Wonderful World Wednesday-Tamar Island

It's Wednesday... which means another Wonderful world focus! We went on a field trip to the Wet Lands (Tamar Island, Launceston) and saw some AMAZING things in nature while enjoying a walk together in the sunshine!!

Like snakes.... this one is a tiger snake 

(we also saw a copperhead snake!)

Signets (baby swans!)

Groovy seed heads..... while in flower and then after they have dried!

Any thought to what they are called???

Pretty purple flowers

Oh and My beautiful treasures having LOADS of FUN!!

We soooo love our nature study and especially our field trips!! I can't wait to show you more of the discoveries we've found with you soon!
Smiles The Torrents'

Planting Tomatoes

It's officially past Show Day here in Tassie!! Why do you ask?? Well that's when you can be safe (from frost) to plant your tomatoes!! It's taken a little longer than I'd like but yesterday the girls and I planted 4 different tomato varieties which we buy each year from a lovely "older man" that sells them from his backyard!

 

Esther was the main drive for getting them in NOW but Sophia was keen to help also! Beautiful Sapphire was soooo interested in it all, digging and shaking the dirt in containers and then lastly encouraging the plants to grow.....

I heard her say, (after me telling her she can't pull them out and that we had to wait for them to grow) ... squatting down near it.... "Ready... Steady... GO!!"
Perhaps she thought the little red tomatoes were going to appear right then and there!!!

You gotta love a 2 year old's way of thinking!! Anyway they are in! YAY! Now all we need is some other yummy veggies to get growing, perhaps beetroot and peas and lettuce!A trip to the nursery is soon in order.
Smiles The Torrents'

Sapphire's 2nd Birthday

 

 

Last Saturday we celebrated our sweet little Sapphire's 2nd birthday! Ohhh how sweet she is! We all love her sooo much and loved helping to make her special day exactly that.....SPECIAL!!

 

 

 

She played with bubbles and ate cake, sang songs and opened pressies! Enjoyed a BBQ with family and soaked up the birthday atmosphere! It was such a wonderful day!
Roll on the next year of fun filled life with our treasure,
Smiles The Torrents'

Beach + Holidays = Relaxing

We've been to Low Head for a few nights, the time was wonderful, the weather ok

 but the memories cherished!

 

 

 

Smiles The Torrents'

Rags for Hair with Paper! {Hair fun in the holidays!}

This holidays we have been doing loads of fun things, things that usually take too long in the normal day to day! Sophia loves to have her hair done and just the other night after her bath we decided to do her hair in RAGS!
It was a couple of years ago when we first tried this, but not the old fashion way, we discovered by the wonders of Google that you can use PAPER!! SOOO easy and soooo up my alley! SO that's what we did!

 

You simply get small sections of hair and wrap it around strips of paper!

 Soooo easy!! Here is a video to explain it better....

 

 This is the morning after, Sophia is taking out the paper 

and unravelling her wonderful curls!

 TA DA!! Ready for fun in the holidays!

Have you been having a good break? We've had the best first week, roll on the next!
Smiles The Torrents'