Bike and scooter riding

Max is busy learning to ride his scooter and Hannah her bike (without side wheels). Most sunday mornings are spent with SImon running up and down the road after Hannah on her bike trying to minimize injuries. Max and I potter along whilst he rides his scooter. He is doing very well and is quite fearless. Hannah just wants to go faster and faster but poor daddy just can't keep up with her. Today they went the furthest so far. She is doing so well. They both are

Cake Decorating

Today was cake decorating competition day at Max's school. Everyone arrived with their ready baked cakes and tubs of icing. There was a whole load of activity for about half an hour after which evidence of lots of 'testing' was apparent on the kids faces, fingers jerseys etc. They really enjoyed themselves. Here was our effort - Max did the yellow ones and Hannah the pink ones

Here are some of the other efforts.....

And the winner was this fantastic castle....

We came third and won a jumping castle for the day - just in time for Max's factory party on Saturday. We had so much fun. There was an auction to raise funds for the school and a jumping castle and jungle gym and swings which the kids really enjoyed. They especially enjoyed playing with their friends. Thanks Bridget for a lovely fun afternoon.

Max's new haircut

Today we decided it was time to cut Max's hair as it's beginning to impair her eyesight. He won't go to the hairdresser so your's truly set to work with a number 4....

This was before....

He sits so nicely ..... during ....

and after...

Doesn't he look cute! I think his hair cut makes him look younger.

Simon's taken the camera to china. I can't taken current pictures so here are a few highlights from 2008 so far instead...

Pilanesburg in March 2008
A last minute decision to take my Mum to see a little bit of true african wildlife. We had a great time although the grass was so high as can be seen here ...










Simon's mum and Dad joined us a few days later. Believe it or not it was Wally's first time in a game reserve. We had the best Hippo sightings we had ever seen - they seemed to be everywhere.... and then there were the lions. We had the privelege of getting very close to a mummy lion and her cub right next to our chalet!!!....















Aren't they cute and relatively tame too. I thought Lions were a bit hairier than this





A great time was had by us all

Welcome to our Blog!

This is me....

and this is Simon, Hannah and Max

We are the Ledgerwood family living in Durbanville, Cape Town, South Africa