Jan photo-a-day 2013 | Day 6 – 9

Two things.

Blueberries are her favourite thing to eat at any time of the day.

She will do anything to make us laugh.

Pete’s last day off before he went back to work.

I had plenty of work to squeeze in, so I got up at 3am & worked til about 10am, so that I could spend the rest of the day at the beach with my family.

I am not a fan of a 3am start, but doing it so we could all be at the beach together was worth it.

They are their happiest at the beach.

They play “chase the waves” together.

Ava spends most of her time in the water.  Anouk loves the sand.

I love how they get so much joy from so little.

There’s laughter in my home.
It means the world to me.

The day before this was a scorching Summer day in Sydney.
It was still 41 degrees Celsius at bedtime. We slept with the fans on.
Anouk crawled in next to me & sobbed that she didn’t like the dark & said “Daddy turned out the lights, I don’t like it”.
I hugged her & and said “It’s OK, I’ve got you”. We fell asleep.
Half way through the night she mumbled some words in her sleep … “mummy’s got me”.
At 6am she was still in our bed.
The heat was being replaced by a cooler temperature.
The dark was being replaced by morning light.
We had no plans. No reason to rush.
A still & peaceful moment I wanted to remember.