Bits and pieces

Here are some photos taken in July when my family visited.

Isabella and her cousin Lily



My Dad and Step-Mum and their 'flowers' (one flower is missing - Hannah who was unable to make this trip).



I'm also downloading a gorgeous video of Isabella and Tahlia dancing to Hannah Montana this afternoon - very cute.

No more news on the pool front - although hopefully by the end of the month I'll be able to show you photos of the finished product. The pool anyway, not the landscaping/fencing.

I've gotta go and finish dinner (roast pork MMMMM) and there is also ironing calling out to me - "BE QUIET". Hehehehehe don't think it heard me.

Take care my loved ones!

Bart

Tahlia's kindy teacher bailed me up today as I was picking her up.

"Tahlia cracks me up!" she said.

Apparently all the children were sitting down (quietly) about ready to have morning tea.

Tahlia pipes up in a loud voice "I did a fart!"

Well thanks for sharing Tahlia.

All the ladies at kindy seem to find Tahlia eccentricities adorable - which is a good thing I guess.

We, her family, however, find her very trying at times.

Have lots to update but just wanted to quickly write this post.

PS the reason I called it 'bart' is because this is how Tahlia usually pronounces the word!

6 years ago

Isabella was born a little after 5.30pm on July 8th. She weighed 5 pounds 14.5 ounces.



Isabella on her first birthday.



Isabella about 2 years old (who incidently in this photo is a dead ringer for Tahlia - or I should Tahlia is a dead ringer for her!)



Isabella riding her new bike at her 3rd birthday party at Harbour Park.




And at her 4th birthday party celebrated at our house with her kindy friends.



Last year when Isabella turned 5.

I will update with the latest photo soon!

I can't believe my 'baby' is 6 already. She is having a nice holiday so far. Last week she spent with Michael and they went to the movies, bowling and bike riding. This week has really only begun but we are going to the movies tonight with her friend from school and Bella is EXTRA excited because it's her first 'night' movie! Hehehe.

I have my Dad and step-Mum coming tomorrow and then my step sister and two neices coming on Saturday. Can't wait!

Birthday Boy

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  Happy 33rd birthday my darling husband!
  
  Isabella and Tahlia were more than happy to 'help' unwrap presents and help with blowing out the candles on the cake!
  
  In other breaking news....
  
  We have a hole for our pool and tomorrow they will pour the concrete.
  
  
  
  And Isabella had her first school disco - which was the cutest thing I ever did see. She excitedly told me that they were to stay at the disco 'until midnight' hehehe! In reality it was from 5.30pm to 7pm. The preps, grade 1 to 3 had a great time.
  
  
  
  And I'm so HAPPY I have worked out that I can use Photobucket to upload photos/videos with a MUCH better result than the inbuilt upload feature of blogger - yeehaaa!!
  
  

A trip away

We had a little holiday this long weekend and drove to Townsville (some 4 hours north) to watch the football and have some 'quality' family time together.

Truth be told I was a litte worried about how the girls would go on the long drive - we don't travel long distance by car very often.

I am happy to report they did GREAT!

We left Friday about 4pm. Made it to Bowen where we stopped for dinner. Pulled out the laptop and put on a movie and the girls were both asleep within the hour.

Arrived in Townsville just after 9pm.

We stayed in a hotel on The Strand which was lovely. Although we had a room right opposite the lifts so it was a bit noisy during the night when the drunken yahoo's were coming home from their night out.

The next day we spent some time at The Strand having lunch and letting the girls have a good play. Tahlia and I went back to the hotel for her nap - I watched 'Weekend at Bernies' on pay tv (remember that film? I loved it!).

That evening we went to Dairy Farmers and watched a football game (Cowboys vs Rabbitohs). Cowboys (home team/'our' team) flogged the 'bunnies'.

Isabella and Tahlia loved it! Tahlia had her clacker and clacked and cheered each time the Cowboys scored (which was often!) She loved the characters (bunny, lightbulb (?!), Blue Heeler and of course the cheerleaders as they did the rounds of the football field.

It was all too much for Bella though - she fell asleep before the end of the game.

The next morning we visited with old friends who have two boys around the same ages as ours (Hi to Tony, Jo, Declan and Nate!) in their new (ginormous) house and had a great catch up. They even fed us before we hit the road for the trip home.

Put a movie on straight away. Tahlia was asleep almost instantly and Bella was happy to watch her movie.

Tahlia slept 3/4 of the way home and Bella even had a little nap.

All in all a very successful trip! Will definately consider doing it again!

Michael and his dad spent Monday double paling the fence in our backyard. Big job but looks great! I did 500 loads of washing!

Spoke to our pool guy this week and we have had a little delay (due to our public holiday on the 18th). Things are all systems go for Sun 21st - Tue 23rd.

Incidently it is Michael's birthday on the 22nd - any ideas on what I can buy him?!?

Asleep

Tahlia and I had our Thursday together today. We went and visited my Mum during her usual nap time and so she didn't get her nap today. She was pretty feral come 6pm, so I let her watch Wiggles while I made dinner.

By the time Michael got home she was asleep on the beanbag.

So we are about to sit down to dinner and she wakes up sooky. She wanders around, sits at the table, sooks, hops down, wanders around, sooks, gets back up on her seat at the table, half hops down so she is laying half on the seat with her legs dangling down.

I thought she was having another sook so we all kept eating our dinner.

Nope too quiet - she had fallen asleep!

Wish I had taken a photo - it was too cute!

Isabella has her first sports carnival tomorrow. She is in the 'green' team. This afternoon as I picked her up from school all the kids (except the Preps) were practicing their chants - should be nice and loud down at the oval tomorrow!

I think the Preps only go down for 2 hours to do a race and some ball games. Remember ball games??? I loved them. Already the pressure seems to be on though, Bella was saying her team is 'no good' and 'won't win a medal' - how sad! I tried to tell her it wasn't about winning but about having fun.

Long weekend - yay!!!!!!!!!!! Good on you Queen for having a birthday, even though it isn't this weekend! hehehehehe!