Bailey starts Kinda

Well my baby is growing up. Yesterday, 5th February Bailey started his first day of Kinda.

Bailey especially likes puzzles so you often see him sitting at that table. In this first photo he is building 'cool' cars like the ones from the 'Cars' movie. He is in the same kinda class as Corbin, the little brother of Bellanna who Micayla went to kinda with and later went on to primary school together. He seemed to settle in really well and really enjoyed himself.

YAY!!!! Schools Back!!!

Micayla was as keen to get back to school as I was to send her. She was over being at home with me and missing her friends. I was over the trying to find something to keep them occupied. I just wanted to get back to routine. It's nice to be on holidays and to sleep in etc, but gee it's nice to be settled again.

Micayla is happy in 2E with Mrs Hamilton. It's has been a very easy start to the year for her as we already know Melinda Hamilton from Artypants. Yes; Micayla's Grade 2 teacher is the daughter/sister of my 'bosses' at Artypants. It's a shame we are going to lose her come May though, as she will be leaving us to have a baby. But very exciting for Melinda.

Family Day Fishing

It was a nice sunny Sunday afternoon. We decided we'd get the bikes out and go for a ride to Berwick Springs for a spot of fishing. Something Adrian has been promising the kids for ages. It was a slow ride for us. Bailey was peddling his little legs like crazy and we were just lesuirely riding along. Lucky we weren't doing it for fitness.





We caught nothing. The kids kept wanting to reel their lines in and throw them out again. They were too busy feeding the ducks too. I don't think we had any hope of catching any fish.

Bailey was trying to see the fish through the holes in the jetty.

Ah look, I managed to get on the other side of the camera again. Micayla took this photo. Not one of my best mind you. But I think Micayla is a budding photographer.

We rode home in a different direction, via the playground they were so eager to play on. Bailey was very very tired by the time we got home. It was a long way for his little legs to peddle.

Holiday Visitors

We had some visitors over the school holidays. My sister in law Wanda came over with my nephews Liam and Lachlan. They came for lunch and the kids were having a great time playing together. They stayed until around 7pm. It was great to catch up with Wanda and chat all day. It's been ages. She's so funny to listen to. Her stories are great and they make me laugh.




From left to right: Bailey, Lachlan, Liam and Micayla.

Then the following week Kerri came over with Jordan and Mitchell. I can't believe that Jordan is 2 years younger than Bailey and only about 2-3 inches shorter. Mitchell is such a quite placid baby, everytime you look at him he just gives you the biggest smile. At least he doesn't cry at me. I didn't get photos unfortunately. It would've been good to show the height difference between Bailey and Jordan.

Big Sky Wheel

Hey look, I actually managed to get into a photo.

Micayla and Bailey's Oma and Opa took us all along to the Giant Sky Wheel in the city during the school holidays. The kids had a ball. We were up so high and could see so far. The ride went for about 10 minutes and we were over it by the end. It was pretty cold and blowy when our carriage was at the very top. An announcement came over the speakers to stay seated in the carriage, cause I kept standing up, moving from side to side to get scenery shots.

I did manage to get some awesome scenery shots of the city though.

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This was on the opening day of the Australian Open so the tennis centre was full of activity. That's what you can see where there is blue. And the MCG behind that.

Looking down the Yarra River into the city.

And looking up the Yarra River away from the city.

When we got off the Sky Wheel, we got the kids an icecream each. And then Opa got us all some hot jam donuts. Bailey is devouring his donut while watching the boats on the Yarra River. He just loves donuts. He gave half his ice cream to Adrian, but Micayla finished all hers.
After their snack we went for a walk into Southbank, but along the way the kids spotted a playground.

Then we kept going, walking along the Yarra into Southbank. There are some sites/sights to see in the city. It was funny watching Adrian's father watching the 'lets say odd' people walk by. But they probably think we are odd??????

We decided it was time to go home, and we went via Mordialloc for fish n chips on the beach. But it had gotten quite cold by this stage and it would've been pretty blowy on the beach, so we ate in a park before going back to Adrian's parent for coffee. It was a really nice day out for all of us.

Home again and off again.

After we came home from the river and was all cleaned up, we packed up again and took a trip up to Ballarat to visit Mum and Dad and Rochelle, Mark, Kieran and Taylah. Bailey just loves dogs and is always excited to see Mum and Dad's little pug Ellie. My god has she put on some weight. She a little round ball. And apparently she'd lost some weight due to running around with Rochelle's boxer pup while Mum and Dad were looking after her when Rochelle and Mark went on holidays. Here is Bailey playing with both dogs. He shoved Ellie out of the kennel and hoped in himself.


It's hard to get a good shot of a dog when Bailey had them in head locks and they were trying to get away. That's why the photo of Monty is blurry.


And here is Micayla playing with Ellie too.

On the Friday night, we went around to Rochelle and Mark's. Taylah was having a sleepover at her friends behind their house, so Taylah came back for a little while. Kieran was busy on the computer and Adrian and Mark, Bailey and Micayla went into their hot tub. Too cold out there for Shell and I to hop in so we just stayed inside and caught up on all the goss. It was great being able to sit down and chat to my sister for ages. Haven't done that in a long time. I was missing it. It was unbelievable that we were having all those days around 40 degrees, then to go to Ballarat and it be too cold to have a spa outside.