To the beach..

Today was Darian's day off and since the weather has cooled off...we have had 2 days of 30 degrees which have been bliss after the stint of over 40...

Anyway we decided to take the kids out for a few hours and what better place than Hillarys Boat Harbour....

We sat and had calamari and chips at Sharkies, the kids had a strawberry milkshake each and then we had a quick walk around. We bought Megan her first pair of sunglasses

We then headed down to the beach for a swim...

 

Joel loved the water, he wanted to get down and crawl and when he did he just kept going.

 

I am sure if we hadn't of got him he would have just kept going to Africa...

Matthew was having a great time in the water, I must do this more often....

More random snaps at the beach

 

After drying off we headed up to have an ice cream at Cold Rock. Megan had cookies and cream with gummy bears

Matthew had Strawberry with boysenberries and Darian had Mango....yummy

Joel had a bit of everyone's...

It was such a nice day...

The Joys of being a Toddler

It has been so hot here over the last few days..all over 42 degrees Celsius...

In the evenings after Darian gets home from work we sit out side have a drink and catch up while watching the kids swim. Joel just toddles around getting into all sorts of mischief

Standing at his walker

The bear crawl to the fence as he doesn't like the feel of the grass on his knees

Laughing at his brother and sister in the pool....

 

 

In his little red wagon that he got as an early Xmas present

Daddy and Joel

Just love this photo :)

Joel at 20 Months

More photos of our cute little boy who loves to get out in the back yard with the big kids, his favorite spot is behind the shed....only because he knows he is not allowed there....

Christmas 2009

We invited Mum and George to spend Christmas with us and they arrived Christmas eve. We also had a BBQ so we invited some friends around to celebrate. We had all 5 kids Christmas eve so it was really nice to be surrounded by family.

The kids didn't have a late night...about 9.30pm and they were sooo excited. We on the other hand didn't get to bed until 2 am and only then did Santa get to visit our house..

5.30am Christmas morning there was a very excited knock on our bed room door "SANTAS BEEN"...yep we were awake....just...

We managed to keep the kids calm until 8 am then we told them yes you can go wake Gran and George...

Then the present opening started...love this bit....the girls all got a R4 chip for their DS....each has over 80 games and you can delete and add. They also got a fluffy pillow each and some new clothes...

 

Matthew got a worm farm and  from Gran and George the kids got a crazy crab each....happy kids

At about 10.30 Megan went home to her Mum and the girls were picked up shortly later....the house was a lot quieter...

The afternoon was quiet, we had a bbq and I made my first Christmas pudding which turned out yummy...

The boys were tired and went to bed very early...but very happy

Lots and lots of bubbles....

Talia being her beautiful self and thinking of others bought a bubble machine for the little kids.

Joel was fascinated by the amount of bubbles that were coming out, we often blow bubbles but this machine filled the room up.

 

Look mum trying to catch them

Watching the bubbles come out of the machine

Joel at 19 Months

Time is flying by and our baby isn't a baby anymore...he is growing up fast...even though he is not walking yet he is extremely fast at crawling...he is also pulling himself up to stand and pulling himself up onto the coffee table and lounge...

His favourite song is catch a falling star and loves to play open, shut them...