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July Photo Update

Considering that I have 553 photos stored on my phone (alone), it's not so much a case of nothing to say but rather - where do I start?!

In no apparent order -
Ma Viv presented Jorja with this miniature "B-tar" and she took it to school on Tuesday to help them sing Happy Birthday to Madison!


Jorja is trying out a new hobby
 Aunty Dom has a nifty tool on her phone - useful for collaborating pictures and super nifty for not making one child seem more favoured than any other!!



  The Bonny Babies crew enjoyed a school holiday trip to Muizenberg and they took advantage of the warm sunshine, and enjoyed sandy slap chips!

Waiting at the Train Station
 With the cold weather upon us, this is pretty much the order of the day. Ethan doesn't seem to mind a beanie and at the same time, is working on his self-feed technique.


 Speaking of 'feed', Zac is always concerned that Rolo stays a well fed dog. He often takes it upon himself to open up the container and get a couple hand-full's of pellets out beforehand!


It's been a bumper month of first birthdays! This particular candle was used for Ethan, Zac and Lily! Ethan has only just worked out how to extinguish the flame, so when he sees this candle, we have to light it up again. Pretty soon, we'll be all out of commemorative candle.


To celebrate Madiba's birthday, the children visited Belthorn Primary School and decorated birthday cards for our former President. Afterwards, everyone made a big circle outside of the school to show that Belthorn is committed to upliftment.
Uniting a community
 This month we also 'celebrated' Ethan's first piece of art...on a wall...in someone else's house! Jorja was horrified (as we all should have been)! Fortunately, it was easy to wipe off and thankfully we have had no repeat offenders to date.
Ethan's First Wall Art
 ...And just in case we weren't missing the UK enough, we received this update from the Wilcox family, to show us all of the sun that they have at the moment! I am sorry that I couldn't show P-J the people in their bathers, catching a tan in the park!

Heat wave!



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