Birthday Season is upon us again

It looks like I've been a little lazy with my blogging, I can't believe I haven't posted anything since September. I will definitely be making more of an effort.

It's March already. Our baby girl was six last Wednesday. (the 10th) It's crazy how fast the time flies. She is in year 1 at school, doing really well, and most importantly, loving it.

Here she is on her last day of being 5, the night before her birthday.

The next morning we were all up bright and early. Kenzie is usually my sleeper, I'm sure it was the excitement of it being her birthday that had her up early with the boys ready to open presents. She was born at 6:48 on a Wednesday morning, so as soon as the clock ticked over to 6:48 and she was officially six years old, with Kingston as her helpful assistant, she was ready to celebrate.

As always she was spoilt by Nana and Poppa.

Since it was a school day, she had to leave her presents behind and head off to school, she had a great day though, and the class sang Happy Birthday to her.

Meanwhile, the little chef and I had a busy day. We went to pick up the surprise birthday present and made the cake. Kenzie had picked a treasure island cake out of my book, it has mini m&m's buried in the cake. And Kingston decided it needed dinosaurs added to the top.

Time to count the candles on the cake.

oops, looks like someone got distracted from helping with the cake and decided to eat the frosting instead.

Once the kids came home, we had a little mini party for afternoon tea, here's Hunter showing off his silly face for the camera.

Kenzie got to choose anything she wanted for dinner, her menu was lamb cutlets with mashed potatos and vegetables.

Yummy!

After dinner we waited for craig to get home, then it was cake time.

The cake was delicious, and the kids had fun seeing if their was any buried treasure in their piece. Then it time for the surprise present.

Cover your eyes Kenzie.

A new bike.

Awesome!

The Sunday after her birthday, we had a little party for Kenzie at Hungry jacks. That's Burger King to the rest of the world. We ended up with 15 kids, and it all went really well. Poor Craig woke up that morning very sick, so we had to leave him home in bed.

Hungry jacks supply a party planner who keeps the kids busy and everything running along, the played pass the parcel.

And duck, duck, goose. Yes Kingy did try to join in every chase.

They played musical statues, there were some great dancers. And a game called straws.

Eventually they ate, and then it was cake time.

The party was great, the kids had lots of fun.

The Spring Fair

On the 23rd of September we woke up to this view out our front door, red dust was everywhere! It was by far one of the craziest things I have ever seen. I have to say my first thought was who got nuked? It looked like armageddon. By mid afternoon it was all but gone, travelling up the coast to Queensland and even across the Tasman to New Zealand.

Kingston got his new cast, and a haircut.

After a couple of weeks in plaster he was finally able to walk on his leg, which was great for me, because he was unbelievable heavy to carry around with it on, and great for him, because he could do whatever he wanted.

The kid's had their school spring fair on the 19th of September, it was lots of fun, there were games, rides, raffles, food and lots of fun activities.

Kenzie wanted to do jewellery making

she chose to do a bracelet

it turned out so cute

She found one of her classmates at the teacup ride

Hunter and his friend Liam rode the jeeps

They all got their hair coloured

Broken bones

On the Monday night after father's day, Kingston fell in the dining room, nothing exciting, just tripped over his own feet (skis) but he wouldn't walk. I was concerned but not too much, however by the morning he still wasn't walking and it was quite bruised, so after taking the kids to school we headed to the doctor. He took one look and sent us through to the children's hospital.

They gave him some pain medicine and sent us to x-ray.

Sure enough it was broken. They call it a toddler fracture, he probably twisted his foot when he fell, which broke the bone at the bottom of his leg. He was such a trooper through the whole ordeal, and even fell asleep while the doctor was plastering his leg.

They put on a split cast to allow for swelling and gave us an appointment to come back in a week for a full cast.

My mum came into town for a few days on the Thursday afterwards. We were so happy to have her visit, and on the Sunday her and I went to see WICKED. We both really enjoyed it.

Father's Day 2009

As usual we were up bright and early, after breakfast the kids gave Craig his presents.

Kingston was up first, he had hand painted the wrapping paper at playgroup.

He also made a photocard at playgroup.

Mackenzie went next

She had made a heart shaped card at school

And wrote a letter about why her dad is special to her. It was very cute. The picture is of her and Craig roller skating, which they haven't actually done before. A hint maybe????

And Hunter, the kids had taken money to school to shop at the father's day stall, he had picked out this travel mug.

And made a frame with a picture of him in at school.

Kingston napping in his suitcase, he's always got to find somewhere else to sleep.

After naps we took the kids to the playground, Craig and Hunter rode their bikes and I took the other 2 in the car.

Not hard to guess who this crazy haired shadow belongs to.

Blue Mountains trip

Craig had to work on the Saturday before father's day, so I got together with a friend and we took the six kids out to the blue mountains. It took about an hour to get out there, it's a nice scenic drive, but of course the was one part when we were almost there where the road was winding and I heard a little voice from the back say "I think I have to throw up". Oh Mackenzie! Luckily I was able to toss back something for her to use. Then we made a quick stop to dispose of the evidence.

The kids were happy to get out of the car and stretch their legs for a few minutes.

That's Sydney city you can see way way way in the distance.

We made another brief stop in Katoomba where we grabbed some food for lunch.

After lunch, we were off to see the mountains.

Here's Gretch and the kids heading to the walking tracks.

Our little monkeys.

The view from the top is quite spectacular

There's a cable car you ride across in to get a great view. We didn't this time, but the kids really want to go back with Craig, so I'm sure we'll do it then.

Kingy doing some rock climbing, yes he has a car in his hand......he never leaves home without one!

Gretchen and her 3 girls.

After walking the tracks for a while we got some ice-creams and the kids played at the playground. The trip home was very quiet, everyone was tired after our big day out.