Literacy & Numeracy Week

Daddy and Lochie doing an activity together

Jason leading one of the Numeracy activities which involved fly swatters - the kids loved it.

Lochie measuring a picture with blocks and then counting them.

Lochie proud of his painting which was of the rhyme I saw a dinosaur walk through the door.

Ahoy there me Mateys

Zach had a Pirate Day at Kindy recently and luckily I remembered that last year one of his pajama tops for summer was a pirate top so it just still fit and with a pirate hat from the dress up box and pants from the hand me down pile from Lachlan we have one very cute pirate.

Kiwi Cousin Visit

Enjoying lunch down at Shorncliffe Beachfront

All the kids lined up for a photo.

Recently my cousin Bryce from New Zealand came over for a holiday with his lovely wife Kelly and their three kids Holly, Jamie and Owen. My sister Ros and her family happened to be down for the weekend from Toowoomba, and so with other relatives Susan and Denis and my Mum, we all got together for a small family reunion down at the Shorncliffe Beachfront on the most beautiful sunshine day and had a great time catching up. The kids didn't stop running and playing on the great playground they have down there and even when we headed back to our house for dessert and coffee they still didn't sit still - it was great to see considering they had only just met - I can't wait to take my kids over to see my other cousin's kids in NZ who are also similar ages. Maybe one day...

Father's Day 2010

Opening Presents - obviously Jason was thrilled with what he got from his expression.

Daddy and his two boys - Zach wasn't really in a photo friendly mood at the time.

Not great photos unfortunately but I couldn't let the day go without blogging about it so here we are. We did have a great day and caught up with my Dad (Grandad) also to celebrate his Father's Day as well. We unfortunately did run out of gas on the BBQ at a crucial moment but we won't talk about that - thank goodness we have a frypans and meals can be continued inside!

Fathers Day Night

Daddy and Lochie at School on Fathers Day Night

Lochie with his creation which he made on the night with the construction toys

Lochie and the rest of the class singing the Fathers' a song to end the night.

Lochie's class had a Father's Day Night to celebrate Father's Day and had a sausage sizzle and many activities in the classroom that the Dad's could do with the kids. They also gave the Dad's a present which they made in the class which was a tie with their face on it. Lochie was very excited to take Jason along to the night.

A riding we will go

Lochie having fun at the bike park.

Daddy pushing Zach around on his bike. Thank goodness he has now progressed to riding his bike by himself - hooray says Mum and Dad!

Mummy's turn to push.

Daddy and Zach having a rest and watching Lochie riding his bike - I love this photo of the two of them together.

It was a little while ago now, but we headed down one weekend morning to a park that has a bike path just set up for kids to learn how to ride on it. It's great and has stop signs and round abouts on it - it's supposed to teach them a few road rules before they take to riding their bikes on the roads. The boys had a great time and Jason and I were pretty worn out pushing Zach's bike around too as he hadn't quite got the nack of pushing the peddles around just yet.