New pics of the kids

Chef/washer woman/cleaning lady/crawling lady

So sally's mom is here for the week, big bonus. The lady cooks, cleans and does the washing, pity she is only here for the week. Any way Rachel and Grandma were out on the green in front of our house. ( British idea of a green is smaller than our old front lawn in SA, but it pushes the property prices up by 30% here to say fronts onto a green) any way Rachel had here grandma crawling around on the ground in front of 15 odd houses, bet all the people were laughing there heads off.

Rain, I lied.

So i lied , there is sun on the odd day, riveting stuff hey!!

Ballet girl

I took these a while ago and promised to share them and then forgot. So here are the photos of Rachel in her ballet clothes. ( Note how huge the 2 yr old tights are on her) She loves ballet and has such a good time. I must remember to take some photos when she is in the class. ( moms are not allowed to stay and watch as it distractes them but there is a watching day so i will try remember the camera that day)

Washing

Well does this look familiar; another load of washing, another rainy day. Surprised!

Local Park

Well Rachel and I (Gavin) went off to the local park. We started off by flying Rachel's little kite on the athletics field next to the park, but it was all a bit of a challenge. The kite fly's on it's own and there was enough wind, but the challenge was getting Rachel to keep hold of the kite string and not let go the whole time. So as per usual the quote 'my enough” came out and we packed up the kite, then off to the park.

We started on the baby slide which is about 2m long and spent the better part of 30 minutes on it. Then the ice cream truck came along so we got an ice cream each because, believe it or not the sun was out and the weather was hot. (Hence the photo is proof of the sun).

Now that is where the fun started to end. Rachel decided after eating her ice cream that she wanted to go on the zip line. We did this a couple of times (which we have been on loads before) while we (Rachel) kept exclaiming ''again again’’ and then the expected happens, flat on our back and wailing as if there is no tomorrow. So we get over the tears and exclaim we want to go on the 360 degree swing. We start out fine and then again, wham, flat on our back again and more tears. So again we are in tears from shock and our biggest concern is that our shoes are dirty. (I.e. no bones had broken luckily, just more shock).

All in all, a good day.

Still it is hard to remember that face plants and bruises are part of life, seems like 30 million years ago that all I was was a bruise and stitches with some skin. (Let’s hope Rachel never gets into playing with matches).

Scooter bike

This is Rachel's 'Like a Bike' it is a bike without pedals that teaches kids how to balance as if they were on a real bike and is supposed to be better than a bike with training wheels - who knows I can't ride so i trust the experts.

She loves it and can scoot along balancing for quite a good distance. I also finally got out the house today - and not just to see a doctor. Felt so much better.