Nature Walk

Last weekend we went for a walk on a little hiking trail. It was a 1.6km (1mile) return trip. A perfect length for little legs. The boys had a blast, and we really enjoyed getting back to nature. It was so wonderfully peaceful in the middle of the bush.

Bird foot prints in the mud (fascinating to a little boy)

Ethan taking a picture of the footprints (above)

It was a great morning, and we shall defiantly be doing it again :)

4 weeks to go!

Today marks 4 weeks until we leave for our big trip to America.
We are starting to get really excited! We have booked and paid for almost everything we can organise ahead of schedule.
We are now up to trying to work out how on earth to pack 4 people's stuff into the right size and weight bags to meet the requirements of all 8 flights we will be taking. Wish us luck!
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Weight check

It is exactly 6 weeks until my babies turn 4!
Wow, the time has flown by!

Ben - 15.3kg (33.7lbs)
Ethan 16.9kg (37.2lbs)

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Such Big BIG Boys!

Little Drumming Boys

My little helpers

Park again

Packages from Aunty Shell & Uncle Michael

Thanks Aunty Shell & Uncle Michael – boys love packages!

Sunrise

I had to do a (rare) morning shift at work the other week. The boys and I were happy to see this sunrise from our front door.

Loving new bikes

Ben and Ethan LOVE their new bikes. We went to the bike park almost daily for the first week or two after they got them. Here are a few pictures.

I think I may have uploaded the first 2 pics before, but I haven’t been on the laptop in weeks. I have only just seen the iPhone posts and the photo quality is terrible :( The pictures themselves aren’t as bad when they are published via the laptop. I’ll try and get on the laptop more…. sorry about that!

In this photo, Ben is riding with his friend Maddie. The boys are friends with identical twins, Maddie and Ruby. We have been to the park with them a couple of times.

We also took Grandma to the bike park. We had a picnic lunch and the boys did some riding. It was a beautiful morning :)

Cuddles for Grandma.

Ethan

Ben

Good bye Sharyn

Ben and Ethan's favourite teacher at school left last week. It was a sad goodbye. We will miss Sharyn.


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New playgroup

A friend of mine invited us to a playgroup open day. The boys had fun playing with some new toys. They even ran into a friend from preschool, and enjoyed playing with her.
The highlight was these tunnels, they had a great time playing and laughing.


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Happy Birthday Aunty Shell

We went to Shell and Michael's house last week for Aunty Shell's birthday.

We had a nice morning. We went to the park and the boys rode their new bikes. We watered Shell's plants...








And had some cake!



Happy Birthday Aunty Shell!!

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Random quote

Ben: See mum, that milk is from a cow, it has a cow on it, but that milk is from woolies, cause it has woolies [logo] on it.

To my international readers, "woolies" (aka Woolworths) is an large chain of grocery stores in Australia
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Feb 16th - new bikes

Ben and Ethan got new bikes today!
We went to the bike park last week and I took their tricycles and their balance bikes. Their tricycles are way too small :(
And their balance bikes are way too heavy to work, we tried again without much luck. They tried their friend's 2wheeler bike with training wheels and loved it!
We shopped around all week, and finally settled on these 14" (35cm) fire rescue bikes. They love them! (luckily for us they were on special!!)



They haven't ridden two wheeler bikes much before. They had a little turn of their friends bikes last week, and a few trials at the shops. This was their first go on their own bikes.

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