Gymnastics Badge Test 23 June 2007

Michaela and Bianca had to be up early on Saturday morning for their badge tests. Michaela did Level 1 and Bianca did level 3. The concentration can be seen on Michaela's face. They both love the limelight! They test them on body strength, co-ordination, suppleness and balance.





At Bianca's level they start introducing a basic floor routine.

Hockey 10 May 2007

The girls love hockey. These were taken at a match against Kenridge Primary on 10 May 2007.Michaela only started this year and has already played in two matches.

Dad and his toys!

We all know that Dad's love their toys...... This is the latest piece of machinery that Adrian has to amuse himself with, and has an added bonus : we get to make a living from it.

The rest of the family

These are are our first babies! We have had Columbus (Black & White), Enterprise (Ginger) and Loverboy (grey) since they were born in 1995.

Columbus and Adrian have a special relationship. They do "cat aerobics" - next time you visit ask them for a demo!


Sasha is the bold one of the two labs. She loves water and when we got the jungle gym she was determined that she wasn't going to miss out on the fun...

Stitch is more cautious... the blue shell is their swimming pool. If it's filled with water, Sasha will lie in it but Stitch will only put a paw in the water.

The latest chapter is hamsters. Bianca used her birthday money to get her hamster, Hamsty.

Not long after, we adopted Julie's hamster so now Michaela has her own hamster, Hammy!

Oh toothless one!

Loose teeth seem to bother Michaela! When her top front teeth started getting loose she made it her mission to get them out asap. Eventually the first one came out and the next day the second one followed suit. I have to be honest and tell you that the poor tooth mouse forgot about the second tooth! I felt terrible. Luckily we devised a plan and convinced her to look in her room because maybe the mouse had made a mistake - he wasn't use to coming to the same house two nights in a row. Michaela was a happy camper once again! But she was still on the loose tooth mission....She had two loose teeth at the bottom. So at aftercare she pulled both of them out : one fell in the drain and the other one got lost. She was going to sleep out at a friend so wasn't even interested in writing the mouse a letter.

So now we have our own chipmunk! 4 teeth in 1 week!

Ouskip - Easter weekend

We couldn't get place at the Berg River for the Easter weekend so decided to try Ouskip. This camp site is by Melkbosstrand on the West Coast. We'd never been there before so wasn't sure what to expect. Pam and I took the trailer and the kids - the men were going to come through later that evening. Well, when we got there the wind was howling and then lo and behold if I hadn't given the key to the locks on the trailer to Maree along with my house keys! This was not a good start to a long weekend! Eventually we managed to get a bolt cutter. Pam and I managed to get the tents up even though the wind was gushing. The campsite wasn't too wonderful. There was a lot of sand and you feel as if you've been put in a cage because there are so many squashed together. The drama didn't end there. When Anton eventually arrived; he was in the wrong car! Pam had pack all their stuff that we couldn't squeeze into the trailer. Anton was suppose to go home and switch cars! So Pam had to go back home to get the right car. Juliana decided not to come through because Julie had an asthma attack. We nearly blew away that night.

The site or wind didn't stop the kids - they had a ball. There was lots of space to ride the bicycles. There was a very nice park and a lovely huge pool. The pool was only open to the campers so it wasn't overcrowded. Juliana brought Julie through during the day but decided that she wasn't going to sleep there. So she drove in and out everyday. Thankfully it's only 30mins from home. We decided to stick it out because the kids were having so much fun. The wind eventually settled and then it wasn't too bad. It's not a place that I would recommend to anyone or that we would go to in a hurry again but it was an adventure non the less.

Berg River 9 - 11 March 2007

We're off to the Berg River Resort again. Pam and I went through early on the Friday morning because the campsite is first come first serve. We wanted to make sure that we got the same site as the previous time. So the two of us went through and pitched the tents. Pam then spent the rest of the day there and I returned to Cape Town to fetch the rest of the stuff including Adrian and the kids. Yes - all this stuff is just for a weekend. But then with camping I suppose it doesn't really matter if you're going for a weekend or a week. This time we took some tubes with us. A friend of Adrian's gave us four Land Rover tubes which are perfect. The kids were up and down the whole time.


We were four families. Miikha and Tiago are both in Grade 2 with Bianca. Tiago was the only boy amongst 7 girls - this didn't slow him down. Maree and Eve joined us for the day. The Millards also came through for the day and then Courtney stayed over.
Most people never pictured Adrian as the camping type. Well, thank goodness there's electricity on site :

So much sun and fun is just too much for some .....