The girls flew back from Kununurra on Friday and we had the weekend to get ready for school....
I cant believe Talia is in year 7 already....my baby is growing up
Eloise a big year 4 girl....
Everybody was excited and I dropped off the girls at school, walking them each to class before driving Matthew to Pre-primary..he will start taking the bus next week.
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...
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
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
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
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...
Matthew finished school on Wednesday but the girls finished today. They have slowly been bringing home work books, art and all the various projects they have done during the term. I love sitting down and looking though all of it. I always keep some and the rest goes into recycling or rubbish..
They also bought their reports home...Talia has done extremely well this year and we were blessed to have such a great teacher for her, with all the trouble Talia has gone through this year with one particular girl I am grateful she has made it through. There is also news that that girl wont be going back to our school next year. Talia has learnt many lessons this year and not all of them were academic...I am so proud of her. Year 7 here we come
Eloise's report was surprising, she is a bright girl however she has struggled with her reading and because of this Maths. This year things have slowly started to come together for her. Her reading is 100% better now we just need to work on fluency. I am just hoping that she gets a teacher next that she gels with as this will make all the difference in year 4 for her.
The Kindy kids have been practicing their Christmas songs so that they could perform for us parents.
They sung the ABC, and sung Rudolf the red nose reindeer...I video taped the whole thing. Each child was also presented a Kindergarten diploma....
After the concert the kids sat down and had a small party to say good bye to Kindy and their friends for the holidays.
Matthew can't wait for Pre-primary...
I had my case conference with Matthews Kindy Teacher, speech therapist and head master today about where to place Matthew next year...if he should stay at the language centre or go to main stream school.
I was really hoping that he would stay at the LDC...and yes he will be...he is doing really well apart from his attention or lack of...we will speak to the pediatrician about this before next year...
So he will be going to pre-primary at the LDC and be reassessed at the end of next year again..he will also be taking the bus to school...they pick up and drop off at our house. No more driving ...YAY
I also applied for passports for both Matthew and Joel...they arrived and we have booked a holiday to Bali for next April....just before Joel turns 2...saves us paying for him...I am so looking forward to it....
Joel is starting to cruise the furniture now..the physio wants his hips and knees to get a bit stronger before he walks ...so lots and lots of cruising
Joel is now 18months old..he is 10kg and 81cm long.....
For the first time ever we let Talia go out trick or treating with some friends...she decided to go as a dead cow...
She came home with quiet a stash and very happy...there were quiet a few groups of kids out and we even had a few witches and vampires at our door...
This year at Talia's school the year 6 and 7's did a stage show of Aladdin..after 6 months the night was finally here...
Each of the cast was given their own T-shirt.
The show was fantastic..Talia was one of the harem girls and over the 2 nights it was a sell out show...
I wasn't able to take any photos of the performance but took these before she left home
She wanted her hair straight...and it took me hours...
Summer is coming...the warm weather is here. We managed to get outside and enjoy some of the warmth...
Joel is finally pulling to stand...though on very wobbly legs...
He loves to be outside with the kids and chucks minor wobblies if he is stuck inside.
Daddy got him a small paddling pool to enjoy
he is just sooooo cute....17 months have gone really really fast
