Crumpled Home

(on the way to school)

Dad: You’re brining your ammonite fossil?

RJ: Yeah. I want to show it for news.

Dad: Be extra super careful with it… Most kids don’t get to bring ammonites to school. Know why?

RJ: Because they’re really hard to find?

Dad: Yep… but mostly because their parents know they are going to drop them.

RJ: I think there’s a rule. You can drop them one time, and that’s okay, but drop them two times and you’re out. No more fossils for you.

(while getting ready for school)

RJ: … But I need to wear all grey!

Mum: You can wear your grey tracky pants and a grey t-shirt.

RJ: That’s GRAAAAAY-TE! (runs off amidst a gale of giggling)

(walking home from school)

RJ: I have a girlfriend, you know.

Dad: I didn’t know that.

RJ: Yeah. She’s at my other school.

Dad: That’s cool. What’s her name?

RJ: L. But we don’t talk much.

Dad: Really?

RJ: Actually. She doesn’t talk to me… and I don’t talk to her either… but she’s still my girlfriend.

(Working on a project on Snow Leopards in the Himalayas)

Mom: The Himalayas are really craggy and sharp looking because they’re young mountains.

Lorian: How old are they?

Mom: Well, they happened when India crashed into Asia. That started happening about 50 million years ago and it’s still happening. The mountains are still growing.

Lorian: 50 million years? So was that in the 1960′s?

A big couple of weekends… Mum took LR and her best friend to go and see the stage performance of Mamma Mia, RJ and Dad spent the day building projects and eating sushi, RJ catches a birthday party with his friend C., and Dad took RJ and LR off to the aquarium!

LR and I. are SUPER excited to be seeing the live performance of Mamma Mia!

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The trip to Rotto with the school was full of all sorts of events, beyond the amazing LR learning to ride. A series of school competitions and activities took place on Saturday, despite the massive bursts of rain that showered down throughout the day!

RJ explores Longreach Bay on a final wander around the island.

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On Tuesday, Mum and LR went on an excursion with the Year 2 class to plant and restore a local area.

We planted spinifex, knotted club rush, coastal daisy, fan flower, snake vine, and cotton heads. All these plants would once have grown on the site before rabbits and people destroyed the local vegetation.

Find out the whole story and see more pictures at Cottesloe Coastcare!

(while eating breakfast)

Dad: So guys, what should we get mum for Mother’s Day?

LR: I’ve already made something for her at school!

RJ: So did I!

Dad: Great! So what about something from all of us?

RJ: We should get her a toy because grown-ups like toys.

Dad: Umm… Sure. Got anything in mind?

RJ: How about… a toy goat!

RJ made a rhinovirus this morning and took it to school for news.

His teacher met him at the door, and said “RJ! That’s lovely! Is it a sea urchin?” He said “No, it’s a rhinovirus. Those are protein spikes. They get in your nose and make you sneeze and cough. We all had them this weekend.”

It’s going to be a long 13 years of school…

RJ created his own rhinovirus, complete with protein spikes.

Look out Quintilian, now there are two…

RJ had his very first day at “big kid school” yesterday. After striding through the door and surveying the room, he wandered up to a table, got to work on an activity and promptly dismissed Mum.

Is there such a thing as being too independent?

RJ and LR arrive at school for their first day back after Autumn break.