Professional Photos

I've been wanting to get some professional photos of Kaisha since she turned 2 but have never got around to it. I'm not a huge fan of the standard studio type shots so was looking for something a bit different. On thursday we spent the morning at the beach having a ball while Laura Koolik took photos. It was so much fun! We had a tea party and played in the waves. Lucky for us it was a record high of 27 that day. There is a sneak peak on her website, so click here to see them. I can't wait to see the rest, I'm sure they will all be amazing.

Swimming

Every Saturday at 7:20 Nick wakes Kaisha up to take her to swimming lessons. She comes bounding into our bed and changes into her togs and then her and daddy go off to "learn to swim" while I get a sleep in. YAY! The lesson is from 8:00 to 8:30. This week Kaisha had new togs which she was extra excited about. At the lessons they learn to slide into a pool, jump in, pull themselves out, kick to the edge and that sort of thing. We enrolled Kaisha as she has always been fairly wary of water, to the point that she won't get into the bath, sometimes for months on end. (We did wash her, but it involved a lot of screaming). It has definitely helped and she now loves lolling in the bath for ages. Hopefully this summer she will also be more confident when we go to the pool or beach too.

Sleepover

Click here to see photos on Louise's blog of Kaisha's first sleep over at Reubens. Because Kaisha wasn't around I didn't really take any photos this weekend so don't really have anything to post on. We had a lovely date night on Friday night and it was very strange to come home and not go and check on the gorgeous sleeping beauty. Of course we didn't really sleep in as we are so used to being woken up but we did enjoy not being dragged out of bed. On sunday morning when Kaisha arrived at my bedside at about 5am her words were "Mama, on Friday's I go to Reubens". So I guess she will be coming back this week too Louise!

My First Skirt

I can sew!!! I made Kaisha a skirt on thursday and am very proud of myself. The last time I made a skirt was when I was about 13. First I sewed the right side of the fabric to the wrong side. Once I had unpicked that I sewed the top together. When I finally finished the skirt I never wore it and declared I would never sew again. Well I kept that promise until last year.
I followed the tutorial here and only modified a couple of things. I was making it from 2 fat quarters so I had to have side seams. My lengths were shorter than hers and I will make them even shorter next time as the skirt is a little bit long. Also I made the ruffle part longer so that it would be rufflier.
PS Her hair only looks red here cause of the reflection of the door, its actually brown with blonde streaks.

We have had a very uneventful week here, which has been lovely. Kaisha is finally well, hardly coughing at all, and is in a much better mood because of it. It rained alot this week so the garden has shot up. One of my bean climers grew 1metre in one day! It has also turned lovely and warm, yay! Yesterday the temp was a very comfotable 25 C and last night we didn't even have the heater on so I would guess it will be hotter today. Kaisha and Nick have gone off to their swimming lesson this morning so I have my blissful hour of time to myself. Kaisha loves swiming lessons and is getting braver all the time. She now goes under a lot and sometimes tries to swim and jumps into the pool, with lots of encouragement of course!
Nick and Kaisha with her hair in bobbles - so cute!

Kaisha had her first haircut yesterday. The bribe was a lollipop (sucker for the Americans). I did take the camera but we ended up with her sitting on my knee and me singing nursery rhymes to keep her calm so no photos were taken. It was just a trim of the ends because they were so scraggly and tended to knot really badly. It now looks curlier that ever! She has never had a lollipop and as we were walking to the car after she said to me in frustration "I can't eat it mama". So I had to break it up so she could eat it. Don't think we will be giving her one of those for a while yet.


This is a photo of Kaisha cooking. Yes her stove is the rubbish bin and the food is prawn crackers from the thai takeaway place. I have really cute video of this so will try and remember to buy a cord so I can download it.

Sunday Photoshoot

Baking

After visiting Louise on friday and seeing all her baking efforts I got inspired. It helped a lot that Reuben was entertaining Kaisha so I didn't have my usual little "helper" to interfere.

Lemon stars, chocolate wheaten hearts, snickerdoodles, and cookie teddy bears and teapots.