Stax has happened since the last update!

Be warned!!! This is a really long post. But probably made up mostly of photos.

On Thursday 30th October Bailey's kinda group decided to have a dress up day for Halloween. Bailey does not do the dressing up thing unless it's as his 'Superdog' costume, which he made up himself. The costume is Micayla's mouse costume but Bailey pretends to be a dog in it. We found a superdog picture on the internet. Can you believe that, this is something Bailey made up in his own head and we could still find a picture on the internet for a Superdog. The Superman next to him is his friend Corbin, brother to Micayla's friend Bellanna, who went to Kinda with Micayla.

When we were getting packed to go to Moama for Cup Weekend Bailey hopped in the esky with Monty. Usually he locks Monty in there by himself, but decided to hide in there with him this time. Poor Monty! He puts up with so much from Bailey.

Micayla is really getting good on the skies now. She's such a natural and she's so excited that after her second attempt on the bigger double skies, she managed to go outside the wake. Before we know it she'll be on one ski.

She's even more confident on the kneeboard. She came in saying she'd done a 360 while out behind the boat. This is her in the middle of a 360 after she returned to shore and let go of the rope. She looks so good out there. (David and Laura; wait till you see her this Christmas, you won't believe your eyes, you'll see a MASSIVE difference).

I managed to get her to 'strike a pose' without looking 'dicky' for a change. I love this messy windblown photo of her.

Adrian watching on while driving the boat.

This is the 2nd of November. Micayla's 8th Birthday. You can see by the photo what she got.

I scrapped this box for her to keep her games and DS in. This was a box given to her a long time ago and she's been nagging me to scrap it for her. So I did it for her birthday.

And then I made a matching card. Using AED hot set powder and glitter and the 'dress' stamp is also from AED. I also stamped this using the hotset powder and glitter.

That morning we took the kids out to the State Forest at Five Mile Boat Ramp for the kids to ride their motorbikes. Micayla is handling the new CRF80 really well. We just kept it in the one gear for her. We mainly wanted to her to get the feel of riding the bigger bike and being able to start and stop it without it falling on her. It's so much heavier for her and it's hard for her to reach the ground. She got the hang of stopping and leaning to one side to get one foot on the ground. Once she's confident with that, we'll teach her how to change gears. She has to learn how to manage the clutch, which is a big step for her. But we know she will be able to get the hang of it pretty quickly. She's good at picking things up and is determined to make it work.

Bailey on the other hand, doesn't want people to see he can't do something so is not so keen to try. But with a little persuasion it doesn't take much for him to have a go. He is good too, he just doesn't realise it and is worried people will laugh at him if he stuffs up. He likes to make sure he can do something before he lets other people see him do it. The kind of person that will practise something before letting others see him do it.

After lunch we sang Micayla Happy Birthday with all her friends in the annexe. We were going to do it outside but we couldn't keep the candles lit. No where really to do it in the annexe except on the bench that keeps all out stuff and water barrel on it. As you can see in the photo. Not an ideal place for an ideal shot.

This is just a photo of Bailey I took and liked. He's chewing on a piece of wood he found on the ground. eeewww!!!

He's very independent these days and does everything for himself. After walking back up from the river, his feet were very dirty. So he decided to climb onto the bench and wash his feet in the 'sink' that sits under our water barrel.

After dinner, Adrian decided to relax and play Micayla's DS.

That night the kids all sat in our van for a movie night. They watched 'Nims Island' on the laptop with lollies and pop corn and made a mess all over the 'cinema' floor. Thanks Jenny for giving us that DVD, the kids all enjoyed it.

On the Monday we managed to get Bailey out on the skies. He's waterskied before, but wasn't so keen this time around. He's worried about falling off, cause 'he doesn't like that bit'. It was also colder and windier, which doesn't make it very inviting to get into the water. I chose not to ski that day because of the weather. Got to be hot for me. At least Saturday was a nice hot day for me to ski.

He fell off the first time, that's why he's crying so much here.

He was happy enough while he was up.....

Then he fell off, wanted in the boat and was cold.

And now being kept warm by Daddy and giving me cheek.

Once he was warm and happy again he went bug hunting and found a ladybug.

He was talking quietly to it in this shot.

Then Brandon found one too.

From then on he kept it in a cup. We were encouraging him to let it go because it would die in the cup. He assured me it wouldn't because it had a big hole at the top and he gave it leaves to eat. Well later it did die, but he said he was just sleeping. He got busy playing chasy with the kids and the cup was lying on the ground on it's side, so I got rid of the ladybug, so we didn't have to go through the whole burriel thing. He was devastated. We told him that it woke up and because he'd left it lying on the side he got out. We said he had to go home to his mum and dad for dinner, and that you would want to come home to us if someone was keeping you locked up. He understood and went back to playing. The things you do as parents LOL. The next day he went on a hunt for millipeades and had half a cup full. EEEEWWWW!!!!! Boys??????????

It was Tuesday 4th, (Cup Day) and the day we were leaving to go home. It was also Bailey's 5th birthday.

His presents were a Thomas the Tank wooden track rollercoaster set and a Lighting McQueen boom Box.

This is the card I made him.

Cup day is a really crappy day to have a birthday because it is spent packing up the campsite in the morning and then stuck sitting in a car for 4 hours driving home. Then when we get home its all about unpacking and cleaning up. Because Micayla had a cake with all her friends we wanted to do the same for Bailey. We went to KFC for lunch as we always do as a group. I'd bought a cake to have at KFC after we'd eaten. But they were renovating KFC and you could only go through the drive through. It was all too hectic and we would be waiting for ever, not to mention we didn't trust KFC to get 3 orders from the 1 car right, so we abandoned that idea. We knew that once we got in our cars we would end up stopping at different places that suited the individual families, so we gave Bailey his birthday cake on the side of the road before making our way home. Again we couldn't keep the candles lit with the wind so we only lit 1 candle. Bailey was happy though. He loved everyone singing happy birthday. We all had a piece of the yummy white chocolate mud cake, but Bailey had about 4. At least that kept them satisfied (a little bit) for another half hour till we got to Rochester, where we could stop for something to eat.

Back at home the next day Bailey was having a ball playing with his new Thomas tracks; added to his old tracks.

Now this week has been a busy week, decorating their birthday cakes for their combined party at the Dandenong Rollerskating Rink on Saturday, before everyone heads back to our place for a night of partying. Any excuse!!!! I feel a bit lost, because I'm all organised and not stressed, running around like an idiot. I've got nothing else to do but update my blog. I guess I needed to get this out the way though because there will be more to share next week after the party. I'll share the cakes then too.

Until next week. Thanks for making it this far.