lazy sunny afternoons

last weekend was super hot so alot of time was spent at the beach or lazing around at home... 

we did head out to the kite festival in rosy rosebud. finn and freya managed to dance up a storm in the 40 degree heat...

i have done a bit of sewing lately - skirts and 'red riding hood' capes - hopefully i can get enough together to try and sell these at 'christmas at the studio' later in the year (or maybe take the plunge and open an 'etsy' shop???)...

heaps of bands to see this month - off to neil young tomorrow - super excited! xx

little italian stallion

well, i have always wondered whether learning italian at three year old kinder was worth it... here is proof that it is - 'ciao buongiorno" starring little finn

take two xx

  

first day of autumn

well, you i've somehow managed to miss my blog through the whole of summer and here we are now, at the beginning of autumn! alot has gone down during the last few months but i am not going to re-cap too much - christmas was super good, finn turned four,and  freya started taking (alot!)

i might re-cap from a week or so ago... last sunday evening, i was watching a little tv with finn when pat raced inside and told of to "check this out". we ran outside and much to our amazement there were three peacocks wondering through our garden - just cruising along, checking things out. i had to shoo them off my vegie garden as they managed to eat most of my red tomatoes and lettuce! they ended up wandering off down the street towards the beach - finn was sure they were going for a surf...

i took the kids to "the mighty buzzniks" at the spiegeltent last week - finn definitely takes after his mum - he really wanted to be up the front rocking out with the other moshpit kids - he couldn't quite make it though the pack so danced on the seats at the back...

yesterday was a little more traumatic... we went to the farm where we buy our vegies. finn and freya always give the rabbit a pat. it is no ordinary rabbit, i am pretty sure it is just a little smaller than freya! anyway, this cute (huge) bunny turned into super scary vampire bunny. we were chatting away to it as usual, then it leapt up, stood on its to back legs and gripped on to finn's finger with it's big bunny teeth, almost swinging of it really.... he screamed and blood poured out everywhere (gross, i know). we then had to drive to the doctor... finn entered the surgery, crying and whimpering  clinging on to my neck. the other waiting patients looked at both finn and i with sympathy as we headed in to the doctor's office. the doctor checked finn's bloody finger wrapped it up with an enormous bandaid (much larger than necessary  but provided for good effect) and gave him a lolly pop. finn was alot more cheery and as he exited the office  he proudly held up his triple wrapped finger to the patrons in the waiting room and loudly exclaimed, in an almost texan drawl "i got bit by a rabbit!" nice one finn... xx