This will hurt me...

Ezra points out a blackwood tree amongst the gums. Tahune Air Walk, September 2010. I'm all about healthy kids, happy kids and confident kids. Part of the (not very-) secret to encouraging the HCC kids trifecta is through modelling good behaviour . Thus, when word went around my workplace that volunteers were required for the challenging and fast-paced game of Touch Football, the guilty part of my conscience realised that I might have the best (as in easiest ) chance to model good behaviour in terms of "engagement in organised sport". So, last night I had my very first game in the Southern Touch League (Division SEVEN ). Henry and Ezra (plus Jen) came along as cheerleaders and moral support. They were also useful in scraping me off the floor at the end of the game. The most important lesson that I learned is that my fitness levels could do with some improving. I also figured out - about three-quarters into the second half - that it is better to run diagonally than in stra...

Henry and Jen[ry] look for starfish in Bellerive. They thought they found one, but it had only ever appeared in reality television, thus only qualified as a “fish”.

The little bloke simply demands that his mother let him in the holiday barn house right away . It is a good thing that he's so handsome.

Ezra re-enacts his birth experience with his mother. It's all part of the healing process. As part of the festivities, I give you the week of his birth ! [Start at the bottom and scroll up.]

Here is Ezra riding Jen like a horse (or a camel) down at Fossil Bluff in Wynyard, on Tasmania's sunny North West! The bloke just over her shoulder (not in red stripes) is frequent (as in every single post commentator " Roddy ".

And tonight, before a live studio audience, it's the JEN AND HEN SHOW.....!

Like all good children, Ezra listens with great intent , deference and respect to everything his mother tells him. The he goes off and does the opposite.