Valentine's Day Bake Sale

The girls were bored within minutes on their first day of school holidays, so I suggested a bake sale. They went on to plan, advertise, and shop for this project. They also decided to donate all proceeds to charity. My kitchen was a hive of activity all week. Here are some photos of what they produced.
(Photo credits: Joanne Owen)

Special order for our friend Simone x

Raspberry & almond blondies

Princess cupcakes

Swedish chocolate balls

Carrot cake - sold out in less than 10 mins!

Pink lemonade by Matilda

Orlaidh eyes off the cakes :)

The girls raised 729QR for Hope & Homes for Children!

Flashback - Baby #1

With the arrival of Baby 3, I noticed that only Baby 1 has a complete baby album, albeit the old fashioned glued photographs type. So, I started my project of making each daughter a photo book of their first year. Here is Isabelle's...
 

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National Sports Day - 1km Doha Dash @ Lusail

Giving my sisters a pep talk pre-race.

Post-race! Well done sisters xx

New Toys Made By My Sisters

Haul of Carrots From Our Garden

Happy Baby

Three Babies at Four Months

Who do they look like? Do you think they look like sisters?

Littlest Sister

Happy Four Months Josephine!

Bumbo Bumbo

A new addition - the Bumbo seat!

It keeps Josephine in one place! And we can kiss her as much as we like!

Cross Country @ Dukhan Golf Course

Well done to Isabelle who finished 7th overall!

H2O ICC #5 @ Al Jazeera Azademy

Coach Roberto prepping Matilda for her races.

There she goes!

Cheering their sister on! Go Matilda!

Matilda came first in 25m backstroke (a club record!) and second in 25m freestyle.

Well done kids!

Third Time Lucky for a Ballerina?

Good Morning Sunshine!

The Sun is Shining

Hanging out in the garden with Mummy. We love Doha winters.

Matilda trying her hand at football. She loves it!

Netballers

Isabelle & Jessica - two happy little netballers, just home from Scott Cup 2013.

Partying Late

Josephine and I hanging out on the playmat. Big sisters have gone to bed.
We're the party animals!

More Tummy Time

Three and a half months now.

Playdate with My Buddy Archie

Brendan's Update

I'm currently cooling my heals (pardon the pun, minus something silly °C outside) in the lobby of the hotel in Aktau, Kazakhstan – a city that has only been in existence for the last 47 years, most of which (under the USSR) it didn’t appear on any maps so you'll need an Atlas published after 1991 to find it and had a number rather than a name. Even today, there are no street names just micro-districts and the bright façades of the apartment buildings only thinly disguise their function as military barracks hitherto. The locals tell me the nuclear research facilities and uranium extraction plants on which the town was foundered no longer exist. Coincidently though they have a love affair with neon signs here and I can't help but wonder if the lights are actually wired up or just glow of their own accord? Best not to dwell on that thought for too long....

I had my first hair cut transacted exclusively in Russian yesterday at the girlie Salon which is part of the hotel.......shops and services accessible without having to step outside are convenient in winter time here :). After 7 years of the Turkish barber / ringer on Al Waab street given me the 2 min "wham, bam thank ya Sir" shear it was a refreshing experience to have someone wash my hair, massage my ear lobes and then cut every hair on my head individually, not once but twice! The stylist had a pouch around her waist with 13 pairs of scissors and intended to use them all! I had to draw the line when she wanted to style my eyebrows, although to be fair she didn’t have much material to work with on the thinning top surface! All in all 4,000 tenge well spent!