85 and still going strong

Recently we celebrated Joss's 85th birthday with a wild afternoon tea at our place. There was no alcohol but quite a bit of chocolate and nougat... The photographer was a bit slack so sorry there aren't so many photos. But pretty much the same people came as to Gwenda's 70th party earlier in the year so you can refer back to that blog post. The skies were celebrating too with a double rainbow outside the party.

Joss was looking very well and this article suggests why.

Why I don't need to shop for Ella's clothes

I rarely have to shop to buy Ella's clothes. That's because my friend Lisa passes on all of her little girl Imogen's hand me downs. And they are top quality stuff. Here is a picture of the latest batch. Ella enjoyed 'sorting' them out.

It used to be a treat for me to shop for Ella's clothes until I took her recently to Kmart. I swear I was shopping with a teenager! Everything I chose was automatically rejected and there were tears... I bought the things I wanted and they were popular in retrospect.

Dress ups with Imogen

You know how they warn teenagers these days to watch what they post on the internet because when they grow up and apply for jobs prospective employers will find incriminating photos of them doing regrettable things. These are such photos of Imogen Spence and Simon and Ella %% Harris. (just to trick the search engines Lisa)

late bloomer

yes Simon finally lost his first tooth.

record sleep ins

This year is the year for record sleep-ins in the Harris family. One morning recently all 3 children slept till 7:30! And when Ben went for a sleepover with Granny he didn't stir till 7:45!

All I can say is after 7 years of waking up before 6am its about bloody time.