because it looks like the digger on the front of a digger.  It can also go through mines, but it has to go through the back.  They’ve got four people in it.  It’s got a little thing which looks like a key.  It’s actually a crystal that can freeze anything.  And they’ve got this little scooter.

And let’s go over to Cayley now.

It’s got grass for the animals, because it’s got animals in its ship.  One of the people are the look out with a gun.  And some of the people are dead even though their heads are still on.  And when they go out, they have their jets on.  And the tow-truck piece is to stop the tow-trucks from coming in.  Also they can splat invisible jam and vegemite onto people’s heads.

Cayley’s class had a morning tea party before the Easter school holidays.

Jos and I joined in the celebrations, and much fun was had by all.

I also took my camera.

And got some cute shots… and flash backs to my own kindy days.

Jos, making his very effective ‘brumming’ noise for the truck.

This is what I remember.  Using real kitchen pots and pans with sand and water.  So much fun, and not a normal home activity.

Cayley is quite at home at kindy.

Lately, Cayley has taken to face paint.  Hooray!

Elisha has almost never let anyone ever paint his face.  Though I think now watching Cayley and Jos get so much fun out of it, he’s changing his mind.

The last thing I painted was bunnies.

Here’s Cayley

And Jos, he doesn’t have quite the staying power for sitting in a chair, so it’s just a little bit smaller.

At the moment Cayley has been asking me to paint her hands and/or feet, because of some ideas we’ve seen in books.  But with the wet weather, I’m not too keen to have painted hands and feet inside.  When it is a bit drier outside we’ll go for it.

A lovely photo of Cayley I took the same day as “Pig Elisha”.

Our girl is so beautiful.