Suzi, Soozie and our peeps

Here's us all at the beach. We had dinner at a little pizzeria nearby that had a grand piano in the shop. The owner/cook was a piano teacher and one of the locals played jazz while we ate our very delicious pizzas.

Sooz and Suz

Joshua and Lucas trying to get a go on Carl's board

Emily

Steve skim boarding. I have a short clip of Soozie falling on her butt but I won't put that one on.. for now :o)

Like Gramps Like Grandson

Rolls - Post - Tak

Rolls Riley
Lucas the postman
Tak! We couldn't help open Riley's now. See how hard he's gripping the magnet :o) Nice on the gums

Cheekier Monkey

This little monkey is cheeky for a few reasons;

• His bottom for one, is the biggest most delicious peach I've ever had the pleasure to squish.
• His eyes sparkle with excitement when he sees something he's not allowed that's been left on the carpet in reach.
• He giggles delightfully at everyone everywhere, especially Lucas who he adores and wants to pat on the head, slobery kiss and nose rubs while they're snuggled up in Lucas' bed waiting for story time.
• He's strong and has ambitions to run and dance before he could crawl. (He had them in the womb the little disco bopper!)
• Now he can crawl forwards (he started crawling backwards on holiday in the sand) he already makes mess and pulls himself up on things (with imminent head bumps).
• His favourite words at the moment are a deep "Daaaa Daaa"
• He sees Lucas on his "new" electric motor bike and is only happy when he can follow on the trike.

Tropical Fruit World (It really does exist).

Tropical Fruit World Train

Lucas found a girlfriend but was more interested in the other birds.

Tropical Fruit World, girlfriends, wildlife, feeding the farm animals, putt putt golf, boat rides, train rides, tractor rides and over 500 varieties of fruit is very tiring. The journey home.

Coolangatta

This is where we stayed.
Swimming pools, water slides, spa, deck chairs and when you got bored of all that
it is just 40 meters to the beach and shops.

Ice Man (Pancake Palace - Coolangatta)

Trip to Coolangatta

Sunrise on the Pacific.

Lucas feeding two hungry calf's at "Tropical Fruit World"

Lucas ans Suzi going down a water slide. Yes Lucas really is in here! In blue.

Went for a walk along the beach and found this great jump rock.

Nothing better than a good jump.

Suzi and Lucas digging in the sand.

Sitting watching the swell.

It's 5.30am and Lucas had been up for almost an hour and would NOT go back to sleep so we went for an early walk. Half way there he says "Tired...bed". Daddy say's "Grrrrrrrrr"

Riley LOVED the sand. Loved to face plant it ALL the time.

"Mmmmmmmm......gritty".

Daddy and Riley at Dusk on Coolangatta.

Coolangatta at Dusk.

"What?.......What?.......I can eat all the butter if I want!!"

Dramarama

What's Fireman Sam going to do next??

Oooh! Scarey bit!Far og baby snak Viking

Lucas applying mascara after he saw me getting ready for church last Sunday. I have a clip of him talking to baby (sitting in the pram next to him) saying,
"baby.. it's me.. (smiles at himself in the mirror).. niiice!"

Meeting with the boss.

Here's Riley in the boss' chair.

You can hear him say "mama" in this one. He's been saying it for weeks but we rarely get it on camera.

I took him to the Dr's for his immunisations a few weeks ago and asked her to check Riley's ears as he kept tipping his head a few times on one side and then the other. In her professional opinion he was trying to play peekaboo. Ears were fine :o)

Green Birdy

Lemons are the theme - YUM!

Ok, so now the lemons are ripe and ready we've been eating lemon roast chicken, lemon oil steamed veg.. lemon everything - and we love it!
Lucas prefers to gnaw on the bark of the tree..

This is the yummiest lemon (and raspberry) muffin recipe.
Bad picture I know.. I just kept getting too close as they smelt and tasted sooooo good.This is the carob swirl bread recipe but I used cocoa and made the plain bread oat and honey. It was .. Okay.

All from the same cookbook - The Enchanted Broccoli Forest> Finally getting brave enough to make some.

Play School

There were a few tickets left for the afternoon show at the RSL on Tuesday so we took the boys.

Riley got right into it all and jumped the whole time (then flaked out)
You can just about see Lisa on the left. She's a friend from church who we bumped into.




Daddy and Lucas watching the show. Ruby's in there too somewhere.
It was all a bit too loud and perky for me. (Haven't had much sleep :o)