Ten on Ten

Thanks to Jodi from Practising Simplicity I've discovered a new photo project and I have also been inspired to take part too!

Ten on ten is a project that was started by Rebekah from A bit of Sunshine.  Rebekah said ' Ten on ten is to a project to document a snap shot of our lives, once a month on the tenth taking a photo an hour for ten consecutive hours. Finding life and beauty in the ordinary things of our day to day!'.

I'm looking forward to capturing our family life in this project.

10/52

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

Harrison: You love your Lego so much! An invasion of minifigures with all 158 of them lined up and ready for battle! You had fun knocking them over afterwards.

Amelie: This photo says it all, you love baking and licking anything that has been used to create our baking! Chocolate chippies were on the menu today.  So often you will say to me during the week, 'can we do baking?' followed by 'chocolate chippie biscuits!'  These have to be your favourite, maybe because the batter tastes so good! and because I always give you a container with some extra choc chips to munch on while we bake.  'The' special container that my Nannie used to put choc chips in for me as a treat when I baked with her many years ago!

Finley: Smiles for your big sister! You love her so much and she makes you laugh!  

Homework & home readers started up this week at school for Harrison.  I love hearing him read, it blows me away how much he has learnt since starting school a year ago.  He is really enjoying a series of secret agent chapter books that he is getting out from the school library.  We read a few chapters to him each night, there has been lots of secret agent role play going on this week!

Over the past couple of weeks something has clicked with Amelie and all of a sudden she is interested in writing her name, she has been able to do an A for quite a while now but she is really into practicing writing all of her name.  Her drawings have also come a  long way from the scribble and she is loving drawing our whole family.  It was Poppa's birthday this week so we sent home a birthday card for him; it was of her and Poppa when they went to the zoo last year (something Amelie remembers fondly) and they were looking at a lion. I loved how it had a tummy button and Poppa had nearly as many whiskers as the lion did!

Cutting with scissors has also been a highlight this week. Her cutting skills are definitley improving and she's had great fun cutting out clothes from a fashion magazine! 

Finley has settled down this week with the top teeth both properly through and a concentrated effort last weekend on some sleep training! What a difference it makes with his sleep being back to normal!

I love watching him interact with Harrison & Amelie as the weeks pass, seeing the joy they bring to his day.

9/52

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

Harrison: Bed-time stories outside on a balmy night

Amelie: Quiet time with teddy

Finley: Sitting on our bed in the early evening light

 

We've enjoyed more movie classics as a family over the weekend.  A new tradition we want to keep up this year with family movie nights every couple of weeks.

 The older two had a day trip on the train into the city with Daddy visiting the Australian Museum.  Harrison was super excited to see the Egyptian exhibition.

Finley's top two teeth have now come through and he had his immunisations this week.   Poor little guy has been in a bit of pain.
The last week of Summer!  Thankfully the Autumn days are still sunny and warm in Sydney as I'm not ready to give up the warmth just yet!

8/52

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

Harrison: Exploring on our bush walk, you were intrigued by this leaf.  You look so grown up in this photo!

Amelie: Frangipani trees are in bloom everywhere, we've been admiring them everyday on the walk to and from school. On Tuesday we stopped and collected handfuls of flowers that had dropped on the ground to make a frangipani crown.  My frangipani princess.

Finley: This sitting up business is getting much easier and he's way more stable now! So much fun getting to see the world from this viewpoint!

A bit of an unsettled week with Master F, a new tooth coming through causing him grief and his first week in the big boys cot this week; perhaps this has something to do with it too. 

This week has felt like it has flown by but I still welcomed the weekend.  Fun was had on our day trip to meet our good friends from Canberra.  The kids loved a run through the bush spotting the big termite hill and admiring the huge drop of Fitzroy Falls.  We saw the biggest Huntsman spider we've seen since moving to Australia; thankfully high up in the toilet block and not in our house!

7/52

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

Harrison: One of the many dress ups this week

Amelie: Practicing some moves before ballet

Finley: Holding onto his toes is a favourite pastime!

A week full of dress ups & dancing!  The face paints have been out again and enjoyed by all, Harrison & Amelie have been utilising the dress ups a lot more this week and I've been loving the time spent with Amelie playing DJ on the ipad while we dance! She sure can move and there is some emerging talent there! I've obviously been getting into it and singing along, Amelie pipes up 'Don't sing Mummy, just dance!'.

Finley has been enjoying more new tastes this week & loved his first rusk, I'd forgotten how much of a mess they make!

With the rainy weekend & in between the many birthday parties we've watched two classic dvds with the kids, Home Alone & ET, they both loved them.  Nothing beats hearing the kids hearty laugh when they find something really funny.

6/52

 

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

Harrison: Enjoying after school play time in the sun with some of your birthday Lego

Amelie: We had so much fun this afternoon with silly play & watching funny animal videos on YouTube!

Finley: I could seriously eat you all up, you are so delicious!  Look at those lashes & super soft skin!

Another busy week with the school & preschool routine back in full swing.  Harrison is settling in well with his new class, I must admit I was a bit worried with his kindy class being split up this year but thankfully there are some friends in his class and his new teacher seems great!

Amelie & I had a fun start to our Saturday with an early morning cupcake baking session ready for school lunches & for over the weekend, even the neighbours benefited!

Finley has got the hang of his sipper cup and gets very excited to hold it and seems to have mastered the spout.  We have been experimenting with some new tastes this week which had us in fits of laughter with the reaction we got with pear! I have to share a few of the facials in the photos below!

But even after the torturous first tastes of pear he couldn't hold back his excitement when Daddy got home from work! I love it!

Have a great week x

5/52

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

Harrison: School started back this week, year one!

Amelie: Excited to be putting her ballet shoes on again for a new term

Finley: First swing!

A busy week with school holidays over, back to the school routine and extra curricular activities up and running again for the year.

Started Finley on solids this week with great success,  he is loving it!