Six!

That fringe!

Filling their bedrooms with balloons has become a tradition they love to wake up to...

And the most fun is kicking them all over the room and then doing it all over again...

She's six...where has the time gone??
Now almost finished her Prep year at school, so confident and bright - the first to volunteer to be on stage, coordinate a project/group, do jobs for the teacher or try something new; she's a cuddleasaurus who can happily read for hours, and has a delightful sense of adventure to boot.
We're so proud of our biggest girl and look forward to seeing what God has in store for her in the years to come...
Happy Birthday gorgeous girl - we love you lots!

The 'real' cake is happening on Saturday, but this mud cake sure tasted good - even if Mummy forgot to decorate until the last minute and the sprinkles wouldn't stick...ooops!

Mixed bag

Climbing in the tree in the backyard of the rental property in gumboots last weekend, wearing the new dresses that Nanna made them. They had a number of fantastic games that they made up and played outside whenever it wasn't raining!!

On Tuesday night Ellen's school had their Christmas concert/carols night, but as the hall is being extended and renovated it was outside under the stars - which was lovely, except on a windy night with minimal speakers, it was rather hard to hear anything! Still, what we could hear was nice, and the actions to the song were done with great fervour!!

Olivia the green reindeer waiting patiently for Ellen's performance.

After the event - I don't think Greg will be able to do this for much longer, they're growing so fast!

Ellen is in the white shirt behind the conductor in the brown shirt...really would like the new camera that we've been researching...this point and shoot that replaced our last good one is really not up to the task!

House update

Some more recent pictures of the house. At this stage the builder thinks
that we may get to move in just before Christmas....
There's been more work done since this, but unfortunately we keep
forgetting to take photos - my hands are usually rather full of our
newest family member, so the camera gets forgotten.