Our two crazies

A little insight into the crazy but sweet relationship between Zac and Claudia

Ballet

Holly has started doing ballet this year, and absolutely loves it.  It's such a joy to watch her.  She's so graceful, and such a natural.

Blogging and baking

A few days ago I spent some time reading some old posts I'd written about Holly and Zac when they were little.  I enjoyed it so much, and was reminded of things I had otherwise forgotten.  So, that prompted me to get back into blogging about my  family (if only for my own record of their lives... and for my mum :) ).

Recently Zac asked if he could do some baking (not an unusual request from him) but this time he wanted to make up his own recipe.  I was reluctant to say the least.  My dear patient husband suggested that I should let our son have a go.  Zac pleaded, and said he wanted to make something with nuts in it for Holly.  Sweet child.  I took a deep breath, and agreed.  Zac selected all the ingredients, and I gave him a rough idea of how much of each one he might like to use.  Holly pretty soon joined in the fun.

The resulting cookies apparently were quite nice!  I was so glad I let Zac go ahead and do it.  I love his love for baking, his love for his sisters and his initiative.  I love the way Zac and Holly worked together, and actually encouraged each other.  A happy mummy moment.

Autumn

These are some photos I put in a post last May, and just realised I never published them.

Learning to write

Since starting school Holly has gotten so much better at reading and writing.  It's really exciting to watch her progress.  A few weeks ago she was playing schools with Zac.  Holly, of course, was the teacher and Zac was the student doing some drawing.  I had to chuckle to myself when I saw what they'd come up with.  Can you read Holly's comments on Zac's work?

Grait (she later corrected her spelling to great)

Almost great!!!!!

Dressing up

Claudia has recently discovered her love for dressing up.  As you can see in this picture, it's not enough for her to simply wear one item from the dress up box.  Nope, dressing up for her usually involves putting on as many different items as she can manage (or as many as we will help her with)!

Trampoline fun