Swimming with Aunty Shell, Uncle Michael and Nana

We went to the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre a few weeks ago for a swim. The boys had a FANTASTIC time.

 

Ben

Ethan and Tracie

Ben

Ethan

Ben 

Ben and Ethan on the water slide

Ethan and Sal

Sal, boys and Shell, playing with the wheel that turns the water on/off

Aunty Shell and Ben

Ethan, after just pulling the rope and wetting Sal. He thought that was a great game!

Boys wetting Aunty Shell.

Underwater Benny

Benny and Nana

Ethan and Aunty Shell

Ben and Tracie

Ethan and Aunty Shell

Nana, Ethan with Aunty Shell, and Benny with Uncle Michael

Aunty Shell and Ethan underwater 

Ethan pulling that rope again.

Everyone waiting for the bucket of water to fall….

A fun morning was had by all.

Homemade Advent Calendar

Today we made our own advent calendar. I was hoping that the boys would enjoy the craft activity, but their interest lasted about 5 mins!

So Tracie and Sal finished it…. We used toilet rolls, covered them in Christmas wrapping paper, and put presents inside. Odd days have a small chocolate. Even days have a miniature Christmas tree decoration that we will use to decorate a miniature tree for our table. We labelled them 1-25 and hung them on a board….. times two of course!!

The count down to Christmas is on!!

Snake

We have seen a diamond python on our back fence about 5-6 times over the last 2 summers. He/She is usually spotted on the back fence in the morning sun.

We guess it’s about 2m (6ft) long!

Faces

How many emotions and how many faces can a little boy have during one meal? 

Photos of Ethan are posted in the order taken……(ps, we live with these messy faces every day!)

      

And cheeky Benny too….

Swimming Video

 

Here is a short video Tracie put together showing off the boys swimming. They are 3.5yrs old here, and in Level2 swimming lessons.

Swimming Photos

We bought our self another new camera. It was going to be a Christmas present, or bought in post Christmas sales, but a local shop had a sale last weekend that we couldn’t resist. We already own a beautiful digital SLR camera, which we LOVE, and it takes really nice photos, but it has it’s limitations……

We have bought this new camera as it is waterproof, shockproof, dust/sand proof and most importantly, essentially child proof. We bought primarily to take on our trip to America. We wanted a camera we can take to Disney World, and around other theme parks, and to the beach in Hawaii and not have to always worry about it getting wet, sandy or broken. It is a little, simple point and shoot camera, but it takes reasonable photos. It’s a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT10 in case you’re interested.

  

We took it to the local pool to test it out last weekend. It’s not bad for a point and shoot camera. (By the way, all the photos in the “Random Fun” post that I just uploaded were taken with this new camera). There is HEAPS of video too, but Tracie is editing it, and it’s still 6minutes long. Once she cuts it down a bit, I will upload it too.

Below are some pool photos. Ben in the green cap and goggles. Ethan has no cap and blue goggles…

 

I like this one, looks like he’s walking on water! 

Taken by Ben at the top of the slide.

And some underwater photos…..      

Ben and Ethan are doing really well at swimming these days. I’ll try and upload some video soon. We have been trying really hard to get them lots of practice with their swimming, so they will be able to have lots of fun this summer, and when we go to America next year. It is paying off, they LOVE swimming, and are improving every week.