Growing Up

L took this incidental photo yesterday. For those who haven't seen Miss A for a while, it shows how grown-up she is looking these days :( / :)

Goldilocks

The post title speaks for itself.




















Awww... What a cute li'l girl

Pool, Anyone?

To celebrate Miss A's gymnastics break-up (and all of her friends at gymnastics), the club organised a party at one of the local pools today. It was great fun, and even Daddy took time off work to come! Miss A has certainly come a long way just from participating in gymnastics this year, as far as confidence and other physical aspects, which makes us very proud. We meant to take a lot of photos of the fun at the pool, but it turns out that juggling two small children (and one that was way past nap-time and very cranky) around a pool centre filled with crowds of people doesn't leave much opportunity for taking photos.

Rules of Engagement

Congratulations, Uncle Trev and Aunty Roni ;-)

We'll be comin' 'round the mountain...

Well, another week and another Happy Day Chart completed. this week's treat was to take a trip up a "purple hill". Miss A often sees mountains in the distance (hence, they appear to be purple) and has been begging us to go up there one day. And today was the day.

So, amidst bawling and wails from me ("Noooo! you're going too fast! Ahhhh! We're all going to die!" Apparently I was the only one in the car with an aversion to driving close to a steep slope) we finally made it to the top, took a short walk, observed the scenery and came down again.

I have told L in no uncertain terms that I will never go up that mountain again.

Here is a picture of the view from the top:

Fire Danger

L and his nephew went to some more fires during the week, about an hour north of us. Below we chronicle their valiant efforts to control the fire they went to on Tuesday. As you can see, it didn't all go to plan this time...















Back-burning the fire break
















Producing a little smoke - that made it all the way to town!
















Back-burn going wrong ............
















and getting worse ................
















The fire jumped the break behind us ........

















The end result of the fire getting a bit close, there
was smoke coming out of the engine bay as well
















This time it went right.
















Refilling with water again and again and again .......
















But yet again it jumped the breaks .......

Eating Out

For lunch today we were invited over to a friend's home. We had a great lunch and a fun (beginning to the) afternoon. The kids had a great time bouncing on the trampoline.



Well, everyone except Master B?











Thanks, Dobies for a great lunch and afternoon!

Producing Produce

For the last few months L has been busy looking after some new babies... baby pumpkins and watermelons that is. They are just two of the things that are growing around the place these days, and they are lookin' mighty fine.








































...swell

Beach Babe

Off to the beach we went this afternoon. We are making progress with both children as far as getting used to the moving water at the beach, as long as we are only in the basin! While Miss A and I were off looking at rocks and snails, L was taking pics with his awesome new lens, and looking after Master B. I was impressed when Miss A and I returned to find Master B almost asleep in the sand...

...All tuckered out

Stepping Out

Master B is walking very well these days, in fact it is his preferred mode of transportation. It didn't take him very long to try running, either, his major problem with that is that his little legs don't move fast enough and he ends up falling over, it's quite cute. He is also so eager to walk everywhere that he was doing it quite well this evening even while wearing his blanket sleeper!