The three of us during an outing to the Perth Museum.

Cyd posing on a meteriorite rock.

too tired---Ryan fell asleep on the bus on the way home.

A pensive moment.

Where's the fire????

So....do we look alike?

Cyd and girlfriends at a birthday party on Saturday.

Cyd doing a puppy dog impersonation. Party time over, time to go home. Poor me!!!

Boring mom/mum stuff.......

Okay, you've been warned. We have a housing inspection coming up so I decided to tackle some household chores that I've left for far too long, namely cleaning the ensuite bathroom to our bedroom. I leave the kids happily playing computer games and get started. I stop to check on them five minutes later and Ryan is gleefully giving the digital camera case a bath in the toilet bowl. Ryan is banished to his crib with a bunch of toys. Five minutes later Ryan has thrown all toys out of crib and is starting to whimper. I'm determined to get this job out of the way, but by the time I finish he's crying his poor little eyes out. Finally ensuite is clean and I put Ryan down for his nap, just as he falls asleep the phone rings and he's all wide awake again. I'm starting to feel a little flustered at this point so I fix myself a piece of toast with chocolate spread and a cup of tea to try and relax. I turn my back for a minute and find Ryan holding the toast with a nice even coat of chocolate all over himself. Ryan goes into the bath, gets all clean, wrapped up in a towel. Phone rings again, while on the phone Ryan wiggles out of my arms and goes to play with Cydney in the living room. Finish on the phone and go to retrieve my adorable naked little baby boy and notice something suspicious dangling from his rear end.....gross! Some days it's just one thing after another.

God's Will?

We saw the movie "Kingdom of Heaven" the other night. I enjoyed it, thought it was good and was very happy to see Orlando Bloom reclaim the masculinity he lost while making "Troy". I just have to vent on something though and that is how people can take their will and impose it on other people using God's name, as in "it's God's will". It's so sad because this is still happening today, look at Bush vs Osama, both are convinced they are doing God's will and are imposing all that comes with it on the world around them with a vengeance. It's just so annoying that all the differences people choose to get so dogmatic over (as far as religion goes) are those thought up by humans or human interpretation. How did we get so many different versions of "truth"? People are certainly entitled to their opinion, and even to their opinion of faith, but they are so not entitled to violently impose this on other people. To me, that's taking the name of the Lord in vain.

Cyd showing off her flower crown.

Boys and their toys!

Birthday Boy

Ryan with the new Hummer that daddy bought for them.

Culture Clash

I found these guys busking in downtown Perth, singing their hearts out in Japanese. Made me nostalgic for Japan and totally cracked me up.

School Holidays.

Cydney the Bumblebee and Ryan the Fireman. They usually have some kind of event in the city during School holidays, this time the theme was safety and community. Fun fun!

Tales of the Otori

I have a hard time getting into new authors. I absolutely love reading, but I'm quite picky about what I read, especially when it comes to fiction. Anyway, I just finished a trilogy called "Tales of the Otori" by Lian Hearn. I found it enjoyable, but it's main appeal to me was that it's a fantasy set in medieval Japan. I grew up in Japan, but since I can't read or write Japanese I never really had my curiousity satisfied on the folklore side of things, you know, with the Samurai and the Ninja and all that. It's kind of ironic, I end up learning about Japanese folklore from an Australian author, ha! Anyway, it was fun and I liked that the author sprinkled Japanese words and names throughout, it made me feel like I was an insider on the story since they all seemed so familiar.