2010 the year that was

• Ella started and finished a very successful year at Sue's Childcare. There were lots of activities to do, lovely staff and she made lots of friends. In particular, there were no Steiner administration problems.
• Ben started school and secretly loved it "a little bit". Oops its not a secret anymore.
• Simon joined the chess club at school and really enjoyed it. Anything to avoid handball!
• Ella finally gave up her "pull-ups". She still pulls us up at every opportunity how ever.
• Simon received an Italian award for his class despite knowing very few Italian words. I think they teach a lot of culture.
• Sarah survived without Michael on two separate occasions for 10 days and 1 week respectively. The promise of a present on his return seemed to help!
• Ben and Simon were both very happy to receive iPod Touches for Christmas and we are now saving up for Electronic Addiction Counselling in a few years time.....
• We got Solar Heating in our pool and now all our friends that prefer the pool to be more like a bath are tipping their toes in.

second break

Simon recently fell off the monkey bars at school and had a sore arm. It was still sore the next day so we thought we better take it seriously. Sure enough he had a green stick fracture and initially received a half cast. Later we splurged an extra $20 so he could get a waterproof cast. He chose black because it was cool.