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When our school gives us one days notice that Friday is ‘dress as a pirate day’ and we don’t have pirate costumes, so I decide the kids can just wear jeans and a striped top. Then after a super busy day for the whole family and a tiring night (the kind where my husband works...
The end of another project, documenting you at ages 5 & 8 in the January of 2015. Sometimes you are happy for me to photograph you & sometimes you let me know that you aren’t. Sometimes you don’t want to stop and wait long enough for me to take a portrait. I get that. So...
Day 25: Pete’s 38th Birthday. Day 26: Australia day. A rare moment to run outside on what was really a day of rain. Anouk in particular often climbs the hills hoist clothes line. An Australian icon & a childhood memory for many Aussie’s. They both climbed it & curiously looked over the fences into the...
This Summer has been the one where Ava will only swim in the deep end of a pool. She wants to be out where the water is way over her head. She no longer thinks it’s fun to swim where she can stand.
I’ve been watching Anouk drag kids chairs over to kitchen benches and bathroom sinks so she can stand on them to reach, since she was about 11 months old. So I keep thinking that surely by now she can reach everything in the house. But no. She still can’t reach the freezer… and that is...
This last part of our holidays is all about spending time playing. Putting Christmas presents like their new scooters to use. They wiz around, trying to show us how fast they can go. They are pretty fast. It’s a wonder their shadows can keep up.
I know it’s a cliché thing to say but it really does only feel like yesterday that we set out to buy Ava her first pair of school shoes. But it wasn’t yesterday, it was 3 years ago when Ava was 5. Buying Anouk her first pair of school shoes made it feel very real....
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