Australian holiday - Seaworld

We were very lucky to spend the whole of the school holidays in Australia.

We spent the first week in Mermaid Beach (Mackenzie was very disappointed that no mermaids were sighted) with Ben and Paula.

We all went to Seaworld and had lots of fun visiting the animals and enjoying the rides, although we could easily have spent another day there

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September outings

Sorry we've been out of action, so here's a few updates from our month...

Fireman Sam or Alex with his dog

Our masterchef - Alex loves baking!

Visiting Uncle Tony and Aunty Leah for their birthdays and the lambs!

Mummy and Alex had a very exciting outing to the pirate ship, Alex's favourite thing to shout is "I want treasure". Great when it's in the middle of church!

 Gardening

 Mackenzie's new bike got a seat for teddy added...
Mackenzie's first school disco

spin

One of Alex's favourite things in the world is to make himself sick by spinning in a circle until he falls down!

Hansel and Gretal

Last weekend we went on an outing to Granny and Grandad's to see a show - all our cousins came too.

It was lots of fun at the show 

 and then Lavinia taught Alex some new tricks on the slide at the park.

Thanks Granny and Grandad for another fun day out.

Our new baby

Now that we don't have a baby for our cot, someone else has decided they quite like the protection it offers!

The latest boy's outing

This week we went for a walk to a new park and had a picnic togtether.  Alex is learning that Luke and James are his special friends and the mum's enjoy a good catch up too!

A trip to the park

We had a lovely sunny weekend so we went on an outing to our park

 

Cuddles or wrestling???

Our big boy

Alex has finally had a really big boy haircut. He sat very still and was rewarded with his favourite treat, a lollipop.

His mummy is feeling a bit sad that her big boy is all grown up as he is sleeping in his big boy bed tonight too.

Our reading girl

Mackenzie is very proud of her increasing reading ability.

School is a huge hit, as a little social butterfly she seems to be friends with half the school and is even enthusiastically getting her Mum and brother out training ready for her cross country.

Mum and Mackenzie's afternoon of fun

Mum and Mackenzie spent a Saturday afternoon whipping up a couple of dancing skirts and then using the remains to create lots of different barbie dresses.

Boy's playgroup

Alex and a couple of friends have started to get together each week now that their big sisters have gone to school.

They've had lots of fun, riding on tractors, playing with dogs - lots of good boy stuff!

School holiday fun

We had lots of fun in the school holidays and really enjoyed not having to rush anywhere in the mornings.

We caught up with friends...

 

Helped Daddy build a cabinet for his new tv...

Went on a trip to Auckland for ice skating, to visit the museum and to have dinner with Uncle Ali and Leeann
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  Lucky school is so much fun or being back wouldn't be great.

Was it cold today???

You'd never guess it if you saw two young ladies running around half naked in the mud.
We enjoyed some lovely sunshine at a friend's house in the country, playing in the mud, learning to drink from a tap and taking the dogs for a walk. It did get colder later, but by that time we were all snuggled up at home.

More driving

Alex's favourite passtime is still driving the car. He knows how to find the right key and put it in the ignition and he's now decided the glasses are an essential part of driving the car because that's what mummy does.

Pet show

We went to the pet show in the weekend. There were lots of animals, baby goats, pigs and sheep to pat and lots and lots of dogs.

However the highlight was having a horse ride. Alex was adament he wasn't missing out and had to have a turn too.

Pet shop

Alex and Mummy went on a trip to the pet shop with Porse, Granny and Lavinia and Kathryn and Bella came too. We got to pat puppy dogs, kittens, guinea pigs,

although Alex's favourite part was hiding in the cages and being the dog.

Daddy's birthday

Daddy's birthday didn't quite go as plan. With a house load of sick people, including the nanny being off sick Daddy ended up with takeaways for dinner and he didn't even get to go out in the weekend as Alex's ear infection flared up again. Oh well at least there was cake with lollies.

Sick kids

Like everyone else we've had a lot of bugs so the kids had some extra time together at the end of term.

Making a train.
Driving a car inside a car