Halloween 2007: Bryn & James at Wil's...

The Pea Pod Pixie demonstrates his insatiable appetite for Green Worms...







Casper The Friendly Ghost Tolls the Bell, Pumpkin aloft

Fun with the boys...

Just hanging out with the gang at baby yoga
L-R Tenzin, Bryn, Rowan












At the studio shoot with the blue ball














My favourite cousin Noah came with us to the studio!













Now Daddy's got the ball and I've got a stool to climb!

When I'm One...

Here's where I live now, with my Mummy and Daddy...













...but when I turn one next week, here's where I'd like to go. Amazon Rain forest, here I come!

On the Other Side of the Lens...

Some recent(ish) Mummy and Baby pics...

1. at Kulcha














Smoke ceremony with Nyoongar (local Aboriginal) Elders, Pinjarra (Bryn is wrapped in a sarong to protect him from smoke and mosquitos)















Feeding Bryn pawpaw (first solids) on Sunday

Those Were The Days, My Friends: Musical Nostalgia Pour Moi...

Rummaging through my photos online I found the cover for two CDs, reminding me of previous musical accomplishments: my choir (Ocean) and comedy duo (Bad Hair Day). Most days, they are both the furthest things from my mind- I continue to adore being mostly home with baby Bryn- but sometimes I long for the freedom to do something like that again!...

Letuce Eat, Sing & Be Merry (1)...

Bryn got stuck into the salad and some watermelon....and nearly ingested an alcohol-soaked hibiscus flower drink additive, at Emil's 1st Birthday picnic on South Beach lawn...


















At Olwyn's (Pinakarri Community) several weeks back...















With Wyndham, decidedly balder but equally cute at 4 months old, at Rhythmsong Camp 3 weeks back...


















Rhythmsong guest tutors Valanga Khoza (Melbourne ex-South Africa) and Rachel Hore ( Blue Mountains ex-Sydney, of Arram Aieda fame). I asked them to pose for another 'spontaneous' smooch over the breakfast table!

Sunflower Season...

Attracting bees













Bryn loves pulling the petals off the Sunflowers in a vase on the kitchen table











With Daddy touching the sunflowers out the front which self-seeded and popped up spontaneously

Picnic by the River...

On Saturday we headed for the Freo arts Centre again with Grandma Pam to hear Pascale's Piaf tribute. It was packed, so we ended up on the river in east Freo near Zephyr Cafe (ex Leeuwin Chewin). Bryn is seen here in his new purple floppy hat from his other Gran, Oma...

Sunflower City...

Doug cleaned the fishpond in the courtyard today...













which at the moment has an 'umbrella' of feral sunflowers in full bloom...

the bees have discovered it too!








Pretty soon, the parrots will arrive and snap off the sunflower heads with scissor-like precision (typically this is a late January phenomenon). Pink nd Grey Galahs, Twenty Eights (Port Lincoln Parrots) and sometimes Whiter-tailed Black Cockatoos and Rainbow Lorikeets...

for now, it's just the bees...

Bath Mouse...

Charlie Brown spotted a mouse in the outdoor bath when we arrived home this afternoon and in true Jack Russel spirit wouldn't leave it alone and had to be brought indoors. Poor wee rodent couldn't get out because of the slippery enamel sides, so I helped it to escape via the 'lizard' ladder (a grass tree stump)













In fact, there was also a lizard, a little gecko, in the bath. I'm not quite sure what mice and geckoes make of each other, but they took refuge in the same corner of the bath before I helped liberate them..

Hitchin' A Ride..

Bryn occasionally hitches a ride in the laundry hamper when it's full 9actually, it's a conveneient place for Mummy or Daddy to put him when on the loo or otherwise 'hands full' in the combined bathroom/laundry!













Helloooooo down there Brynnie, in your secret fist-sucking hideout!
















Peek-a-boo!

Never Too Young to Play the Piano

Bryn playing with Neil Moore, Simply Music Founder and Director, on visit to Perth for a Teachers' Conference on December 17











Never too young to play the piano! If we put Bryn on the piano stoll in his Bumbo, he bashes merrily away for a while on the digital piano!

"Hmmmm", ponders 24 week old Bryn

"Could this be our new home....Could this be where I'm living when I'm 6 months old, where I learn to crawl and run around?...
















....complete with view of the sea from front garden?...

















...Hmmmm", says the little sage to The Happy Buddha who looks over the pond in the garden of his only wee home so far, " I wonder, I do..."