Pirate Girl!

Dear Great Gran,
Recently seen at the Gong:

'Hoist the main sail, ship's monkey!'

Naval gazing with binoculars: 'Giant barnacles on deck, Captain!'

Keeping a lookout with improvised binoculars...

...and with no binoculars.

When Buttons was playing with some older children at beach, the 8 year old saw a cargo ship pulling out from the steelworks and he called 'Look out there! A container tanker!' and his 3 year old brother corrected him, saying 'It's a sailing ship!' but Buttons contradicted them all with 'No, it's a pirate ship!'

love from
Brendan

Encore!

Dear Great Gran,

Our house continues to reverberate to the sounds of non-stop live hit-music from the jukebox with no off button or volume control!

Here Buttons grabs the goanna with Momo...

and pounds the ivories with Pippa...

Just as well we've got the piano tuned - I'm sure you can also appreciate the difference it has made!

No performance would be complete without a costume change into a ladybug costume and a solo number...
Here the ladybug dances in front of the 2nd birthday cake picture in the Women's Weekly cake book! (Plans are already being made for the next birthday cake!)

Finally, according to the Graeme Base children's book The Waterhole, what do ladybugs say? (please turn your head sideways for this one)

much love,
Brendan