Lily

How cool is three? 42

How cool is three?

Today Lily turns three. Already! Blink and you’ll miss it, as they say. She’s the kid with the wild, unkempt hair, the mismatched socks, the too short pants, the three week old temporary tattoo,...

Lil-billy 6

Lil-billy

Phil is making tuna pasta for dinner (woo!) and I am about to take on a chicken casserole ready for tomorrow night. Amelia is sitting at the kitchen table sewing tiny socks for a...

Big house, big bed 24

Big house, big bed

That house is getting bigger and bigger. I know it’s not going to last, but I quite like the way the structure fills with the early evening sun and glows yellow, spilling fragments of...

Room to move 16

Room to move

We finally moved Lily’s great big chunky change table out of her room today and over to the nursery of a soon-to-be-born baby who will be living just a few streets away. It’s left...

Lily’s quilt 64

Lily’s quilt

My first ever quilt! I thought I would do a show and tell – because I so very rarely finish anything of this magnitude (and it’s only a crib quilt!). Actually, it’s been finished...

Shake it up 18

Shake it up

I’ve been getting super jealous of Pip and her photo shoot. It sounds like a dream come true. This afternoon I finally finished my small group of five rabbit/mice things and thought I might...

New doodle pen 11

New doodle pen

The kids are beginning to wake up earlier again – that’s the draw back to lighter, brighter, fresher mornings full of bird song, it’s the grating cry of “DAD! DAD! DAD! HOP ME UP!”....

Sucka 11

Sucka

There was a little Mr Mom moment in the kitchen this morning. I came out in the kitchen to find Phil cleaning Lily up after her breakfast with the vacuum cleaner! He looked at...