Saturday, July 27, 2019

Term Three: Week One ~ Extended School Holidays

Since my mum is visiting from America for two weeks, the boys and I are enjoying an extended school holidays. So while the public and private school students headed back to the classroom this week, we enjoyed some extra activities and lots of special time with Grandmama.

Monday was the pupil free Lego day event for Monkey and Munchkin. Sadly, Munchkin came down with a stomach bug the night before, so Monkey attended the event solo this time, Munchkin enjoyed a quiet sick day at home with daddy, while Monster, Grandmama and I took a trip into the city. My mum wanted to do some souvenir shopping for the grandchildren back in America and we thought this was best done without the younger boys.

Monster and I LOVED showing Grandmama "Angel Place"! 

One of the things I LOVE about sightseeing with visitors is that I tend to look UP more! We discovered this beautiful building and I decided I would LOVE to see the inside of the top portion of the building. With all of those round windows it must be AMAZING inside!! 

This building just looked spectacular against the beautiful blue sky. 

This Rainbow Lorikeet sat quite contentedly outside a coffee shop for some time. I tried to creep closer to get a better shot, but it got scared away when someone came out of the cafe. 



This little water fountain/bubbler near the ground is ACTUALLY for dogs to get a drink from, but the seagulls have discovered it is a great way for them to get an easy drink as well. 

Munchkin and I enjoyed a few games of Pop the Pig one afternoon... 

 We're still keeping a close eye on our pea plants...

 We also celebrated the Monkey turning 10 years old!

More puzzle progress... 

The tradition of a Hungry Jacks birthday party continued for yet another year... not sure how much longer this will continue... but everyone enjoyed a good feed... 


And a buggy ride... which is the highlight of the Hungry Jacks birthday party!! 

Then it was home in the afternoon/evening and time to open gifts from his friends! 

 Between spending time with Grandmama, and celebrating a big birthday, there wasn't as much reading happening this week... only the independent reading the boys did while travelling on public transport or hanging out at home.







Saturday, July 20, 2019

School Holidays: Week Two ~ Overseas Visitor

We spent our second week of school holidays preparing for a VERY special visit. My mum travelled all the way from America to spend two weeks with us. So we spent some of our time cleaning the house and getting organized for her arrival on Thursday morning.

 Our pea plants are growing nicely...

Despite the fact that our dining room is not warm enough (consistently anyway) Munchkin's crystal kit is slowly starting to grow. 

 Monster and Monkey enjoyed a Virtual Reality school holidays event at the library. The gentleman who runs the program was quite impressed with the boys' ability as they were the only two children to actually build anything over the course of the two-hour event.

We decided to start a 749 piece Ken Duncan puzzle while Grandmama was here. 

Our progress during the first week of her visit... 

 And of course... our books! All three boys are enjoying this series... The older boy who lives around the corner from us gave them some of the books and we sourced the rest from the library.

 We worked hard to finish up our human body books as they were due back to the library...

Monster and I are SLOWLY wrapping up our Medieval Europe unit... 















 And because it is school holidays... the boys are all enjoying reading books just for fun!!