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

{inspired by Jodi}

 

{Harper} She suggests making cookies and cakes just to lick the beaters.

{Finn} A visit to Cockington Green. Finn was fascinated by the miniature buildings and moving trains.

The B-sides (because two photos seems a little minimalist for me…)

{Finn's favourite section at Cockington Green. A street with a garbage truck. We came back to this spot at least five times}

{a treat to end Mummy and Finn time.}

{An eagerly anticipated parcel was left on our doorstep earlier this week. Inside, a book fetauring photos from last year's Documenting Delight project. It is great to have the slideshow but nothing beats having your photos in print. This book is my gift to Finn and Harper.}

{the first person I wanted to share the book with}

{playing co-operatively, speaking pleasently towards each other and being kind. watching this little play scene evolve was the highlight of my week}

{....it was short lived. Harper's "That's mine" face/scream}

{"Eli these are my new shoes. Look they have butterflies on them!"}

{imaginary binoculars on, ready to spot Daddy riding home from work}

{"Stop Finny!"}

{On our way to the movies with her dear friend Lily (yes another movie. there's a Disney Princesss film festival on at our local cinema. I'm totally indulging her inner princess), I needed to scope out a location for a photoshoot for a friend. I wanted to take a few test shots to see if this park would work. Never the one to go along with any posed shots, Harper was on to me. Look at the disinterest on her face. gah! }

{not just a movie but Kate and I took the girls out for lunch too. So decadent!}

 

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and sixty six {completed}

Being the last post for 2012 I was planning to write a big reflection on what this project has meant to me. However  the more I thought about it the more I came to the conclusion I don’t think I will fully understand what this project has given me until I put the camera down and live a few days without needing to secure an image to represent our day.

I do know that right now I am happy that I made it to the end (minus the six week gap in the middle) and also relieved that it is over. While I am glad I took a leap, committed to the project and blogged about it, today I am a tad bit excited that tomorrow I will wake up and not need to take a photo. Look, I probably will take a photo, but I don’t have to and that feels oh so good.

So that’s it. Right now I feel happy, excited, relieved and proud. Reflecting and processing it all will come on another day. Today I looked at every image I took in this project and I smiled. That’s all I needed today.

Thank you to my dear family, friends and fellow Documenting Delighters for following along. Your support encouragement, inspiration, advice and thoughtful comments have meant so much to me.

Happy new year lovely ones. xx

*A little slideshow of the year. I would have loved to have select an Australian song to accompany it but I had to go with a Feist track because the kids and I adore this song.
Enjoy.

 

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and sixty five {right now, part 3}

The last instalment of the right now posts. You can find part one and two here and here.

As 2012 comes to a close this is Harper and Finn right now…

Finn James 4 years, 9 months

[LIKES]

Riding his scooter (fast), acting out fire emergencies (a la Fireman Sam), lego (or “big boy lego” as he calls it), learning about numbers and letters, making homemade pizzas with Daddy, crafting with Mummy, watering the garden with the hose (just like a real Fireman), spending time with our extended family, reading, drawing, being clean, special treat night and eating lychees.

[DISLIKES]

People touching, washing, brushing or cutting his hair, being interrupted whilst playing, meals with brown rice and dressing himself.

Harper May 3 years, 1 month

[LIKES]

Doing things “as a family”, fairy tales, princesses, making up her own songs, giving and receiving affection, dancing, breastfeeding (still….), role-playing in the play kitchen, having her hair brushed, playing with her dolls and teddies, seeing real babies, playing with her cousins and eating cherries.

[DISLIKES]

Having baths, sleeping, going to daycare on Fridays, wearing shoes or socks and eating mushrooms.

Documenting delight: three hundred and sixty four {window}

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and sixty three {backyard pool}

After a cool and rainy Christmas in Mittagong we returned to sunny weather in Canberra. Today we enjoyed having nowhere to go by catching up on some housey jobs and watching the kids getting in and out of the pool for most of the afternoon. Summer days have hit and it feels good.

My wild child, Harper May flicking her unkept hair around. Most of my favourite photos of Harper from this project have Harper sporting unruly, wavy, unbrushed hair. While she does look pretty with her hair in cute hairties it doesn’t really reflect her personality like her hair does in these photos. This is Harper; wild, spirited, fun and cheeky.

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and two {left over gingerbread house}

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and sixty one {fireman at work}

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and sixty {happiness on christmas day}

{testing out harper's new wooden cake}

{can you feel the excitement?}

{happy finn. I don't think there is anything better than experiencing christmas with children.....well apart from experiencing it AS a child that is ;) ) 

{present smash hit: one fireman sam helment that plays the theme song over and over and over.....}

{delicious christmas lunch}

{so who can read the cracker joke for me?}

{what do you do when it is too cold and wet to burn off your christmas lunch with backyard cricket? you raid the dress up box and dance to karaoke as a family of coarse!}

Documenting Delight: day three hundred and fifty nine {stills from our christmas eve}

 

1.       Waking up to raindrops on our fruit trees. The rain has been a long time coming.

2.       In charge of rolling the biscuit dough. Harper did a little more dough eating, than rolling.

3.       The last book in our Christmas Book Advent. Finn asked if there will be a new book advent after Christmas day. His love for books is intense.

4.       A Christmas Eve tradition: new pjs and a new Christmas book each. A Christmas Tree for Pyn is set to be a new Christmas favourite.

5.       Christmas colours special treat. The small chocolate bar to the right was given to Finn and Harper earlier in the day by our sweet next door neighbour. At the time I said that they couldn’t eat it straight away but they could have it after dinner. Finn was so concerned that someone would take his bar that he wrote his name in permanent marker over the wrapper and hid it in the fridge. Yes, he is going to be that kind of label- everything- in -the fridge -flatmate in 15 years time.

6 & 7. The ice-cream trance.

8. Another storm approaching.

9. Safe and loved.

10. Ready for Christmas morning.