Monday, March 29, 2010

A Play at the Park


Polly started at Mobile Day Care last week & surprisingly settled in very well, thought she would be terrified as she has not had any time away from mum so far. She loved all the new toys & girly things & of course the other babies.....there are actually five babies booked in which is amazing for Muttaburra. Polly especially took to the small broom & took off with it!!













Had a lovely play in the park at Charters Towers last week, after travelling 4 hours very well. Phew!! Stayed the night & did a quick pickup of assorted things & home again early the next day.








Thursday, February 25, 2010

Riding Lessons

Swimming Lessons






We all love our weekly swimming lessons at the Muttaburra Aquatic Centre...lovely new pool & facilities we are very very lucky to have such a great water hole. Our lessons are at lunchtime on Sundays & Toby is first up followed by Polly. There are 3 to 5 in each lesson, so everyone gets a quick play with other kids while we wait. Polly snacks a lot beside the pool & I cannot take my eyes off her or else.....splash, one overboard!!!







Saturday, February 20, 2010

Chinese New Year - Year of the Tiger








We travelled up to Townsville last weekend for Chinese New Year celebrations with our Adoption Group....lots of fun with great food & dragon dancing. Toby loved the fortune cookies
and much to our horror wanted a plate of hot chips.....can you believe it!! He did however try the chicken & corn soup, which was "okay". He usually loves noodles & rice at home, must have been all the excitement & people that put him off his food. He was spotted several times with a gorgeous little blond.....










Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Birthday Boy Turns Four Today


The Birthday Cake requested was a snake.....can you believe it!! It was the best I could do with minimal resources i.e. No access to shops due to ongoing "big wet" for decorations etc. Thankfully Gran stashed some jelly beans in with the birthday parcel..YAY for Gran!
And Toby washed up for me after the cake was eaten.....a budding star in the kitchen I hope!



A small experimental video.....our video camera crashed (or the new battery did) so resorted to camera video which seemed to work well enough. Hope to improve the movie director in me.

As you will see & hear, 4 fingers means 3 & when mum says another one we add another finger....these Taiwanese sure do interesting mathematics!!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

More Rainy Days


Toby driving his car around the playroom during the wet......too muddy for outdoors at present


A piece of garden sculpture that David made last year, survived the cyclonic conditions last night . No doubt the poor tree limb it hangs off has been comprimised a tad.

We had 4 inches of rain last night & cyclonic conditions, was quite scary the roar of the wind & wondering what was being blown away. It was all part of ex-tropical cyclone Olga & her passage south. Looks like we are hemmed in again for a while.