Holiday Fun: The Ice-Rink!

On a random morning during the holidays my friend Barbara invited us to join her and Ella for a Snowman building competition at the ice-rink... what a brilliant outing! With another friend Angela and her kiddies we {read Barbara} built the snowman... the kids loved it! with a visit from the Easter Bunny and a Mime, Christopher was adamant on returning as soon as possible to get back on the ice.

 

 

 

After the snowman building competition (which we didn't win), the kids had a quick "spin" on the baby ice-rink.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bicycle Moments

You know those proud moments, when your kids achieve and take part of something wonderful... those moments that make you want to bottle the feeling to keep forever.  Last Saturday was one of them.

My kids took part and completed the "Tricycle" tour, part of the Cape Argus Cycle Tour held in Cape Town every year.  What a fantastically well organised event!  Something that we'll definitely repeat again,  there was even a comment from Bradley about a goal to complete the Argus himself next year! (the big one, not the tricycle tour)

Enjoy the pics, I think they speak for themselves:

 

 

  

 

  

 

 

  

So proud of my monkey's with their medals!

Sea, Sun, Sand and Ice-cream

On a random Sunday afternoon in January we took a stroll at the beach to buy some Ice-cream... It's a "tradition" that we always wish we could do more often, instead it becomes a random occurrence too few, and far between.

It really is simplistically & peacefully beautiful.  The sea. The sun. Ice Cream. Happy Kids. Fresh Air. 

I love that Sophia literally screams for her ice-cream (especially if you try to help her eat it).... and I love how Christopher is mesmerised by the rolling of the waves.  Like I've said before over and over again: It's the littlest things :)

First of the Forest Walks

When we got to Germany, one of the first outings with the kids was to the forest, for a fresh and cool walk... unfortunately I couldn't go with.  It seems that Murphy travelled with me from South Africa, and surprised me the day after we landed. 

In an attempt to pick up a screaming Sophia in front of the shop around the corner from the house, I put out my back... a searing pain shot up my spine, and it went into a very painful spasm.  Walking home from there, up close to a million steps was not fun.  First week of my holiday spent on the couch. Yay. Not.

The reason for Sophia having a full-on tantrum was because she refused to put on her beanie... which was another unforeseen element to our holiday. She hates cold weather, and also hates getting dressed warmly to go out into winter.  So this lead to many hours of coaxing, reasoning, yelling, threatening and bribing just to get her to put on a pair of tights!

This would explain the sullen look on her face in many holiday pics, whereas Christopher is a completely different kid. Loves the cold, loves going outside in winter - in fact, since we've been back to some amazing sunshine weather, he's already asked me to go back to see some more snow... I asked if he doesn't preferred running through the sprinkler at home in the sunshine.  Apparently not.

I wish I could take credit for these amazing snapshots, but they're all Matty's doing ;)

Exciting times ahead, getting ready to launch my new Photography website... can't wait!

Watch this space,