Monthly Archives: February 2015
Scarlett’s birthday
We joined Scarlett for her birthday party at the Giraffe House today. Scarlett and Grace often play together at school and every now and then Grace speaks about, “Gacie” because that is what Scarlett calls her. The Giraffe House is awesome and has a reptile show which the kids enjoyed, and it was good to hang out with some of the people from school.
The birthday girl got to hold a small tortoise, which will one day grow into a huge Leopard tortoise
Happy birthday Scarlett!
Grace wanted a photo with the boa constrictor
Serious stuff this eating chips
Newberry family braai
We had an awesome braai at school, and got to meet and get to know more of the families – we now have names for some of the faces we see everyday. It was a great time and Eli and Grace missioned around playing. It’s about the latest that they’ve stayed up, but they both did well.
Grace, Kate and Eli gathering the hula hoops
Pees mommy
Eli knows how to ask for something, and he knows how to ask really nicely. He doesn’t whine or moan, he just looks at you with big blue eyes and says please so nicely that it melts your heart. He just says, “Pees mommy,” and well, it’s hard to say no. Poor Donné keeps saying, “You’re killing me Eli, you’re killing me,” like when they were going through the toy store and Eli would pick up every truck and gently implore, “Pees mommy, pees mommy.” Or at night when he is going to sleep and I tell him that he has had enough water and can’t have any more…then soon after comes a quiet, “Pees water, pees water” from the bed….well, it’s hard to say no.
Cake decorating – week 2
The cake decorating course continues, with Donné learning how to make all sorts of cupcake toppers from sugar paste – like flowers, owls and teapots.
This weeks outputs
Grace requested an owl
Grace thought this cupcake was very funny – a cupcake on a cupcake.
Slide ‘n swim
Eli had his first swimming lesson without me in the water today, and it went pretty well. We had some tears and him coming to me a few times, but he did do all of the exercises. He would do one, come to me for a little cry, and then go and sit back with the others. He did well.
Grace keeps asking if he went on the slide, and today he did so I took a little video for her.
He’s not just my brother…
Grace was saying, “Do you know? Eli is not just my brother, he is also my friend. When my friends go home I can still play with him.” And that is why having a brother is awesome.
Grace was talking to Gogo & Gramps…Eli was trying to pull the sequins off her top
Drawing a train
“Hey, Eli, what are you drawing?” “Train, train.” That boy loves trains, cars, bikes, diggers, cement trucks and “bin” (rubbish) trucks (although just about every truck he sees is a “bin” truck).
