This post is just going to be photos strung together with bits of text, so be prepared to draw your own conclusions.
First, Nell wearing her newest summer dress: the easiest one yet! (Fabric is by fellow Typepad blogger Heather Bailey). Soy keeps reminding me that Nell won't need so many lovely dresses when she's in school uniform next year, so I am making this the summer of gorgeousness.
We were at Zac's school on Sunday (the incredibly hot Sunday, which made standing around an asphalt playground so pleasant) for the Battle of the Bands. Zac was playing as opener and although he played Beethoven, we warmed him up with a little Metallica as interpreted by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra before we left, to get him into the rock 'n roll mood.
Witnessing this musical smorgasbord were his two grandmothers: Helen and Pam (my Mum). I'm pretty sure the String Beans have never received such rousing cheers of approval from any crowd as they did on Sunday with these two grandmothers in attendance.
I'm also fairly certain that none of the other 12 bands playing on Sunday got the roars of approval Zac did, not even the band from North Annandale school who played later in the day, fronted by Ian Moss singing Cold Chisel songs before he went into town to play at the Idol finale.
After one year of cello, Zac has done a warm up gig for Mossy and he's fairly certain his career has peaked so he's retiring. It's violin next year.
Also on Sunday we celebrated this young fellow's first birthday. Fortunately his grandmother has a swimming pool which all the older children put to good use.