Tuesday, March 19, 2024

A St Patrick's Celebration afternoon

 

Pat and Yasmine are going to host a fun St Patrick’s afternoon for the local children at Kowhai Corner Hall. The children have been asked to wear green if possible and the Sunshine Families children have been asked to bring a green item along to the afternoon.


Yasmine and Pat are decorating the hall for this celebration afternoon.


Brenda drops off her four girls and Sharon and Brenda tells Pat the boys of the Sunshine families will not be coming to the afternoon. Pat tells the girls to set in a circle and tell what items they have brought. Hope has brought a green child’s handbag, Jennifer has brought a green toy car, Leah has brought a green toy giraffe, Jackie a green ball and Sharon has brought along a green spinning top.


Four local girls arrive together.


They come into the hall and Yasmin puts out a couple of chairs and cushions and girls settle down


Pat starts telling the girls the story about St Patrick when she is interrupted....

 

when Skipper arrives with five girls from the Kelly Care Centre. The girls do some dot to dot and mazes before they are served with a plate of lime jelly, lime ice cream and cooked peaches.


The girls then go outside to play and before too long the afternoon comes to a close. The girls from Kelly Care Centre get into the bus and go home. Then the other girls leave to go home too. 




Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Happy New Year 2022

 


The Sunshine family and Ruby are outside on the last evening of 2021 to celebrate the arrival 2022.


The Sunshine children of the three brothers are together playing with the Countdown Lego Supermarket pieces that were available from Countdown from the middle of November to the middle of December 2021. They are missing two items of a total of forty items.



A photo taken of Steve and Harold Sunshine last summer in 2021 when they borrowed their friends car and went surfing early one morning.



Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Daisy with the Horses



Daisy is dressed in her equestrian clothing.  




Daisy is with an unmarked horse. This horse has a broken back foot which has been mended.


Daisy is with a horse at the stables. The horse is unmarked, but it is the Only Hearts Club horse.


Daisy is getting her horse ready for an equestrian event. The horse is unmarked.


John is giving Daisy some encouragement before her performance.


Daisy is at the market looking at horse saddles that are for sale.







A Daisy Doll wardrobe with missing round gold handles by Mary Quant.


This is the Daisy Doll wardrobe with the doors open. The red coat hangers are the Daisy Doll hangers.

Friday, February 1, 2019

Kelly Dolls Care Centre


Pat and Yasmine are waiting for the bus to take them on an one hour journey to a Kelly Girls Care Centre.


There are going to observe and learn from the carer's how the Centre handles the day to day care of the Kelly girls.



They arrive near the Centre and Skipper from the Kelly Care Centre is there at the bus stop to welcome them and walk with them to the Centre. Skipper takes them to the dormitory at the A Block area which is for the girls who live at the Centre.


 When they enter A Block they observe the Kelly girls getting out of bed and getting ready to have breakfast.




When the girls have finished eating their breakfast Pat and Yasmine are asked to take them to the outside play area.


The girls run to the metal frame climbing ball.



Next they go over to the slide.


The twins, Trudy and Wendy look over at the see-saw and go and climb on it and have a turn on the see-saw before the others come over.

Two other girls go to the swing.

The supervisor comes and tells Pat and Yasmine to bring the children inside and take them to the toilet and to see they wash their hands before sitting down for morning tea.
  


When the girls have finished morning tea they sit on the mat and Pat is asked to read them a story.


When the story is finished the girls are free to play with inside toys until lunch time.


                                     

After lunch the girls lie down to have an afternoon rest. Pat stays in the room to supervise the girls. They settle well and go to sleep.
The girls wake up and to have afternoon tea and Pat and Yasmine say good bye to the girls and thank the supervisor and Skipper and leave to  catch the bus back to the town near Kowhai Corner.