Brisbane Flash Floods in Toowong

Brisbane has had some pretty unusual weather since the intense storm on November 16th 2008. The upside of this is that the drought is officially over. I took the children to see Perrin Park, which had turned into a lake. It was much more impressive right after school when the waters were really high. We rushed home, got changed, got the camera and came back to find a lot of it had drained down already. Still it was an unusual site that the children found exciting :-)

'How to put on a Shower Cap' by Oliver and Annabelle...l

Oliver and Annabelle mucking around with their shower caps after treating their hair for lice for about the 1000000th time. Yay!

More Leonard Cohen...

An excerpt from perhaps the best concert I have been to in my life thus far... Leonard is 75 years old here.

Happy 5th Birthday Annie-Rose!

Annie had her fifth birthday party in Anzac Park with all her friends from Prep. It was a great party.

Wheeeeeee it's a Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

We redeemed ourselves from taking off to Sydney for a grown-ups weekend to watch Dylan Moran live in concert and to see old mates and family (not saying any family members are old, mind ;-) by returning home with a Wii for the kids. Thanks Nick n Nikki!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxxxx

Here comes the sun, little darlings... :-)

This is Ben doing an amazing backyard blitz in a bid to get some sunshine back into our heavily overgrown lives :-) And the children built a fab fireplace outside that we used later that day for cooking marshmallows - a great success all round!

Look what I made!

This is Annie and Charlotte telling us about what they designed and made :-)

Annabelle learning to swim at UQ Little Fish Swim School

Annie is going really well at these lessons! This is a clip from earlier on, and she can now swim on her own. She points her toes most conscientiously when she kicks - it is quite cute!