January

2013 has gone so fast and we are already into the second half of February. Here is a short summary of last month. The baskets of clothes to be folded and put away can wait for a little longer.

Sam started at a new daycare on the 7th of January for two days initially. He didn't really like the daycare, maybe it's bigger than what he was used to. He cried every morning for about two weeks. Then something happened that made me decide not to go back to the family daycare. It didn't take long to get the 3rd day in the daycare that Sam still wasn't keen at that time. He stopped crying when I dropped him off in the mornings though, and started to mention some names. When I picked him up last week he didn't want to leave. I guess we have turned the corner with this one.

Lara had her 6th birthday party on the 12th of January. The mermaid girl I hired before Christmas cancelled on me a week before the party, luckily a replacement pirate was found for the day. I filled up nearly 100 water balloons two days before the party to save time but they all bursted in the heat. The ice-cream/jelly birthday cake didn't turn out very well either. On the bright side, Lara enjoyed the party very much, but Simon said we are not doing another party for 10 years!

Kids playing 'pass the treasure box' at the party.


Lara and Sam did Suzuki summer school during the weekend of 19-21 of January. Lara did the junior violin program and Sam the Early Childhood program. Lara's program was very similar to the one she did at Spring school. She had 3 classes a day. Lara enjoyed the enrichment classes where they played games on slowing down and multi-tasking. In the pictured play-in session, the kids all had fun playing violin while doing other things (like playing lying-down, turning around and around or kneeling down). Sam also enjoyed his lessons a lot. We will be doing it again next year.



Lara and I spent one special day during the school holiday just the two of us. We spent first half of the daye in the art gallery of nsw then watched 'The wind in the Willows' at Royal Botanic Gardnes.While we were at the Art Gallery, we watched a miming performace called 'Draw the lines'. It was funny and very creative using pictures from this year's Dorbell Drawing competition. Lara knew and loved the songs sung in 'the wind in the willows'. We both enjoyed the show and also plan to go back next year.

We bumped into a 'bubble artist' on the way to the Art Gallery. Lara loved the different shaped bubbles he made.


I worked a little during January but almost always had one or both kids with me. It was nice but very busy. Thanks to brother-in-law, we also had the rare chance of going out to eat at a Japanese sushi bar in Crows Nest without the kids one night early January.

School started on the 30th of January, I went back to work on the 31st of January. Life is even busier after that. And that was our January.