School's out...

Yesterday capped off the last day of term two for pre-school.
Today Isabelle finished up term two of swimming lessons, and is moving up to level four.
Apparently this winter is the busiest one the swim school has had in a while so next term starts on a different day with a different teacher (unless a spot opens up in one of Karen's classes).
Friday sees' the end of dance classes for term two as well. Although Issy didn't start at the very beginning of the year, she hasn't missed a class of dancing.
Or swimming.
Or school(almost, she went to school one day, but didn't stay).

Second week of the holidays, Issy and I are taking a road trip out to visit Ali. While out that way we are going to see snow, which Issy is so super excited about - and also visit Questacon and the National Dinosaur Museum. She can't wait and tells everybody about her upcoming holiday.

"It's raining it's pouring..."

Gumboots by the front door, ready for the puddle jumping that is happening a lot lately.

"Heap on the floor"

This is Issy's favourite song to sing along to in the car at the moment.
She calls it the "heap on the floor song".



Pre-school has been great. Issy has such a blast. She keeps asking why she can't go to school every day like some of the other schools we pass in our daily travels (primary and high schools) so I have put her name down for three days next year.
Swimming is also going really well. Still not a fan of jumping into the pool by herself, but getting there.

We re-arranged and organised our space a while back, and all of Issy's clothes were moved so she could reach them easily to help with her growing independence. She loves to dress herself and will do so four or five times a day if we are at home. Only problem is she will wear outfits not really seen in winter months and insists that she is not cold and is fine!
She is slowly working out that her outfit of choice will be altered if she isn't covered up, so is working with layers to keep the summer look but make Mama happy by being all covered up.

Issy has holidays coming up soon, and we will be heading down to visit Ali and Andrew who might get snow this year, or at least live a lot closer than we do, and Issy cannot wait.

Swimming

When Isabelle first started swimming lessons, she was wearing a three-layer back bubble.
Today she is down-grading to a two-layer bubble.

There's a bunny in her bed..

Isabelle has been s.l.o.w.l.y getting back into the groove of putting herself to sleep in her own bed. Entirely my fault that it went all skewed after such a great run (she had a cold, and I put her in my bed with me and it went pear-shaped after that).

At the moment, Issy is trying to sync it all together and occasionally when I go to check on her once she is asleep I will find random toys in her bed.

Tonight, she had a backpack and handbag as well as her dressing gown and to top it all off, she had on her bunny nose she made at pre-school at Easter.

Fingers crossed tonight is another night full night of sleeping in her bed.

School Fair 09

Isabelle stayed over with Aunties Amanda and Mel again last night, and today I met them at Amanda's school fair/open day.

Issy really only wanted to play in Amanda's classroom, but jumped at the chance of a pony ride. This year, she was not as into it, the pony she had kept neighing (as they do) and she didn't like it. After only two circles, she was ready to get off and see other things. There were mainly horses this year too, so that may have had something to do with it.

They did have a snowboard demonstration again which Issy wanted to do. She is so excited about going to the snow - bring on winter!

After the much needed fairy floss was consumed, Issy and I headed off with Aunty Mel for a quick photo shoot, only to have Issy fall asleep on the way.

Miz Booshay wrote a post for Pioneer Woman which made me realise I have very little photos with Issy, which made me sad.
I need to remember this:
3. Your children look at you all day long. THEY know what you look like. They won’t care how you look in the picture.
The photos are not for anything else other than for Isabelle to have. They will be tucked away in an album somewhere, or saved on a disk and stored away so that in years to come we can smile at the memories of her beautiful childhood.

So the next time I start declining being in photos, remind me of this
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