27 June 2011

Mummy cuddles at the Humble Administrator's Garden

In between the floods of adoring people taking the boys' photos

Tires us out enough to find a less-popular garden

Before Miro pushes Tai in the pram

And we cool down in a tea house,

Miro drawing his first multi-subject picture!

(Two people driving in a car!)

26 June 2011

Miro's face on getting told off in the restaurant !

Watching the beloved boats on the canal

(And always wanting another ride!)

And playing with tealights at the tiny teahouse.

25 June 2011

World's best hot and sour potatoes!

24 June 2011

Lunch in a Balinese restaurant

Sees Miro experiment with rice wrapped in vine leaves,

After a morning of walking around steamy art nooks.

23 June 2011

First day in Shanghai

Miro has a little bit of trouble adapting to his Instant Celebrity status

And starts frowning when the camera comes out,

Showing his bottom or blowing raspberries!

Later, he loves his nounou

In the dark of his sheepskin floorbed

To the dim light of 80s comedies.

22 June 2011

Catching the aeroplane

At the exciting airport !

21 June 2011

Making soothing spotty cookies with Aunty Oosie

After the grandest tantrum in history.

20 June 2011

Kissing Rose

In Archie's garden.

19 June 2011

The birthday boy and girl -

Miro and Vicky Cristina Barcelona -

Turning Three, all dressed up

For their nursery rhyme party...

And watching Tai asleep in his carseat.

18 June 2011

Opening his birthday presents

That he helped pick himself

While Goo watches, first excited, then jealous!

17 June 2011

Miro is Three !

He spends the morning excitedly running around

The empty belly of a removalist truck...

And the afternoon taking his own photos,

Exiled in the sunny backyard.

(Miro's photos...)

16 June 2011

Packing the last of the boxes...

Miro insists on ritualistically packing Buzz,

And leaps off boxes into Daddy's arms.

15 June 2011

After the thrill of Buzz Lightyear for his birthday

Miro and Matai have iPad time, one each.

14 June 2011

Bubble earmuffs after Miro's bathtime love

Of lying in hot water up to his ears.

13 June 2011

Doing the dinosaur ROAR !

12 June 2011

Miro and Vicky love playing with James,

Running around the house screaming,

And watching Dino movies !

11 June 2011

As the toys slowly disappear into boxes,

The boys are left with what remains:

Cars, colouring in and stickers!

10 June 2011

One of the hardest things about packing the house when the boys are around

Is you keep turning around to find all the stuff you packed is back on the floor

And someone is using the box as a garage!

9 June 2011

Taking the car bed apart

As we pack up Miro's bedroom.

8 June 2011

Angry Orange on the Mypad at Din's.

7 June 2011

In the freezing winter house

Miro loves to lie up to the ears in his bubble bath

And then SPLASH !! like silly!

6 June 2011

Pre-bedtime conspiring to

Jump off the top of the bed

With wild abandon.

5 June 2011

Giggling with beloved Tomas over porridge and toast.

4 June 2011

Standoff !

With the crazy French kung-fu boy

Trying to pick on Tomas.

3 June 2011

Miro finds his spiritual home at the Montessori school...

He loves hammering nails into bits of wood.

And drawing great round buses on the chalkboard,

And playing with puzzles and scarecrows.

2 June 2011

Maia serving us a yummy lunch at Leura!

Followed by playing in the rocks and puddles and hanging branches,

Running up and down the bushwalk path.

1 June 2011

A day of being naughty to Matai

Until the bedroom sweetens him up !

31 May 2011

Big happy family

Walking back to the car

Through the Botanical Gardens in the rain.

30 May 2011

Running around the table at Kate's place!

29 May 2011

Watching the world go by

From Jet in the QVB.

28 May 2011

Miro spends his Saturday

Racing around on his new motorbike with Tai running along beside,

Reading books with Nanna,

And cooking his birthday cake,

Being bashfully delighted when it later emerges, thrice candled!

27 May 2011

Huggles with Nanna

In gratitude for his motorised, Eurovision-blasting, 5km-an-hour

3rd birthday present!