So much to tell you...

I don't know how long it's been since I've blogged! Too much going on that I've had to process before I could whack it all online. In summary I left my husband and took the girls from suburbia to a little section of paradise a couple of hours away. Now we really ARE treehugging tots, complete with our own little shack in the bush, no power, limited water, no toilet, no internal walls! So it's been a big change but we've never been happier, I've seen the girls change in ways I didn't think possible, they're even more vibrant and glowing and wonderful than ever before! More stories and photos to follow... :)

Hello Kitty Bento

How fun is bento? Bento almost almost makes up for the hollow feelings I have sending Crystal to school every day (why won't she homeschool, waaah!) It's so addictive too, plus now I've set the benchmark there's no way she'll go back to eating the same old rice cakes and a piece of fruit crap I've been serving for the last two years.

Fruit snack, grapes, pretty cut out watermelon and cherries

Hello kitty - a cheese sandwich with nori eyes and whiskers, a meat bow (ew) and a corn nose. And yes I had to open a tin of corn to get that nose. But we ate it the rest the next day so it's all good. Plus some little weetbix, some banana cake and some sugar snap peas.

How fun is bento? Bento almost almost makes up for the hollow feelings I have sending Crystal to school every day (why won't she homeschool, waaah!) It's so addictive too, plus now I've set the benchmark there's no way she'll go back to eating the same old rice cakes and a piece of fruit crap I've been serving for the last two years.

Little mountain scene

I want to jump into this little world, it looks so colorful and magical! After much negotiation in the scienceworks gift shop the girls pooled their money and got this crystal growing set, they're so much fun we've had them before but I'd forgotten about them. It didn't turn out anywhere near as crystally as on the packet, which was good I guess because we got to chat about advertising and how that all works and it still looks pretty. Crystal is in a big 'family' phase at the moment, she's always drawing our family and chatting about the dynamics we've got happening so she made a little clay model of our family to go for a walk in the mountain park :)

Silhouettes

I decided to paint the girl's portraits in silhouette last night, you know, as you do at 1am. The girls got a big surprise in the morning when they got up, Crystal was so funny, she was delighted and kept saying "Oh my gosh, I love it!" too cute. It's hard to tell how big they are but they're really quite large, they're bigger than the girl's real heads!

Point Roadknight and Jan Juc

Sorry for all the 'here's us doing stuff' posts, we've been doing lots of holiday things since my husband's taken time off work and the weather's bordering on nice, wouldn't quite call it summer though! We took advantage of one of the only warm days we've had so far to go to what we've come to think of as Our beach, not sure who told all those tourists about our nice empty beach though, grr! I shouldn't complain, I was expecting it to be crazy busy but we actually got the very best spot in the car park, right near the trail to the beach instead of down the street ages from the water. I wanted to take a photo of it but the fam wouldn't let me, they were too keen to jump in the water!

Point Roadknight has a calm little bay that's great for the kids, the water is quite shallow - it gets as deep as my chest height after maybe 50 meters and then there's a sandbar that's about knee deep so we wade out to that and then play feeling like we're in the middle of the ocean. After we played there for a while we followed the bar to the end and climbed the rocks onto the Point, which is this magical spot covered in rock pools that are overflowing with crabs, star fish, mussels, fish and other little creatures we couldn't identify. I wish I had my camera then but since we swam out to the Point I left it behind. We played there for over an hour then followed the shore back to our towel to refuel before heading into the water again.

When we'd swam enough we drove down to Jan Juc for chips at the lookout, just a beautiful gentle day, the way summer days should be!

Scienceworks (again, yawn)

We go here all the time, it's only about an hour from home so it is a bit boring for me, but it's a fun cheap day for the kidlets, edumacational too, they learn so much, usually random things but it's all good. There was a cool computer thingy where you sat down and there was a web cam that made it look like the body you were learning about was your own, Rainbow thought it was hilarious when her face appeared on a frogs body. It was too dark in there to take many photos, plus the girls were running around from display to display and were never still, so you'll just have to imagine most of the fun. I did get these pics though:

Nice boobs Indigo

Rainbow x-ray
Crystal skeleton
Rainbow and Crystal being little bush cuties.

Luna Park

The obligatory standing in the mouth shot

Rainbow loved the airplane ride
Indigo on the ferris wheel
Crystal in front of the purple rollercoaster that changed it all for her

We went to Luna Park! It was so fantastically wonderful, I love theme parks. I am such a ride fanatic, the scarier and more likely to kill me the better. We haven't been to any shows or theme parks in years so I wasn't sure who the girls would take after, me the Queen of Rides, or my husband, the Queen of standing at the base of the ride holding our bag of stuff. Turns out they're more like me. Indigo is crazy, she has NO fear, the scarier the better! Rainbow was too short for most of the scary rides, but the scenic rollercoaster that I thought would have her crying she just loved, I kept looking at her after the scary bits and asking her if she was ok and she'd be there beaming and nodding at me. Crystal was a bit scared at the start, she went on two scary rides where she clung on for dear life and cried, so she had a break until she saw a cool purple rollercoaster she wanted to try, which she loved so after going on that a few times she wanted to try the scary rides again and loved them! I was so proud of her for overcoming her fear, it wouldn't have been a big deal at all if she wanted to stick to the safe non scary rides but she was determined and she ended up loving it after all.