The Bourgeoi-Vieve

She starts school next week

Test ride, originally uploaded by baudman .

Today, she was going to her buddies for the day (returning the favour Nai supplied yesterday - kinder went back a week earlier than planned, and they had nowhere to go!)

Their place is just past the school, so we tried the route on for size.

Spahlooooooosh

Spahlooooooosh, originally uploaded by baudman .

We thought we'd go for a ride, and also check out a playground. The latter ended up not happening, but the former did.

More here - http://www.flickr.com/search/?d=taken-20110115-20110115&mt=all&adv=1&w=26670541%40N07&q=genevieve&m=text

Pix from her year at Kinder

Rosella Fire Truck Visit 13.7.10 049, originally uploaded by baudman .

With her scrapbook, detailing many of the things she did at kinder during the year, was a CD with all of the photos taken of her.

Click here to see them. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=kinder&d=posted-20110111-20110112&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&w=26670541%40N07&adv=1#page=0

Yearly trip to the CBD for Christmasmas

Dear Santa..., originally uploaded by baudman .

One tradition we think we're going to set up is to take the girls into the city, to put a letter to Santa into the post box they have in the City Square. We can also check out the Myer windows (if we get there before the queues).

Luckily, we also stumbled across a City of Melbourne supplied free Santa in the City Square, so got some pix with him.

Lots more pix here - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cbd&d=taken-20101211-20101211&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&w=26670541%40N07&adv=1

Primary School - the first steps

This may not be her teacher, but I hope so ;), originally uploaded by baudman .

Ok... the second.

The first were her class from Childcare going there for an excursion. They've also had a teacher or two come to visit them.

But today was the first day she went there as an impending student. She was very excited, or at least until she saw all the kids and the commotion.

By the end of it though, she was rapt, and wanted to wear her new uniform all day.

More pix -
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=school&d=taken-20101116-20101116&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&w=26670541%40N07&adv=1

Stakes day

Flemington, from the top of the hill, originally uploaded by baudman .

More pix here

Cup Day

Steam, originally uploaded by baudman .

Darth (Shopping) Mall

Darth (Shopping) Mall, originally uploaded by baudman .

Darth (Shopping) Maul

Darth (Shopping) Maul, originally uploaded by baudman .

Kinder had the obligatory Halloween day. (Groan... I mean, they don't celebrate Founders Day, or Presidents Day, or even GroundHog Day).

Anyway, Genevieve said she wanted to go as the "Scary StarWars Man".

Picnic in the park

Picnic, originally uploaded by baudman .

Great weather of late, so when picking the girls up from Childcare, I put it to Genevieve that we could have a picnic. So we raced home and got some gear. I asked her what we could eat, and she suggested sandwiches with cheese, and tomato and vegemite and lettuce (not all at once, of course).

So we grabbed all the gear and headed off.

More pix here.