Crafty Nesting

Darren tends to observe my obsessive cleaning spurts, cooking adventures, and kids projects as "nesting." True or not, we certainly all benefit from this stage of pregnancy. You'll probably recognize many of these ideas, but we've thoroughly enjoyed getting artsy and crafty, especially over the break. (And it doesn't hurt that they have these great art/writing competitions around Australia that offer $500 prizes and game consoles and such...)

 Fingerprint, Q-tip and bottle art...

Contact paper with tissue art (can be made shapeable as "sculptures" by hangers/wire as seen here.)

 Good old sharpie and tin foil art (their fave.)

Summer can eventually be found drifting back to her color sorting, (and has become a gracious playdate host of late.)

 They also discovered this awesome aboriginal hosted funky dance show - HILarious to see them try to catch on.

 And we've enjoyed a few field trips... this particular one out in the boonies where we toured Canberra's Deep Space Communication Complex.

 It's truly hard to capture the size of this dish. It's one of three largest in the world. You can fit a whole football stadium in it with ease and it moves with hairwidth precision to see out deeper in space than any place on earth.

Next year is a big anniversary year with some fun celebrations and even an opportunity to watch a new rover landing live on Mars.

Followed up by an impromptu FWD adventure. They got nervous when mom checked the manual... (nervous enough to GET OUT OF THE CAR before I drove down this hill - steeper than it looks since they couldn't even walk down and had to slide down on their bottoms) but I sufficiently won their trust in the end as we drove through rivers and bounced up and down hills.

Probably not my smartest move prego with 4 kids and far from cell service, but we did have fun.