Random Fun

Some random pictures of our life, fun, games and silliness.

 

Ethan

Ben

Grandma and Ben

Mummy (Sal) and Ethan

Silly Faces – Ethan (Ben took this photo)

Grandma’s silly face. Ethan thinks it’s funny. (Ben took this photo)

Grandma and Ben pulling silly faces (Ethan took this photo)

Cuddles – Grandma and Ben (Ethan took this photo)

Ben

Ethan – ready for a snack

Our sandpit that we built and finished almost 18 months ago. Last weekend we FINALLY put up the much needed shade cloth. If you click on this link, you can see the story of us building the sandpit. You may also notice at the bottom, I wrote “Stay tuned – next project is a shade cloth to cover the sandpit. On a sunny day it’s VERY HOT in the sandpit”

Better late than never right!?!?!?

A photo showing the shade that the shade cloth provides at midday.

Ben and Grandma playing totem tennis.

Ben playing with the hose. Both boys love playing with the hose. It’s days like these I am so thankful for our two HUGE rainwater tanks. I don’t feel guilty about him wasting water when he can play with tank water.

 

See this small child’s legs poking out from underneath that Thomas couch?

He saw my iPhone on the couch. He loves playing with iPhones. After he saw it, you could see him lurking around it for a while, planning his moves……. He casually got his Thomas couch from the other side of the room and placed it on the couch. He then lurked for another minute or so, pretending to be innocent. Slowly and stealthy he wormed his way under the couch so I couldn’t see him, and started playing the iPhone. The whole time he was concocting his cunning plan, I was in the room, watching him while I pretended to be busy folding laundry.  ‘’

His plan was clever, and he gets points for it!  (Can you tell who it is?)

10am.  The house was clean last night….. sorry you missed it! 

We went to the shops and bought 2 small cheap fish tanks and nets. We got some tadpoles out of the pond in the back yard. We have 4 of them (2 in each tank). One of Ethan’s tadpoles has little legs already. We are keen to watch them turn into frogs.

Ben and Ethan on the slide at Playgroup. It was really quite this week, and the almost had the whole park to them self! A photo taken by a small child. I love the fact that he piled his fire trucks. I also love his toes at the bottom of the photo! 

How well do you know the boys? Who’s toes are they?

Ethan the contortionist

Can you see him? He worked hard to squash him self in my toilet cabinet. Excuse the mess, he did that to get himself in,

Singing Boys

Ben was in a singing mood this morning, and I managed to capture some songs on the phone’s video. The sound isn’t that great on these, sorry….. so you might need to turn up your volume.

 

Wheels on the bus – at the end, the bus goes “all the way to Grandma’s house”.

We have a book called ‘Driving to grandma’s house’ and in this book they sing wheels on the bus, which is why Ben is singing it that way.

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Ben’s version of the alphabet song. A little mixed up in the middle, as usual….. but very cute!

 

Incy wincy spider.

 

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

 

Row row row your boat…… (with twinkle star actions!)

 

Ethan and Ben doing ring-a-ring-a-rosie

 

Ethan’s turn with incy spider. He’s a comedian, and changes some of the words to gibberish, and thinks it’s very funny!

 

And another “Melody” from Ethan, with random gibberish in true Ethan-the-comedian style!

Another taste of summer…

We had some warm weather last week, and made the most of it outside and having fun. Unfortunately this week, it’s cold and rainy again. This spring is such a tease… warm for one week, cold and rainy the next :(

 

Summer fruit is out, and the boys LOVE it. They were thrilled when I served them up this fruit platter while they were playing in the water in the back yard.  

We have also started to set up our slightly bigger pool This pool it about 6ft in diameter and probably about 2ft deep when full. In this picture it’s only about 10cm (3-4inches) deep, as we’ve only just started to fill it up. So far it’s only about 20cm deep, as local laws require it to be fenced with a pool fence once it’s 30cm (1ft) deep. We’ll get it fenced soon and then fill it completely.

Sorry this photo is so bad, it was taken with my iphone, through a glass window……To the left you can see Tracie and the boys under the shade of the umbrella eating yet another fruit plate.

Thanks to Shell and Michael for this umbrella last Christmas. We have used it about 10times already this spring. It goes where ever we are in the back yard, as we don't have much natural shade….. it’s BRILLIANT!

More yummy summer fruit.

Ben in the pool. He is wetting Sal’s leg with the hose.

So Sal got him back!!

Sorry about the photos. Maybe these poor quality photos are a good reason to upgrade to the new iPhone 4s!?!?!

I want that 8mp camera on that phone!! hahaha

Fun at the beach

Summer is coming, and we are making the most of the occasionally extra warm spring days. We went to one of the local beaches last week, and had a great morning. For those that know the area, we went to Little Beach. For those who don’t know, it is a 600m (half mile) walk from the car park to the beach. It’s a nice walk and the boys enjoyed it. They did not know there would be a beach at the end of the walk, and enjoyed the surprise when the track opened out and they saw the sand and water. Little Beach has a fresh water creek running through the sand, with lots of river stones in the path of the water. It’s fun for the boys to play with the rocks, and we made pools and dams with the rocks.

Ben in the red shirt and hat. Ethan in blue, his hat kept blowing off as it was quite windy.

The 600m (half mile) walk uphill back to the car with two tired hungry boys wasn’t quite as enchanting as the walk down the the beach. Ethan cried for the first 5 mins, but with some clever distraction and education about the trees, bark, plants and animals we saw, the walk was over before we knew it.

In the last part of the walk as they were getting a little whingy again, we played a game of finding flowers and taking pictures with the iPhone. The following are Ben and Ethan’s photos of some wild flowers.  

We are really enjoying this age, and the new adventures we can take now they are just that bit older :)