It was birthday season at Kerrima.
We went to Cat’s 1950’s Sophia Loren dinner party, Thiango’s tropical picnic at Davies Creek and Cosmo’s Minecraft party!
Varsha learned how to embroider to make these socks for Lara’s birthday present. She made a beautiful box too. But we got Lara’s birthday day wrong. Varsha worked so hard to get it in the post on time and it arrived one month early!
Varsha went to swing dancing looking very smart again last week. Thiango took a nice Polaroid of her outfit. This week she got a cold and stayed home.
Laxmi has been making funny movies.
Varsha and I went to the Port Douglas carnivale parade on our way to the airport to pick up John. We saw the Sassy Cats in the parade. One of the circus teachers is in Sassy Cats. We really enjoyed watching a busker doing contact juggling and other clever tricks.
Laxmi had her first archery class last week. She really loved it. This week she has a cold and had to miss out. She was very disappointed.
We had circus for the first time in a while. They did lots of silks.
We had a dentist appointment and X-rays to see about Varsha getting braces.
They are building a new house across the road. The frame went up so quickly. It looks like a drawing.
Varsha made a little pathway through the grass to the dam. It was nice to have a sunny day and go outside after some grey and wintry days. It’s started to get cold at night.
We had a stall at the markets. Laxmi made a house in a tree in the park where the markets are and Varsha did the kids craft activity with her friends.
Laxmi has been doing more cooking. We have been researching all kinds of things like blue diamonds and how to say toast in Japanese.
Varsha continues to draw a lot. She’s really enjoying her new desk, lamp and shelves setup. She has been experimenting with pictures that can be seen through the paper.
Music classes are a lot of fun and the teachers are really happy with the band’s progress.
Varsha has been sorting and repairing and repainting her monster high dolls. She made a box to put all the sorted shoes and clothes into. Then she painted it inspired by Del Kathryn Barton’s paintings.
It’s been hot.
Varsha has been repainting Monster High Dolls.
We had a pottery workshop with the homeschoolers. We went down to the creek afterwards. Then a beautiful storm came over and cooled everything off.
Cosi and Thiango came over for the day while Cat and Will went to Cairns. It was nice to go out and draw on the road after the heat went out of the day. Cat and Will brought home dumplings and fortune cookies and we had a Chinese New Year feast.
There is a big flock of black cockies flying around and calling out from the tree tops.
We had a lovely Easter with games and hot cross buns and an Easter egg hunt with Cat and Will and Thiango and Cosmo and dinner together in the evening.
