Cladding begins...

The cladding started to go on the house this week, which starts to give a feel for what it's going to look like. Not the final colours of course, but still another step forward. Predicting rain for the start of the week though, so this will slow down and work will shift back inside again. Who would have thought we'd be having this much rain in one of the two council areas still drought declared in Qld!!

Kindy photo 2010

Hard to believe she's only 4 sometimes...so tall, so confident and so very ready to take life and throttle the very last drop out of it! Look out school, here she comes...

This is our gorgeous girl number two's kindy photo. We had to miss the actual day due to a nasty gastro bug, so caught up with the photographer at her studio, and this was the result of about 20 seconds of the photographers time...I think I should take some lessons in how to take a good photo!

It's a wrap

The girls love exploring the new house, particularly while there's no walls to get in the way.

The view from Ellen's room

No, we're not finished, but the house did get it's lovely blue wrap recently, and yesterday they started installing some of the windows...funny what feels like progress. The girls seemed a little worried that it would stay that colour - if it's going to be a bright colour, then pink is their obvious colour choice instead!

Funny old Father's Day

Daddy was spoiled today with many different things - lots of handmade goodies from the girls, his favourite Canadian breakfast and then after Church we also had to head out to the girls hockey club break up celebration. Despite the inclement weather, it was rather fun, and as you can imagine, the girls were very proud to receive their first ever trophies.
We spent the rest of the afternoon being lazy as a family together, watching a movie and playing a board game. This is one of the girls favourites, as it asks the participants to do a number of physical challenges - the last photo above is the girls trying to 'wheelbarrow' Daddy around the room....less than successful, but hilarious to watch!!

Fairytale ending

Ellen's Prep class had a celebration morning to mark the end of their section of studies on fairytales. We were invited to go along, dress-up and participate. There was a modelling parade of costumes, Royal disco, lots of songs and dances for us to watch, some Castle aerobics (seriously - they do aerobics as a class a couple of times each week apparently), a few games (pin the lips on the Frog Prince, and Pass the Royal Parcel etc.) and a couple of other activities as well, and then we all enjoyed a Royal Feast together. I don't know how the teachers have the imagination, time and energy to do it all, but it was fantastic! Ellen was in charge of leading a group in singing a round together, so she was rather chuffed at having a leadership role, and took it very seriously! No shrinking violet there...

Ellen chose to go as 'Alicia' from her favourite fairytale story The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Olivia selected 'Tinkerbell' and the only thing we could find Mummy (that she would fit in in her current very pregnant state) was to be a pirate from Captain Hook's crew out of Peter Pan...I was not allowed to attend without dressing up too apparently!