Weekend in Pictures

Sunday, September 29th, 2013

Our Weekend in Pictures:

Firday morning before school, Chaney drew a picture.  I'm sure that you recognized that she drew herself and her kindy teacher.  You will also notice the underground dirt and the grass with roots. 

Friday morning on the way to school.  The last day in their winter school uniforms.  I realized in all the pictures I had of them in their school uniforms, they were wearing their maroon "jumpers." (pullovers)  Next time they are at school it will be the 4th term and they are required to start wearing their summer uniforms.  I just spent $300 on summer uniforms...

Getting goofy.

Charlie attempting to escape.

Friday evening. A wild red and green parrot on the house behind us.  The wild birds are amazing here.



On Friday evening, Erich and I enjoy an adult beverage on the back patio and Chaney decided to bring her markers outside too.

Saturday afternoon we went to Questacon, a kid science museum.  This is a thongaphone.  No, your underwear isn't calling you. You use a flip flop (known as a thong here) to hit tubes and it produces music.

Charlie surrounded by mirrors.

 

Cheese!

After the museum we walked around a bit on the way to the restaurant. 

On the way to the restaurant, the kids have a race past the statue they have named Bob. 

At the restaurant.  Charlie is pointing out the picture of a Koala.  This restaurant had American license plates on the walls.  We saw several states including Louisiana and Alabama.  But not Missouri. 

Sunday afternoon playing in the side yard.  The trucks are hauling the rocks around. 

Mommy's glass of wine.  What a great weekend!
(And by the way, this weekend we also did a lot of work around the house.  But I didn't think you wanted to see pictures of me in my PJs, hair a mess, while I unpack boxes and arrange closets. Believe me, you don't want to see that.)

My Random Thoughts and Observations...

• They don't call it a kitchen counter.  They call it a bench. This one took me a while to figure out.  I had begun to think it was odd that everyone had benches in their kitchen where they prepared food and placed their grocery store bags. 
• They don't call them coloring pages.  They call them coloring ins.
• Just like in the U.S., the kids started speech therapy on Friday.  The therapy place (the only one in town that takes our American insurance) is 25 minutes away and I will have to pick the kids up from school early once a week.  In 2014 they are opening a small office closer.  So maybe we can move closer then.  It should be interesting to see how the therapy goes.  They usually do therapy once every fortnight (two weeks) or even once a month. The rest of the therapy is done at home by the parent. We will be going to therapy once a week.  Luckily the twins can be seen at the same time.  Also, they pronounce their vowels differently and they don't pronounce the R's at the end of words.  Car is pronounced "ca."  Go ahead and say it out loud. 
• When my sister Allison and I were little, we used to have these red toy phones.  They had a long wire that ran between the phones and we could talk on them and really hear each other!  The wire was long enough we had one phone in my room and the other in her room. We loved those phones!  The other day in Kmart, I stumbled across these:

  

  I had to get them!  Charlie and Chaney each have one on in their room and they LOVE them too.