February 13, 2012

Maggie’s dancing concert

Maggie will be five years old next week (Jim too). She’s been attending dance lessons for two years! Her second concert performance was held last night at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre. Maggie learns ballet and tap with the MJ Dance Academy, but only performed ballet at the concert, which was danced to a song [...]

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Gladigau Park Kindergarten

This is the Gladigau Park Kindergarten class of 2008. Jim is in the front row on the right-hand side wearing mittens. Maggie is in the middle of the centre row. It’s been a good kindergarten with flexible hours, which helped Juliet get work. It’s not as close as we had in Kalgoorlie, where we just [...]

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Tiger and butterfly

The twins had their faces painted today. Jim was unusually extroverted and wanted to be first. He asked to be a tiger. Maggie followed and wanted to be a butterfly. We went to hear one of my work colleagues who plays acoustic guitar in a duo. They performed this afternoon at a local hotel. It [...]

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First video

This is a short video I made with the Xacti camera just before we left Kalgoorlie. It’s Jim and Maggie performing a very disjointed version of Ba Ba Blacksheep. I tried to film Princess the pup tonight, but it came out pretty dark and there was a lot of background noise. I’ve got a lot [...]

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Maggie’s voice

I tried to get Jim to talk into the recorder today, but he wouldn’t. So here is Maggie again: [audio:maggiemar08.mp3]

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