Category: Kids

Today Amy had some purple streaks put in her hair. They look really good and are just what she wanted. Can’t believe how grown up my baby is looking.

I’m quite happy for her to colour her hair as a way to express her individuality – much better (and less permanent) than a lot of other options.

Todays activity was a nature scavenger hunt. We went for a walk down by the lake to see what we could find. I was quite amazed what we saw – most of which I missed on this mornings walk.

There was the usual ducks and other birds…

but we noticed lots of different flowering plants….

and quite a few mushrooms…

After being bitten by mozzies and trudging through the grass we had a quick break before heading home.

The girls seemed to enjoy the activity and working together to find things, though we did have a few “moments”.

Camp Sisterly Love is now up and running. The relationhip between Amy & Christy has deteriorated to the extent that intervention is needed. We’ve got two weeks school holidays ahead so I am hoping desperately to repair things before they return to school.

Day 1

Yesterday we made friendship boxes (as seen on Alisa’s blog). We took plain white boxes…

and the girls decorated them…

They turned out great but I’m not sure what it says that’s Amy’s box is all about her, whereas Christy’s was about Sisters – which is more what I had in mind.

Their next task was to write a list of things they liked about each other and later  they purchased a gift for each other at the shop. They’ve been asked to add things like letters, cards, small presents to each others boxes – at least once a week.

Day 2

Today I challenged the girls to do a good deed for each other. Christy bought Amy a chocolate and included a note to say she’d make her a cup of tea to have it. Amy spent the day at a friends so word on her good deed yet!

Before Amy left we played a board game TOGETHER! I won, which was probably a good thing :-).