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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014."

Harrison & Amelie: Let's go fly a kite!

Finley: Eating sand, sand and more sand!

We had a fantastic day at Bondi Beach flying our kites at the Festival of the Winds.  We went last year but it was a bit of a rainy day so this year the weather behaved and the hundreds of kites looked amazing against the blue sky.  We spent the afternoon at the beach and after kite flying Amelie braved the water once again for a swim while the boys played in the sand.  Finley had a ball eating so much sand and he also loved playing with the bucket and spade.

Finley had his first hair cut this week, well really just a fringe cut which was majorly overdue! He surprised me by staying perfectly still and no tears! 

Amelie's preschool has been studying New Zealand this month so I was invited to go in and talk with the kids.  I loved getting to play teacher for half an hour and read them story books from New Zealand, talk about the kiwi, teach them to count to ten in Maori and very badly teach them the haka! I had the help from a little kiwi soft toy that we have that sings the haka, the kids didn't care how bad I was, they just loved sticking their tongue's out at the end!  Amelie loved having me there too!

Amelie had her last day of ballet on Friday for the term and parents are allowed to view the last class.  She did such a great job and has really improved, Amelie didn't get stage fright like the last time Matt came.  She had a lot of nervous excitement and I think we got the most waves and smiles out of all the parents!

Harrison was excited to finish school for the term and had his second spy club meeting to celebrate the start of the holidays!

A very eventful and scary Saturday night for our family, whilst having friends over for dinner poor Matt got a large piece of chicken stuck in his throat. After realising it was well and truly stuck we took him to the hospital emergency department where after an xray and then CAT scan he was operated on in the early hours of the morning to remove it.  It certainly gave us all a real fright, he's doing really well, he just a really sore throat and is very cautious about eating.