We are me; Mummy, otherwise known as Michelle, Big chickpea; Daddy, otherwise known as Tristan, Medium chickpea; Rowan and Baby chickpea Reuben. This blog was started as I thought I was starting to loose track of all the amazing day to day things my children learn and how we grow as a family. It is also here to keep family and friends up to date with our adventure of moving our life from the UK to Australia.



Monday, 22 November 2010

Other bits

Autumn / Harvest activities, apple collage with pulses.  Rowan loved the sounds the different grains made on the thick paper




We were given bubble machine.  This was the last day of short wearing this year! 









Rowan has started to draw faces, people and things.  this one is Daddy

Daddy is now complete with glasses and tickles on his chin!


Woodland Imp!



Potion making in the woods

tree climbing


Broomstick making

Rowan has gone from not wanting to climb trees at all, to climbing everyone he sees!

and this little pixie, can you see the look in his eyes, mischief was brewing!

Very muddy mischief!

Our halloween jack-o-lantern

The boys dressed up for freinds halloween bonfire.  Unfortunaltey there were two boys who were dressed up really freakily and poor Reuben was a bit spun out for the whole of the next week!

Bonfire and fire sprites

Follow the Leader to London Town

Crikey!  I haven't been on here for ages! 

Well a lot has happened, I think I will do a quick recap and let the photos do the rest.  Rowan recovered from his first bout of pneumonia, only to get it again a couple of weeks ago, lets hope thats it now!  October continued to be quite mild and we enjoyed some really beautiful weather.

We went to London for a long weekend, Tris had an exam to take and I was attending a breastfeeding conference in the same week, so we all went up and had a great time.   The boys were so excited just to be going on a train to London Town!  The train that we see go through town is usually going to London and one of their favourite songs is, follow my leader to London town.
The Natural History museum was a great hit with the boys, although Rowan would like to go back all the time!  We also went to Kew Gardens, which was just lovely, although one of the playgrounds was a wee bit bonkers as it was half term!

Here we go with the photos, its a bit of a mammoth session, I'm afraid :)

Our two little explorers waiting for the train to London Town

Mummy and her boys going up on the train to meet Daddy

London Plain leaves are bigger than Rowans head!

Overground train into the city centre with a very excited looking Tristan and Reuben!

Natural History Museum

Dinosuar bones!

Rowan was amazed by the dinosaur, Reuben was amaed by the pull out queue thingys!

Rowan and the bones



T-Rex.  Rowan:"Look how little his arms are, he can't brush his own teeth"

Daddy and Rowan at the cocoon

Fresh air!



Big Blue Whale.  I honestly did not realise how big they really were, I knew they were big, but WOW!


Rowan loved the interactive displays, although after a while we were all very tired.

The boys decided that they each wanted a hideous plastic roaring dinosaur toy that all the other kids had, so we went to the shop so they could spend there hoilday money on a seroiously annoying toy and drive us all mad!  They then got distracted by little pop up magnifying glasses and decided that they were much more fun!  Needless to say we were overjoyed!

Beautiful morning reflections at Kew Gardens



The playgrounds there were amazing.  Rowan loved these climbing poles.  He is suddenly enjoying climbing, he is very cautious but is gaining confidence everytime.

These giant wooden mushrooms were beautiful

I love this photo

This one too


Up the treetop canopy.  Rowan did not want to go up at all, so we said that was fine and explined if he did want to go up he would be very safe and we would always be there.  He started to walk away, then 'Actually I do want to go up!'  Going up was a bit freaky but at the top he was fine, the second half he wasn't even holding on (unlike me!)


One of the views from the canopy



Another playground.  This one was next to the cafe therefore very busy.  Rowan suddenly became very protective of Reuben!



Big, beautiful trees




This was the sunrise the next morning.  I was on the train going into the city centre to attend a conference and I was admiring the sky out of the window, only to notice that out of the very packed train, hardly anyone had noticed it!

Daddy took the boys back to Kew







What can I say!