Kira And Santa

Kira spied Santa at the shopping centre when we were on our way to get the girls' hair cut. She just HAD to go and give him a hug! She wanted to tell him "Fan-koo for da presents"! Good manners, Kira! I had a hard time making her wait her turn at least (there were some boys having a photo with Santa, and other people lined up waiting for their turn, too). She made herself at home next to him - I had to go fetch her! But Santa didn't mind, and he gave Kira a "Madagascar" (animated movie) colouring book. Lucky girl!

Erika's First Hair Cut

Erika's hair is thinning at the back (rubbing off as she sleeps), but what she has left just keeps growing and growing...

...it's so long, I can put it up in pig-tails! I just need one clip to help keep her fringe out of her eyes.

On Nov 12, Erika had her first hair cut. She was so good, especially since she'd JUST fallen asleep, and I had to wake her! She sat on my lap, and played with a bracelet the hairdresser had. No tears, no fussing!! Here's the end result:

I think she likes it! (That blue disc is a mirror!) "I can see!"

Our First Beach Trip

We took the girls to the beach at Glenelg on Sun, Nov 1 '09. It's the first real trip to the beach we've done as a family-of-four. I've taken the girls to the beach before, but it's always been too cold for a swim, so we just play on the grass in the sunshine. Kira and I have played in the sand, too, but Erika's stayed in the pram. This was Erika's first experience of sand, and I think she loved it!

Kira loved the beach - and keeps saying she wants to go again. The water was still quite cold, but it didn't slow her down!

We built a sand castle!

Professional Photo's.

We had a professional photographer come to playgroup, in time for Father's Day. She was offering 2 photo's at a reasonable price, $5 of which would go to the playgroup as a fundraiser. It was obligation-free, and we got to see the photo's before ordering - something you can't do with school photo's, apparently! Anyway, this is the photo (framed) that Neal, Gramps, and Grandad got for Father's Day, '09:

The deal was for just 2 photo's, but the photographer had printed off 4 - she said she couldn't help herself! So I got 2 extra's for free - yay!! Not only that, but she'd taken more than 150 shots of our girls, when she'd only taken around 10-30 of the other kids! There was only one other family that had around 130 photo's taken, but there's 4 kids in that family!! The photographer kept saying how she couldn't help herself - the girls are too cute! She asked if they were booked with a modelling agency, and when I said no, she recommended one to me. I thought she was just being polite, flattering my kids like that, but I soon realised that she wasn't saying the same things to the other parents! She even asked if she could use some of their photo's on her website!

I had a fun time trying to choose just a few photo's from so many (you tend to get emotionally attached to photo's of your kids!), but I managed to cut it down to around 30, which I bought on disc. These are some of my favourites:

Little Mummy.

Kira breastfeeding Erika's giraffe...

...and expressing (probably for the giraffe she'd left back at home!!).

Kira's Artwork

On the right of the picture, in orange, Kira's drawn a face, with long hair - includes ears, eye lashes, and lips!


This is a picture of our family! Erika, Daddy, Kira, and Mummy.

Thomas the Train, and other personalities.

Kira loves her stories, so much so that she tends to adopt a new persona. She likes to be called "Tinkerbell", "Peter Pan", "Peter Rabbit", and now "Thomas (the) Train". It used to be just around the house, and in addition to being called 'Kira'. But now she prefers to be called 'Thomas', and will correct you if you call her by her birth name! It's quite a sight when I'm at the shopping centre and Kira runs off - if she doesn't respond to 'Kira', I have to shout out one of her other personalities (I don't always know which one!) - I get some funny looks when I yell out "Thomas!!" to a child who is clearly a girl, complete with a pink dress and pigtails!!

This photo reminds me of one my parents have of me when I wasn't much older...In it, I'm wearing a dark blue velour winter dress, and I'm leaning on my Gran's mint green couch - I think I was wearing pigtails, too. Seeing Kira in a velour winter dress, with pigtails, and leaning on our couch, made me think of the similarities.

(Yes, Kira is leaning forward, not a half-shrunken midget!!)