It has been raining quite a lot at Badplaas recently. Not great weather for children to be playing outside. So you can imagine that when the sun eventually did come out (just barely), it was all systems into overdrive to get little legs some exercise.
My boy had a wonderful time expelling excess energy and I used the opportunity to practice panning and focusing “on the go”
Round and Round we go
Into the River
Splashing in mud puddles
This year we will not be spending Christmas with family. We will be going to Badplaas to be with friends instead. My sister in law and I decided that we would let the cousins have a mini Christmas celebration yesterday, so they could open presents and have some Christmas fun together. They get on so well and really love being together. The kids spent the entire day in the pool
while Tash and I sat and enjoyed our purple drinks.
When it got too cold for them to swim anymore, we got them out and let them pull Christmas Crackers and open their presents from each other.
They each got the Ice Age DVD. We let them go and watch their new DVD and eat cupcakes for supper while we went back outside and pulled our “adult” Christmas Crackers. For those of you who know me, you’ll know that I do not smoke. I never have and never will and think it is a disgusting stinky habit – not for me. And thus my absolute amusement at the shock and horror reaction from friends on the photograph of me with my “Cracker Stash” holding Tash’s cigarette.
Despite how it appears, I’m actually not pickled. I was desperately trying to look like I actually know how to hold a cigarette properly and Tash was almost hysterical watching my efforts. It took about 5 tries before she got a shot that was just about in focus.
