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18/52

“A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”
 
Mowgli: In bliss climbing steps.
Coco: Is growing cheekier by the day.
Juju: Is pretending to be a butterfly.
 

A glorious Autumn day.

A meander around the Melbourne Botanical Gardens with family.

Chasing two cheeky toddlers around the duck pond.

A little girl flapping like a butterfly.

A picnic lunch.

A GREAT day!

(Now only five weeks behind in The 52 Project. I may have to bombard you with photos to catch up. I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.)


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16/52

“A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Juju: She is growing up too quickly.
Coco: He has moved away from his toilet obsession and now loves sinks.
Mowgli: Chilling out with a strawberry milkshake. (For once he is leaving my poor boobs alone!)
 

Up the street from our house is a crusty coffee shop with a beaten-up caravan in the back garden that all my children love to play in.

They make the worst coffee ever, but I sometimes take the kids so I can have a break from the local park. The twins are running me ragged these days.

Inside this funky vintage caravan they’re contained. I only have to worry about them falling off the sink, slamming their fingers in the cupboard doors, pushing each other down the caravan step or eating bark!

I’m five weeks behind posting photos for Jodi’s fabulous 52 project and it’s crazy how much the weather in Melbourne has changed in that time.

In this photo my babies were barefoot and running wild. Now its wintercoats, beanies and scarves.


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The Happy Forest

On the weekend, Kate Berry took us to her “top secret happy place” in the forest for a photoshoot.

And yes Kate, it has now become one of our  happy places too.

It was so peaceful we could actually hear the autumn leaves falling from the trees. Looking up into the pine trees was breathtaking.

So much so, that afterwards we ended up boondocking for the night.

These are some of Kate’s photos that I have lifted from her website – they were so beautiful I couldn’t wait to share them.

Kate, you rock. And if anyone is looking for a photographer in Sydney or Melbourne, check out hellokateberry!

P.S. How Brady Bunch do we look in these photos? I wish every day was all giggles and hoot. I could live without the whingeing.

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15/52

“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Coco: This is what happens when you turn your back on him for ten seconds.
Mowgli: Another happy little Vegemite.
Juju: Still wearing “that” tutu and she has now added a tiara to her get-up.
 

I’m about 3 weeks behind in my posts for the 52 project.

Life at the moment is chaotic, its exhausting, its relentless. But there are always magical moments, even on the very worst days.


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14/52

“A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Juju: Proud of her “pink” crown.
Mowgli: More interested in eating off the stickers.
Coco: Wasn’t quite sure what to do with his. He attempted to flush it down the toilet but was put on the right track by his big sister.
 

One of the rare days when I managed to do craft with the kids and it didn’t end in disaster.


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13/52

J 13-52 (Medium)“A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Coco: Loves nothing better than playing with his sister’s tea set.
Juju: Still obsessed with her “rose” tutu. If she could sleep in it she would.
Mowgli & Coco: Curious little troublemakers.
 

I’m really behind posting our weekly photos for the 52 Project. Or posting any of the blog pieces I have floating round in my head.

As I explained to a friend in an email this morning, the twins wake up at 5.30 am (4am this morning) full of beans and literally do not stop until they hit the sack at 7pm.

They climb and destroy and climb some more. They think its hilariously funny to climb onto tables and throw things off, and to pull my hair or poke me in the nose with their sharp finger nails (which they will not let me cut).

When they’re not climbing or pulling hair, they’re wrestling each other or fighting over toys or terrorizing their sister who gleefully retaliates by trying to strangle them with ribbons or poke them with her fairy wand.

I’m just exhausted by my kids.

I’m counting down to July when, fingers crossed, we will finally hit the road in our Airstream.

I’m overdue for a new adventure.


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12/52

Mshoes6 “A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Juju:”You can’t catch me.”
Mowgli: Red shoes. He hasn’t stopped playing with the velcro.
Coco and Juju: Wearing in their new shoes.
 

I’ve been conscious of not buying any new stuff. Our road trip is just a few months away now and we will have just one drawer each for storage.

The kids already have so many clothes and toys and Juju only ever wants to wear the same tattered pink tutu anyway.

But I think decent shoes are really important. And there’s something magical about kids jumping around in brand-spanking new shoes. (Of course Juju’s had to be pink!)

52 Project link love: How does this family with 5 kids make it look so fun?

Linking in with Jodi


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11/52

IMG_1284 “A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Mowgli: He still  doesn’t eat much but he knows how to use a fork.

Coco: “I’m not sharing my bike for any girl.”

Juju: Proud as punch now she knows how to ride a scooter.

52 Project link love: How incredible is this portrait of father and son?


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Cabin Fever

We’ve just had our first weekend escapade in Wallabee.

We stayed at a camp ground in Sorento, where we were rained in.

My better half went fishing with friends at the crack of dawn. That left me to entertain two hyperactive one-year old’s and their fiesty big sister – in 17 square meters of space.

Two words to describe it. Cabin Fever.

We were joined by three of our friend’s children who were camping nearby. Luckily I brought along an iPad.

We survived the weekend. Just.

So we’re planning to do this for a whole year? With three kids?

What are we thinking?


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10/52

moggy1052“A portrait of our children, once a week, every week, in 2013.”

Mowgli: Our cuddly koala is still teething.
Juju: She gets harassed by her brothers so much these days, nothing seems to phase her. And yes, that’s Morgan pulling her hair, chewing on a tube of Bonjela. That stuff just doesn’t work.
Coco: Thought he was very clever putting these glasses on and off, a remnant from Juliette’s second birthday party.

It has been a stinking hot week here in Melbourne.

So hot I have barely taken any photos. So hot I can’t remember anything we’ve done.

All the kids have been hot and grizzly.

And Mama bear even more so.

I tried hard to visit some of the other 52 projects this week but only managed a dozen. I especially loved Maltida’s way of exploring the rain / these loving sisters / and Milla plum’s obvious love of the snow.

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