Cartoon portrait

A couple of weekends ago the school fete was held and Peter Lewis, the editorial cartoonist for our region's paper, volunteered his time to help raise money by doing portraits. 



 

 

Ice magic

A little friend of Buster's from preschool invited him to his birthday party.  The invite said it would be held at the Hunter Ice Skating stadium.  I have to admit I was a little curious and cautious about it all.  After all, who invites a bunch of 4-5 years to go ice skating?  This could be the most challenging and high risk of injury style party ever.  Anyway, do they even make ice skates in tiny sizes?  Well yes, it turns out they do.

 

Henry and Milly were also keen to have a go at ice skating, so while I supervised Buster at the party, Michael supervised the other two.  There were frames for the beginners to lean on and skate with until they gained their balance.  So off they went.

 

It wasn't long before Milly had ditched her frame and was skating freely around the rink.  Henry followed not long after.  Buster didn't want to give his frame up. He said he could skate faster and with his eyes closed if he had the frame. Not sure ice skating with your eyes closed is a good idea, but Buster does like to add his own style to anything he does.  Danger is his middle name.

Buster and Milly

There is something about these two when they get together.  It's either fireworks with both yelling at that the other is a chatterbox, a bully or a meanie.  Or there is a beautiful kinship where playfulness and nurturing are the norm.  There are a lot of similarities in their personalities and it can be quite funny to watch sometimes, as Buster is not afraid of confronting Milly.  Yet every now and then Milly likes to mother him and he loves this type of attention and time she spends with him.

Brown belt

 

 

 

Book Week

Let me introduce you to this year's chosen characters for Book Week - Robecca Steam from Monster High and Steve from Minecraft.