Piper Twelve

We caught up with Piper around a week after her real birthday. Things were pretty busy at both ends. Piper had a party with peers at that time, plus she was doing a few other things on top of that. We had things on as well. But we had our chance when Bec dropped the kids off last Saturday afternoon. We were able to squeeze in the rituals of present opening, trip to Savers, iced chocolate at Greensborough, and blowing out the candles. We all made it a special time and topped it off with the Ghibli movie, "Spirited Away". Wow, one more year and she'll be a teenager.

Jethro Seven

The venue for Jethro's birthday family celebration was at a community go-cart event near Upway Station in the Dandenongs. We all enjoyed watching kids (and big kids) racing down the slope for a few hours. Jaz now wants to be in it next year. For lunch we left and had the rest of the celebration in a nearby park. This also proved a perfect venue for the things we did (soccer and frizby). We gave Jet a special fold out card of a pirate ship with our gifts to him. As we were about to leave, Simon gave the three kids a whole load of more presents (last photo) so they all scored. We as a family we seem to do the gifting on a massive scale and that ought to be reworked into a proper balance. Enough said...

Brunch with Daniel

Last weekend we had the pleasure of Daniel's company for a few hours. It is always good to catch up with him. His new place has a swimming pool at the back and an expansive view at the front. We shared a brunch at Centreview Cafe Greensborough as always.

Whittlesea Woodcraft

Woodcraft at Whittlesea PS started steadily with a flexible start followed by a number of motorbike kits and kangaroo kits for those who got in early. Peter has had to keep the assembly simple to minimise the calls for help. It seemed to go well for the right number of people coming in. At this stage Peter is not sure what idea he will travel with next... a house shape?

Tallarook Minecraft

This was the second time Peter had prepared wooden Minecraft 'Steves' for woodcraft at Tallarook. The kids were quick to understand the assembly and some pushed it into new creations. They had the opportunity to colour in Steve's body if they wanted to. The Bondcrete glue continued to do wonderfully well in the warm weather.

Peter's Birthday

 Peter is going to have a few parties and this is just one of them. We met half way and had a precious time with the Funks. The birthday gifts were special little heartfelt gifts from the young ones, two pocket books for note taking, and a basket of fresh produce from the Funk garden... very special. The pictures say it all.

Tallarook Woodcraft 2016 Commences

Peter's first woodcraft club at Tallarook Primary School was about free range creating from what was available: "Make anything you want." The material glued together ranged from twigs and bark found in the school year to children's coloured wooden blocks. Peter is always on the look out for throw-away play blocks; other blocks were docked from pine lengths as usual. The creations by the children were impressive. At the end of the fifty minutes there was hardly anything left in the flat trays and the glue was almost spent.