Adventures in April & May

It has been a busy two months with Paul's parents here for a visit. We spent Easter at Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road and William had lots of days out with Grandma and Grandpa and was a very spoilt little boy for play mates. We spent a week with both sets of grand parents in Mulwala, NSW.

He has a couple more teeth and is also walking now and talking lots (we still can't understand him) but we get the gist of what he wants, most of the time!!

These pictures aren't in any order as such just a selection of some of the hundreds taken by William's grandparents.

William is at his first day of child care today - he is going once a week to mix with other children. He didn't bat an eye when I left!!!!


Out to lunch with Grandma and Grandpa

I love the camera - at John and Susan's house at Coronet Bay

Fun with Grandpa

Not so close Mummy!

Nanna, Mummy and Me at an animal farm in Mulwala, NSW - in the rain, patting Bunny Rabbits

Lunch with Mummy on the beach

Out for lunch with Grandma and Grandpa

Playing with my cousins after an easter egg hunt

Patting a fish that Grandpa caught but was too small to keep

My first Easter Eggs

Apollo Bay Beach sand castles

Adventures in Daddy down the Great Ocean Road

Where else - Food with Grandpa

Hey - your on my slide!

William loves climbing the slide at the playground

Puffing Billy

At the beach with Grandma and Grandpa

Fun in the playground

I'm on top of the World!!

Otway Fly with Daddy

Dessert with Grandma

March has been a busy month camping at the annual 4WD event in Dargo for 3 nights, Paul's parents arriving for an 8 week visit, a trip to the Melbourne Zoo as well as several trips to the beach.

Dargo was quite cold at night but as the day warmed up William was crawling everywhere getting into all sorts of mischief!! Not a bit like his father!!!

William is almost walking and is full of beans laughing and playing with his grandparents and having lots of lovely day trips to the beach and the park while I try to get some jobs done around the house - as well as the occassional day out with the girls.

A bad cold and a bout of gastro have kept us from swimming lessons for a couple of weeks and we are on the Easter break now, but William has had lots of fun at the beach - see the pictures below.

Paul bought back a fishing game from his last trip to China and William loves to throw the fish from our bed while daddy uses the magnetic fishing rod to pick them up - he laughs as he throws them further and further away Daddy to reach!!!

Paul and William had a day out at the Melbourne Zoo - William loved the Butterfly house and got up close and personal - nose to nose on the glass - with a Gibbon!!

William's very first word was dirty - but that doesn't count as he hasn't said it again but he has said Turtle over and over again as he has a bath book with a picture of a turtle in it and a plastic turtle which squirts water. His latest game is seeing how wet he can get mummy while he is having a bath - he thinks it is hilarious!!

At Melbourne Zoo


Out with Grandma

At the Beach

Cake at Playgroup

Gone Fishing with Daddy

Camping at Dargo for a long weekend

Watching Dad bat in the cricket game - I don't think he's doing too well!! Whilst eating watermelon

How much Watermelon can one little boy eat??


More Food!!!

Too much food and fun and games for one little boy

Ooh - Daddy's Car!!

In the Bush

Very cold mornings

Chesterfield Farm

Paul spent last Sunday volunteering in the fire areas clearing trees with some friends from the Range Rover Club, so William and I went to Chesterfield Farm with friends from Mother's Group - Rebecca, Owen and Esther.

We watched a cow being milked, a sheep dog at work rounding up sheep, and a shearer shearing a sheep -the rest of the time was spent in the Nursery with the baby animals.

I think William would have enjoyed it even more if he was walking - Esther is walking and she just ran around looking at all of the baby animals - I couldn't let William crawl around on the hay and droppings all over the barn but I did get him out of the pram to go into the bunny enclosure to pat a bunny rabbit when we could get hold of them - they were hiding under the hay bale from all the little kids!

Here are a few photos

Look at the goats Mummy!!



There is a fluffy bunny hiding under here!

I can touch the bunny Mummy!

Looking for more bunnys!!

William and I were driving home one day last week, when he started laughing, I looked in the mirror to see him trying to put his foot in his mouth - it was really funny and he kept trying to do it - when we got home, I told him to do it again and he understood, so I snapped this shot - not quite in the moment but it made me laugh!

See what I can do!!