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Fishing with Ethan at Apollo Bay


The band were playing at the Apollo Bay Music festival, and the family came along (except for Eric) …

Just after these shots were taken, Ethan ran straight into the ocean in his new shoes. He was genuinely surprised when he found out that wasn’t a good idea. After that, he lost us for a few minutes, and thought we had driven off without him (we hadnt!) – and he did just the right thing, going back to the last place we were, then talking to a family nearby. I was proud of the way he handled himself.

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Standard Buckethead shot.

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Buckethead

Barbara says that all family albums are the same, if you squint a bit – “trip to the beach”, “Christmas”, and so on. If she’s right, I think “child with bucket on head” is part of the canon.
Blame this one on my genes, not Fiona’s!

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Grade 2: It’s brutal out there

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Man, its tough for boys out there in grade 2. In 10 days, Ethan has:
* been in a fist-fight,
* had a door slammed into his face, splitting his lip and loosening teeth (pic),
* been kicked in the eye, with resulting li’l shiner
* had a cut across his throat (he did ask for it – literally asked his friend Max ” can you get that giant branch, and make a scar across my throat?
* skidded & slipped on asphalt, ending up with a 1.5 inch square dressing on his knee.

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Poisonous Flower Drill.

Last night we had a fire drill here at Tasma (yeah I know, paranoid) – teaching the kids to get down low and crawl to the front door, and go out to the letterbox if there was a fire. When we finished, Lucinda (4) said “That’s for fire, right? What about the BATS? What about the POISONOUS FLOWERS?”.

We just hadnt covered enough bases for our Lucinda.