Mackenzie at 1 week - more on the photo page

Welcome Mackenzie Kate

A great answer

Mum (inspecting the days lunchbox) : "Courtney, you didn't eat your apple"
Courtney : "I don't have any teeth" (flashing and pointing to her one tooth smile)

The sore head

Courtney got hit in the head with a rock today. Apparently the rock was about the same size as her head… I guess were lucky that she wasn’t seriously hurt. It appears that Isaac was trying to build big muscles in order to impress one of the girls in year five and he accidentally lobbed the rock on Courtney’s head as he threw it down – something like that.

Happy Mothers Day

On Friday the girls played up at netball, they were obviously making themselves well known the staff at the netball centre. One of the ladies told Mum that they were running around, causing a disturbance, the girls version is that they were being chased by boys.

As punishment for their ruckus at the netball, the girls have been banned from watching television, playing on the Playstation or using the computer all weekend and it must be said that they took it very well. In fact, Courtney spent most of the weekend reminding people that she had to obey the rules.

This morning the girls jumped into bed with Grandma and without trying, made her Mothers Day rather special. There was tears though when Brooke wanted to give Grandma’s card to Mum because she liked the butterflies on the cover… Guess who gave in first, Grandma or Brooke?

This afternoon, we took the bikes for a ride, which the girls always love doing and then the girls had their first ever ride on the back of a ute. Honestly, we only went about 5 km/h.

This weekend coming the girls are going on holidays with Nana and Granddad and they are really looking forward to getting away and going fishing.

Historical Event

Grant Webb and Todd Russell are freed after being trapped for 14 days in a gold mine in Beaconsfield, Tasmania.

It begins

Grandma and Pa have arrived in town and the girls are jostling for Pa’s attention. Last night, Mum took the girls over their house to say hello and it appears that Pa paid too much attention to Brooke so suddenly Courtney had a sore throat and needed to be carried out to the car when it was time to go. There will be some interesting times ahead.

This weekend the girls are off to Brookton to visit Maddison, Courtney’s mate from school last year.

Not much to report

Today the girls went to Holly's 4th birthday party. It was a fairy party so the girls got to dress up in their outfits (photos on the other page)

It starts early

Today, Mum showed Dad how Courtney had collected over $70.00 in birthday, Christmas and Tooth Fairy money. Courtney wanted to go to the shops and spend $10.00 on buying some magnets. Like all good young ladies, she ended up coming home from the shops after spending 3 times more than she had planned. CJ spent $35.00 odd dollars on buying a board game.

Dad is now banned on taking Courtney shopping. Rightly so as Mouse Trap, the board game she bought has about 30 small parts and if a single piece goes missing it won't work. Not to mention that it's a little bit advanced for Brooke and there are bound to be some arguments coming up.

Donnybrook

Over the last few days, the girls have been down South. On Saturday we drove down to Donnybrook where the girls got to meet Isobelle and Aidan. The girls had a really great time, playing, feeding the neighbour's chickens and what ever else we could find to do. Dad had a good time drinking the local moonshine.

On Sunday we all took a day trip over to Nannup and had a BBQ (sometimes in the rain) at Barrabup Pool. The girls had a great time helping collect firewood, throwing dead leaves in the air and trying to catch marron with sticks. Both the girls were quite amazed that food could be cooked over a fire.

On the way home today, we dropped in an saw Dad's boss. Whilst playing there we found out that Courtney is above par with a hula-hoop.

Courtney's Birthday

Courtney seems to have had a great day. One of the special highlights was when she let Brooke open one of her presents, for no other reason than wanting Brooke to feel apart of it. I doubt that the little sister would have been so generous.

Obviously CJ got spoilt, jewellery, clothes, a television and a lamp for her room, pencils etc.

Instead of a party, Courtney wanted to go to the cinemas, which was fine with Mum and Dad. We took CJ's school friend, Mya (Dad'll check that spelling) and we watched Ice Age II which was pretty good.

Tonight we all had dinner at Nana and Grandad's house and Nana made fried rice just for Courtney becuase that's what she wanted for her birthday dinner.

Dad's camera went flat during the day, Hopefully we'll get some of the photos that Uncle Brad took soon.

Turn on your Child Locks

For some unknown reason, Brooke had an absolute brain fizzle today and decided it would be a good idea to open the door of a moving car, giving Nana and Grandad heart attacks in the process. None of us can understand why she would even contemplate doing such a thing...

In better news, here is a sneak preview of Courtney's birthday tomorrow.

Easter time

Well, without very much fuss being made at all, the Easter Bunny came to the girls house again this year. It really didn't seem to be a very big event for either of the girls, not that they are complaining about the Easter Eggs.

Now we're all getting ready for school holidays and most importantly, Courtney's birthday on Wednesday. She is not having a party this year, she is taking a friend, Maya, to the movies to go and see Ice Age II

P.S - If anyone can see a 7 year old in the photo above - don't tell her grandparents

A new scar

Brooke came home from school the other day, sporting a new graze to her forehead. Nothing serious, just one of those little bumps on the head she'll get from running where she shouldn't.



Also worth mentioning. Courtney was telling Dad how she found out the other night that she quite likes "French Food" - satay sticks, spring rolls... that sort of thing.

Mum recalls that is was Thai. We have no idea where CJ got French.

Happy Birthday Mum

Today the girls had an Easter Parade at their school. All of the classes made Easter hats and then the kids got to show them off. The girls are starting to get keen on the idea of the Easter Bunny coming to town. They are not as excited as at Christmas time, just a general interest but no counting down the days just yet.

'No Boys Allowed'

Don't remember if it has been mentioned in the past. For about a month now, Brooke has left a little cushion with "No Boys Allowed" written on it, guarding the threshold to her bedroom. Even when she is upset and crying, boys (including Dad) are not allowed in her bedroom.

Sorry

Another week that is light on information. We can report that Brooke is very proud to be her classes "Tap Monitor", it's her job to make sure that the tap is turned off - very big responsibility for a 4 year old.

Dad's going out this weekend, celebrating two years in the city and then a wedding on Saturday. Maybe there will be some new photos on Sunday.

No News week

Not really much to report this week. Dad has been working too many hours and has not seen very much of the girls this week. Maybe soon there will be some more tales to tell.

Where did he go?

An interesting story from the weekend.

While the girls were on their way to Adventure World, they were chatting away together in the car. Dad manage to catch the tail end of a conversation which ended with Courtney saying, "I don't know where he died, I guess he went back to Queensland."

When quizzed Courtney told Dad that she and Brooke had been talking about Easter and where Jesus was when he died.

We're guessing Pa had something to do with this?

Adventure World (again)

The girls went to Adventure World again today. As always they had a great time although Brooke was a bit 'standoffish', not wanting to go down the water slides or go swimming. Still they went of a few rides and were really good (understanding) when they had to take turns or miss out on doing certain things because of the odd number.

Maybe next year, we'll only go once. We don't think the girls (as always) understand how good they have it.