Mothers' Group

Every Wednesday we go to Mothers' Group. Most of us have been meeting together every week since March 2009. It's such a great group - kids and Mums!

Here is David with Klara and Davis. They are quite a threesome! We often imagine similar photos when they're teenagers...

And this is preparing for the big group shot. David's just sorting out some of the girls...

There are meant to be a whole lot more pictures here (including the group one) but blogger won't let me put up any more. Will keep trying...

(...and now I've given up.)

Healesville Sanctuary

David's kinder was closed for a staff development day, so we invited Grandma & Grandpa to come with us to Healesville Sanctuary. We had such a great day there. Here are some of the highlights...

How cute are these zebra finches, all snuggling each other! 

 Feeding the black cockatoo. David loved it but didn't want it on his arm!

 And was even less sure about the emu! (Fair enough!)

 The wombats were very active. Here they're fighting over some carrot.

 And the Tasmanian Devil was awake!

 This is David's photo of Grandma while we were waiting for the show in the flight arena.

 The resident wedge-tailed eagle nervously scanning the sky for the wild wedge-tailed eagle that swooped at this point in the show!

 After the show David was very keen to go and chat to the presenter...

 ...who was equally keen to chat with David!

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Questacon!

We had an amazing morning at Questacon in Canberra. David LOVED it and could have stayed all day! We went with Kate, Caleb and Reuben.

Kooka

David has finished his 1st term at Kookaburra Kindergarten. Mostly he has loved it. And from day 1 there haven't been any tears at drop-off time, much to my delight!

In the last week of term David had the honour of bringing home Kooka, the Kinder 'mascot'. Here he is introducing Kooka to his other "soft friends." (David's rather fond of soft friends!)

In the jungle...

Family Christmas

We all gathered at Mum and Dad's for Christmas lunch (and presents!) This first picture shows some of us playing "Pass the shell", David's very favourite party game. He is guessing whose hand holds the shell...

And here is David kissing his new felt sheep. Thank you Grandma!

Benjamin receiving our gift (and recording it??) with Megan.

Mum with her beautiful Winchester print.

Dad opening...

Christmas morning (PG rating for this post.)

David was very pleased with his stocking, especially when he realised he could open all the presents himself!
As he was opening them he asked me "Are these from Santa?"
I responded enthusiastically, "Yes!"
David looked at me and asked "Are you Santa?"

David's 3rd birthday

David is 3!!

We had a lovely (little) party for him on the morning of his birthday.

Here he is showing off one of his many new engines.

(How many other Thomas-themed presents can you see?!)

And here his new digger is helping him open a card.

(The digger didn't leave his side for a week, at least!)
Seren joined us on speaker phone (from Perth).

"I'm 3!"

Sharing the snacks with Grandma and Grandpa.

"The best picnic spot in Melbourne"

We are enjoying having Mum & Dad/Grandma and Grandpa back. This picnic was during their overlap with Tony, before he returned to England. We had a lovely picnic on the banks of the Yarra.

Yoga

David sometimes likes to join Seren when she does yoga in the morning. This time, though, it was Pretty and Scoop who wanted to join her. David was very impressed with Scoops ability to bend and make shapes!

Farewell Helen

We had such a lovely time with Tony and Helen here. We're still enjoying Tony's company...these pictures are from our farewell morning tea the day Helen left Australia.

It's a while ago now but David still says "Where's Helen?" every time we see Tony!

The lovely kangaroo backpack was a gift for David from Helen. Very appropriate since we'd seen a kangaroo with her joey together at Hanging Rock.

David's buttons!

We look forward to visiting you one day in England!

For Zach

Dear Zach,

This is for you.

Do you remember the painting in my house that was done by an elephant? You liked it when you saw it on skype.

Here are some pictures of that very painting being done by an elephant named Thongperm. He was 5 years old. That's young for an elephant! You can see that Grandpa, Aunty Seren, David and I were all there watching.

That's my painting on the far left. The others are pretty good too, don't you think?

Brunch this morning

Mum and Dad, this is for you. I thought you might like to see the new carpet, chairs and brunch set-up. (And the great musicians!)