I'm a big kid now.

Scarlett had quite a week. As well as the annual book week parade, in which each student dresses as their favourite character from a book, Scarlett also had to lead the school assembly in a group of 6 kindergarten students. While I missed the parade, I did help make the 'costume' - Scarlett went as Slinky Malinki, rapscallion cat - and I did manage to sneak out of work to see her on stage at the assembly (no pix - I know, I'm a terrible mother). She delivered her lines with confidence and panache, and also had to stand up when the weekly awards were announced to receive a merit award. As if this wasn't all too much for me, watching her sing the school song soon had me in floods. I'm not ashamed to say I was the only parent in the room crying.
This week Scarlett has also jumped up 3 reading levels. She absolutely loves reading and keeps saying "Aunty Maria used to read all the time, so do I," as if this is a good thing. She absolutely loves reading to Flo as a distraction from pinching, hitting or shouting at her.
The other new craze in our house is for Scarlett to give Flo piggy backs. Here they are with Gabe and Charlie from next door.
Flo continues to create hilarity and dismay with her various toilet arrangements. Some days she's brilliant at using the loo all day, the next, you'd think she'd never seen the inside of an Armitage Shanks showroom before.

This weekend is the Hallmark holiday, Father's Day. The GFC has called a halt to our usual practice on Mother's and Father's day of buying each other a spa treatment. Instead the girls made Rob this beautiful painting which was presented to him today, as he is at work tomorrow (actual Father's Day). the girls and I will be spending an oestrogen-fuelled day with Julia, Ella and Tess, as Richard is out of town.

Finally a word from our sponsor - Rob.

Whilst Kate says that due to the GFC we have suspended spa treatments for the year I did see that Kiri Te Banana (one of the founding members of Bananarama) was perfroming at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, so I proposed that we reinstate the giving of extravagant gifts from our children for hallmark holidays and took myself off to see the glorious national treasure that is Ms Te Kanawa. Anything at the Opera House is a perfect evening but Kiri was, unsurprisingly, superb. I liked the whole show but as with all the times I've seen her, the highlight is the encore when she sings O mio babbino caro, her signature song used in the film A Room with a View. Heavenly.