Monday, November 18, 2013

Beau's swim lessons

Beau swimming around chasing the plastic ball (yes on a noodle) 

Jumping off the side (the other kid in his class wasn't there)


Cheese! 

Practicing kicking 


Head down 





Arms up to dive 

Blowing bubbles 


Splash! 



Starfish float.  Beau gets upset that he can't practice this in the bathtub. 



Surfing at the end of class

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Beau playing tennis

 

Balancing the tennis ball 

While balancing the ball, they work on their tennis vocabulary.  They had to walk to the different lines when it was called out. 


Practicing control of the ball.  Pushing it to your partner. 

Squishing it to stop the ball. 

Drop the ball and swing.  Beau's not quite coordinated enough for this move yet! 


Drop the ball and catch it in the bowl.  He liked this one! 




Balancing the tennis ball on the racquet.  Beau was pretty good this and kept up with their coach.  Then he got to lead the line. 



It's always a good day when Beau gets to go to the park to play in the sand and run after ducks.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

O Christmas Tree

When Chris and I bought our first house, the previous owner left her Christmas Tree in the attic.  It was a huge 9 foot tree that we put in our front window for 7 Christmases.  We had the highest ceilings in our little one story and we ended up putting the tree on another base that raised it another foot or so.  But this tree was not pre lit with lights.  We had to put it together every year, branch by color-coded branch.  Lights were strung row by row until the top.

When we moved to our next house, we didn't have a great place for the tree.  It was almost as tall as our 10-ft ceilings once the snowman was at the top.  Every year we looked for a pre-lit tree but every year we talked ourselves out of it.  Finally last year, we took the plunge.  A beautiful pre-lit slim line tree came home with us after some back and forth and finally the encouragement from my great and talented friend Amanda.  Of course we all know by know what happened after Christmas last year… We moved to Australia…  And Australia has different power so it didn't cross our minds to take it.  I have a beautiful, new grey and white linen tree skirt in storage that has never been used!

So this year we bought a 4-ft tree and decided on a whole new theme.  Instead of my red, silver and chartreuse balls with snowman ornaments, we would go aqua and silver with Australian animals.
We put it up last weekend since they don't celebrate Thanksgiving and it's spring so everything is all whack-a-doodle about Christmas in the summer.





The Sydney Opera House and Kookaberra

Koala, Crocodile and Platypus 

Penguin and White Kangaroo 

Echidna and Brown Kangaroo 

On the far right, you can see Beau's airplane with Santa

Friday, November 8, 2013

Tennis lessons for Beau

Beau started tennis lessons in Term 4 like Emilia. He says it's hard!