RJ has begun his grueling training regime for the year. “Spring” training got off to a great start when, at his first practice session, he managed to hit the ball directly into the face of his coach, standing several metres away. Not surprisingly, T-ball is now his favorite sport.
RJ at the bat, moments after giving the ball a mighty clobbering.
I had to stop at the quarterly photography market to try to find some filters and LR came with me. I left empty handed, but she walked out with this monster!
LR shows off the camera gear she picked up on the weekend.
(The reason the picture looks weird is that I shot this on film that expired 10 years ago, on a 30 year old camera, and I don’t have a scanner.)
(in the car on the way to school)
Dad: (starting an imagination game) So you two head down to the park one day and there’s something strange there that you’ve never seen before.
RJ and LR discuss exploring it, identifying that it’s an alien rocket ship, and finding the door.
Dad: You can’t find a door handle on the outside.
LR: So we run home and get some saws and come back.
RJ: And we grab an axe too!
LR and RJ: And we SMASH and CHOP the door open and run inside and steal the spaceship and fly it home!!!
(An unfortunately chirpy RJ appears at the counter ready for breakfast, with a dinosaur entourage.)
Dad: (blearily rubbing eyes) What is this? RJ and the breakfast full of dinosaurs?… Okay, what do you want to eat?
RJ: This dinosaur wants flies. You’d better get to work; they’re hard to catch and he needs a lot of them.
Dad: Okay. I’ll see what I can do. How about the others?
RJ: Meat. Lots of meat.
Dad: And you?
RJ: Just rice bubbles…
(half an hour later, RJ wanders past, arms still full of dinosaurs)
Dad: RJ, wouldn’t it be easier to carry them in something? A bag or a basket or something?
RJ: (yelling back) No! I don’t need to. They all get around on rocket boosters.
Dad: Wow! That’s so cool. Dinosaurs with rocket boosters.
RJ: No. It’s not really great, because they don’t have legs. That’s why they had the rocket boosters put on.
Last weekend, we took another trip down south — this time much shorter, but still lots of fun. We went exploring a Karri forest, visited a wildlife park and climbed some huge rocks.
Not siblings... Just friends. These are three of the many rescued joeys at the wildlife park.
(while eating breakfast)
LR & RJ: (singing) Five little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away…
Mother duck said, ‘Quack, quack, quack, quack,’
But only four little ducks came back…LR & RJ: Four little ducks went…
LR & RJ: Three little ducks…
LR & RJ: Two little…
LR & RJ: One…
LR & RJ: No little ducks went out one day,
Over the hills and far away…
Mother duck said, ‘Quack, quack, quack, quack,’
But only a fat little snake came back…LR: It was listening for the quacking noises.
RJ: And it ate ALL of them, even the mother.
On the weekend, some friends came over to play and brought a whole lot of lego with them. RJ spent a fair bit of time working on his building — carefully selecting pieces, refining the structure, musing over the benefits of different door designs…
After twenty minutes of hard work, he ended up with this: “The Head Chopping Off Building.”
Off with their heads!!!!
RJ: The visitor is wearing a helmet, but he’s still scared. It might not protect him….
Apparently he’s been paying a lot of attention to those documentaries on human migration, especially regarding the headhunter tribes in Indonesia.
RJ: I want some medicine too!
Dad: What’s that RJ? Medicine?
RJ: Yeah. I want some deer medicine too.
Dad: Do you mean… venison?
RJ: YEAH!
(Looking at LR’s new learning-to-draw book)
LR: That werewolf is really scary, daddy. I don’t like it.
Dad: Yeah, they made him pretty freaky looking.
RJ: I love werewolves. I like it when they hide.
Dad: Have you seen them hiding around here?
RJ: Yes. In the… in the kitchen.
Dad: In the kitchen?
RJ: Well they use their magic and turn into a tortoise, or vegetables, or magnets, or a picture… and… and…
Dad: Yeah?
RJ: (whispering) One time I saw him turn into a fridge.
RJ and Dad took a trip to the aquarium on the weekend. Lots of exploring, ten rides up and down in the lift, and a bit of confusion over which of the 10 sharks is really called, “Sharky”.
RJ introduces me to one of his best mates at the aquarium, "Sharky".
According to RJ, the most interesting thing in this tank was the equipment the staff uses to feed the fish.
Surprisingly, the lift is a big attraction with our kids. (Insert elevator music here).
The sea lions have gone! No more sea lions! We now have a HUGE coral reef tank instead.
Okay, we've seen everything, we're outta here, bye!!!
