Firebirds!

It was Ed and Dodo's end of term ballet performance on Mon (02.07.07) and it was, as always, fabulous!!


Dodo's turn to be the Firebird.

Ed's turn!! Yes, 2 girls were chosen to be Firebird and it was our 2!! What a surprise!





My beautiful girls!

Down by the Riverside...

Just a few snaps of us at the Riverside this year! Check out the menacing clouds in the background!! Thankfully it held off for most of the weekend.

Saturday

Ed practicing her new skill, plate spinning!

A happy Bean with one of his packet of balloons!

Ta da!!

Yes, she can even do it on one leg!

A lesser spotted Daddy, off work on a WEEKEND??!!

And even on her finger......

Thanks to Dan for taking a photo with me in it for once!

2nd stage with cool arty structure!

Tween and his cool new glasses..

Bean is expecting a baby balloon!

And on the Sunday

Hmmmm, not as good as I could cook...

Engrossed in her new bubble blower.

Worshipping at the altar of caffiene and additives.

Checking out the instructions of the aforementioned bubble blower..

Summers here!!

It was a rare day today as all three children decided not only to play together but to actually stay at home in the garden rather than disappearing off somewhere!! So I had to get the camera out to record the event!
(To see any of the photos in a larger size, just click on them!!)

My daughter the poseur!

All three of 'em!


Surfer Dude'ette

Still my crazy Bean!!!



I love this one!


Tween and I like to call these "Emo on a swingset" kind of like Air on a G string but without the violins....

Look who's staying!

Yep, the GREAT news is, Gabby is staying with us!!! We love this little cutie and always thought it'd be hard to give her up, and thankfully with a little juggling on who adopted who, she was ours!!
So far Pixie seems fine with the idea of her being here. She still grooms Gabs sometimes, but I think she's stopped feeding her and hopefully now she'll see her as a friend and not her daughter. As long as that doesn't eventually lead to hissing and spitting!!!

May is here!

The little 2's school has an annual May dancing afternoon and we all thoroghly enjoyed it! The weather was stunning to the point where poor Daddy got sunburnt!
These photos were taken on mine and my friend K's phones, hence some are a bit blurry! Thanks to K for taking pics of my kids while taking pics of her own and thanks to L who took me some 'hard copy' photos which are gorgeous! (Now I need to get a new scanner!)
The general scene!

In the middle of the pic (curse my lack of zoom lense) is Bean and his friend L who were the representatives of Yr1 giving their posys of flowers to the May Queen. He was very proud and so was I!

Bean and L skipping back!

More skipping!

Excuse all the blobs, but with child protection issues I decided to make all the other children unidentifiable. Here's Ed looking thrilled to be being photographed.

Bean and his other partner K coming in to the field.

Bean and K.

Here comes year 3/4 and Ed and her partner!

Bean and K.

Way to hide behind a bunch of flowers Bean!! It was funny as we were all calling him and he was oblivious until K told him, turned him around and made him smile for us, bless that girl, she'll go far!

Ed and partner getting dizzy!