Squeaky shoes

Amelia found a seat at the right height.

She took her music box with her

And his clapping. Then she took

her books too.

The library door is open and she is having a good time

getting her toys and some more books.

My friend Tricia gave me those shoes for Amelia.
They squeak as she walk.
(you can hear them in the banana video).
The first time she had them on she was looking
to where the noise come from.

They don't stay on well if she crawl.
She love those puppet but only if she has them on,
not any one else.
And we sing a French song:
Les petites marionettes

I gave her a crown from the Christmas bonbon

and she put it on the horse. It did not stay on

so she try again and again and was a bit rough

and wreck the poor crown.

(plenty more were it come from)

She is walking

Amelia has been walking a lot, but she does not want to do it for the video.

She will eat ANYTHING!

I still can't believed she did that !

Australia day 2010

Sylvia, her son Gordon, his wife Gail,Amelia and Jo.

We all met at Narrabeen lake for a BBQ.
Kylie standing, Trent in the sombrero, Shane and Sylvia.

Amelia and Jo are tasting the spinach dip

a speciality of Trent.

Chris and Claude

Kylie giving water to her dog Harry.

They just bought it from the pound

Gail, Jo, Amelia, Kylie and her husband Chris.

the Aussie girl

yep she broke it

Oh Rob is here too.

We had a lovely day. I hope it will continued for the night.

I just gave Amelia her bath and she is sitting on

my lap while I finish this post.

Tawny frog mouth owls

Yesterday when I was siting on my deck

at the table I look in the tree and

this is what I saw:

2 tawny frog mouth owl

I took few pictures

from different angles, they were there just
at the end of my deck.

and woke them up but they did not fly away

Amelia with Mykaela and Anna

Wednesday 20 January 2010

Mykaela watching TV

Amelia want to play

After lunch we decided to go to DY pool.

The waves were very big.

They were crashing over the big pool, over the baby pool

on to the rocks.

The wave were crashing over the pools

and up to the sitting.

Some silly people were still using the pools.

We went to the park "Michaela park"
Amelia is getting dirty.

The dirt stuck to the sunscreen.

Amelia loves being push on the swing.

Amelia is breaking into pieces Norfolk pine needles.

Anna and Sigrid joined us at the park.

Sigrid made her walk.

When the girls had enough of the park

we went to the beach to play on the wet sand.

The beach is close to swimmers.

Some silly one were still going in and the

life savers had a big job calling them back.

The surf was good for the surfers.

Amelia do not like to be down on the beach.

The waves are too noisy and she get scare.

so I put sand on the seat for her.

It was funny but a bit scary.

the girls were playing in the wet sand

and a big wave came crashing

and rolling towards them.

I saw it coming and scream at them.

It won't have hurt them but they will have got wet

and they would have got a shock.

So they moved nearer.

Mykaela is very tolerant of Amelia

not so Anna.

I had to take Amelia to another
patch of sand.

It work until another noisy wave .
She is alright if she does not look at the surf.

It is big today but for her it must be like a tsunami.

Anna and Mykaela's castle.

Time to go home.

Amelia fell asleep in the car.

Jo was already there, lying on the sofa

watching TV or was she having a nap?

Mykaela on school holidays

Tuesday 19 January 2010

Early this morning Jo drop in Mykaela.

Few minutes after we left for the Mall

to try and catch up with the Mall Walkers,

(my Tuesday and Thursday walking group).

I knew that Sigrid was there with her grand daughter Anna.

Anna is spending 3 nights (4 days) with Sigrid.

Sigrid live opposite my place.
The 2 girls were all smiles and giggles when they met.

But we arrived too late for the walk, they were just

going for the stretch.

One of the walkers James bought the girls

a Kinder surprise egg.

Because he said:

"It was lovely to see such smiling faces"

We must look glum all we retires.

This morning we took the girls to see:

"The tooth fairy"

The only movie that Mykaela has not seen this holiday.

After lunch we took the girl to the park

at Balgowlah.

Mykaela is very good at the monkey bars.

Anna was practicing and was getting there

but she fall and wanted to go home.

Mykaela wanted to stay a bit longueur.

I think she saw "Titanic"

Mykaela met a new friend: Josephina

When we got home Mykaela went to change
the pattern in my Zen garden.

Jo dropped Amelia for her Tuesday night sleep over.

When I gave the girl their bath I saw

Amelia with a big mark in her back.

It is not painful, no broken skin.

the next morning it was gone.

Mykaela need more water

Hand gliders

All those photos are taken with my phone and I found an old photo of Claude I took on the 27/12/2009
We were having lunch at the Ex service men club
at Colloroy.
Nice view from our table.
Before lunch we went walking on the beach
with our raincoats, it was sprinkling
Today we went for a walk around Long Reef golf course.
We saw a lot of hand gliders.
This guy is in the last photo too


This guy is waiting for the right moment to jump off the cliff.
he had to wait for the wind to fill his parachute.

here he goes

one is landing on the beach below.

this is the first guy. he lost the wind and crash in the water

A surfer came to his rescue.

They had a lot of trouble getting the parachute

out of the water.

The guy who landed on the beach must have seen it happening

because he was running around the headland to help.