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!
 

Girl Time

Hanging out in the teenage room, watching Matilda dance to new songs on iPod.
One of the best moments in my life. Feeling very blessed with my three girls.

Thanks Grandma for My Cute Outfit!

Tummy Time

Belated First Christmas

Josephine and her big sisters return to Doha and a bundle of presents from Santa under the tree. Lucky kids!

Copenhagen Fun

Outside Daddy's apartment in Amagerbro.

Four flights of stairs, a few times a day, burns many calories.

Matilda and two teddy bears (look closely at the brown one).

Josephine loves her Christmas present from her sisters.

Aunty Nikohl has arrived!!!

Another photographer means you may get to see me for a change!

Isabelle knows Aunty Nikohl loves her hot chocolate!

I don't know who is more excited to meet the other?

The big girls head straight out with Aunty Nikohl and her boyfriend Marco to show them the sights of Copenhagen.

I love these shots that Marco took.

The best chocolate in the world!!!! All mine!!!! (I shared some of it...)

Daddy has a small apartment with no bath, so we used the kitchen sink every evening to wind down.

There was much Daddy love!

Hanging out at the Danish Design Museum, as you do.

Some famous Arne Jacobsen pieces. If only.



Posing with the Royal Danish Guard just seconds before Princess Mary drove past and waved at us!

And then her mother in law drove past and waved too!!

See!!

One of many evening concerts we had to endure... I mean "enjoy".

Human in a bubble.

Thanks for making the effort and coming to visit!!!

Sister Love.

Safely in my sister's arms on our flight back to Doha.