Photo Album

Ive been pretty bad at posting photos lately.. so heres a snapshot of what we've been up to the past month or so.

Swinging Sisters

Sisters in a box

Relaxing at South Bank

Ta-Da!  

Pony Rides at the Sunday Farmers Market

Checking out open houses

Lounging by the pool (holy chub!)

Celebrating Dyllan's 4th birthday

Being Superhero's

Doing laundry

Riding the shark 

Yunny and Lozzo visit Dyllan's swimming lesson- a private lesson because no one turned up in the pouring rain.

Merin and James came to visit for Dyllan's birthday weekend- we took the ferry to South Bank for Ice Cream and local markets

Riding the Ferry with Merin and James

Japanese Temple along the Brisbane River

Australia Day at James and Nat's

Practicing her stroke with Greg 

Hanging out with Mischa

All decked out in Australia gear- oh "hi" Ellie!

Cruising.. and so proud of it

LOVES to eat with one leg out..

Ballet Princess.. doing her thing..

Ballet Dyllan with her Ballet treasure box

River front picnic when Justin came to visit

Watt Bar on the river with Justin

At Pig N Whistle on the river watching the Seahawks WIN the Super Bowl.

Collecting the mail.  Everyday. 

Found her scooter

Taking down "missing scooter" signs

Trip down to surfers paradise.  And a new "kini"

Swimming buddy Kuen

Ballet Class (oops no photos allowed)

Ellie- during Ballet class.. ugh.. longest 30 min ever keeping her busy and quiet!

outside of ballet class

Love that smile.

Girls beach day down at Gabby's parents holiday house (Surfers Paradise- about an hour south of Brisbane)

Gabby and Nat manning the fort/Ellie- while the other kids played in the waves

Dyllan and Zane jumping waves

Saturday night- family night- ferry to New Farm- and a cruise through the streets, shops and parks

Live music and an empty alley.  

Dyllan the photographer.

Braids... sort of. 

Ready for Kindy:)

Candy got in my mouth

Dan and I were dying laughing at Dyllan tonight...

About 20 min after Dan tucked Dyllan into bed, she came running down the hall to our room in a panic crying "brush my teeth, brush my teeth again"! Worried, we both sat her down on our bed and asked her whats wrong?? She told us, sobbing.. "candy got into her mouth..".  Dan and I were doing our best to hold in our laugh (both turning to the side to laugh!) , as we tried to be serious and ask her "how?!"  The told us "the candy in my treasure box got into my mouth".. yes Dyllan, but "how did it get in your mouth?!"  ... "my hand put it in there".  I think she was so worried cause the super stale candy that she hoards in her treasure box probably hurt her teeth or got stuck in them..  

Candy is a tricky one with Dyllan.  She loves candies "lollies", but doesnt like to actually eat them.. instead, she hoards them and stores them in all kinds of weird little places (purses, treasure boxes, baggies..)  But the battle I have with her, is not so much that she has the candies, but the fact that I find them around the house and Ellie could potentially get her hands on them.  

Just like her mom, Dyllan is a sweet tooth...

  Ive tried making Candy a "special treat" which made the obsession even worse... so I tried making candy "no big deal"- giving her candy like it didnt really matter. And that helped, but I couldnt keep track of the little pieces and i'd find it around the house, stuck to the carpet and again a potential choking hazard.  Hmm.. not sure what to do about this issue?!

Kids club, ballet, swimming.. Oh my!

Thursdays are going to be pretty busy. Today was the first day of dyllans ballet- she was soo excited!

We started off the morning at the gym (aka "the zoo" dad!) kids in kids club. This morning I went to pick them up and they both had their faces painted. Dyllan a beautiful butterfly- Ellie just a red nose (Rudolf?). I had to scrub it off and chance Dyllan in the car cause we headed straight to ballet.

After ballet we came home for lunch (but starting next thurs we will be going straight to Ellie's swim lesson). Then this afternoon Dyllan had swim lessons.

Busy but super fun day with the kidos.

Tomorrow we are heading down to surfers paradise with a few mom friends for a beach day and a BBQ at one of my friends parents beach house. Woo hoo- bring on Friday and the weekend!

Scooter Found

On Friday night Dyllan, Ellie and I went down to the river to meet some friends at the park. It started to rain, so we headed to the car- and in the flurry to get the kids out of the rain, I must have left her scooter on the footpath next to the car. Doh.

I posted "missing" messages all over Facebook and littered the town with "lost Scooter" signs.

This morning I got a text from a runner saying she had found dyllans scooter next to my sign! Success!

I think I'm more happy than Dyllan!

My job as scooter detective has come to an end... Now what should we do today?!