Dad's away

Dad is away at the moment, he's up north visiting James, Cameron and Marcus. Might be a while before any new messages appear.

Optometrist Visit

This afternoon Courtney went to the Optometrist and he has told her that she needs to wear glassess when she is reading in class and for other things up close. CJ is fairly excited about getting her glasses in ten days or so.

Brooke has started a new routine of not going to bed. She insist on sitting in Mum's lap and although she falls asleep within minutes, it can't go on forever. Time will tell.

Speaking of people needing glassess, it has been suggested to Dad that he increase the font size in order to make the page easier to read... we'll try it for a while and see.

The Doctor visit

Courtney went to the Doctor today. Nothing serious she just has a little excema near her mouth on the right side of her face. She has some creme so hopefully it'll clear up in no time.


CJ's excema and two missing teeth

Off the hook

Courtney's postcard arrived today. All is forgotten.

Interesting

Courtney has (had) no idea what a typewritter is.

Grandma and Pa are in the bad books. "Someone" sent Brooke a postcard, but not Courtney.

Madagascar

Today Dad and the girls went to see Madagascar, at first Brooke was a little scared of being in the cinema but the pop corn and lollies soon took her mind off her worries. The movie itself wasn't too bad but not as good as some of the other great kids movies that have been released. Dad's opinion is to wait until the DVD comes out.

Tomorrow Nana and Grandad leave on their big trip. We hope they have a great time and that they come home soon.

Her Mother's Daughter - Keeping warm

Gymnastics Day

Dad got to go and see both Brooke and Courtney's gymnastic classes today. He thinks that Brooke likes jumping into the foam pit the most. There is no way that you'll get her anywhere near the bars. Seems she is going to be like her older sister and wait until she's older before she tries the monkey bars etc at school.

Courtney on the other hand is getting quite confident on the bars, she has taken well to doing forward rolls and hanging in the tuck position.

Both the girls have to learn how to listen, they are more than content to do their own thing - which is generally just mucking around.

Courtney's Swimming

With Dad being on afternoon shift, he managed to go and see Courtney's swimming class today. She has really improved over the last couple of months. She is now swimming laps by herself and duck diving to the bottom. It seems to have taken a long time but she is really getting the hang of it now. Amazing.

In other news, Pa is off his feet again after another visit to the Doctor. Get well soon. We're all thinking of and missing you.

Winter has arrived

Not much happened over the weekend as winter has arrived and lately, it has been far too cold and wet to do very much at all. The girls did make the best out of a bad situation and managed to convince Dad to take them back to the Fun Station so they could have a play. There are some recent photos on the other page.

Brooke is now confident enough in the water that she is starting to muck around and not listen to her swimming teacher. She just loves having her face in the water, which is not very productive when people are trying to talk to her. At least she is leaving her goggles on more these days.

Two down

Courtney's second tooth fell out yesterday and she received another two dollars from the tooth fairy. This time CJ pulled it out by herself when it was barely hanging by a thread anymore. She's pretty happy with the whole situation. Mum and Dad are just waiting to see if they stop falling out for a while now. At this rate she won't be able to chew her food by the end of the month.

Grandad's Birthday Dinner

Today we went to the duck park again. Brooke wanted to feed the ducks but there is a sign up asking people not to, so we couldn't. Brooke also made a little friend in the playground. Much to Dad's (and the other girl's parents) disgust, they both decided to make a run for the swings that were about 100 meters away. Brooke did not understand what the problem was.

Courtney is very proud of herself, it seems that going to gym is helping her build up her strength, she can now go back and forth across the monkey bars, something that she couldn't do a few weeks ago.

Tonight we all went to Chinese for Grandad's birthday. The girls ate their favourite dishes, hot chips and prawn crackers.

Courtney has another VERY loose tooth, another middle tooth on the bottom, it is so loose that she can wobble it. We expect that the tooth fairy will be paying another visit by the end of the week.

That's not how Nana does it

Firstly,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDAD

This morning the girls wanted pancakes for breakfast but Courtney was not going to settle for buying the mixture from the shops, she wanted the real deal made from scratch. Dad got out the flour, eggs etc and that just about bought tears from Courtney who wanted them made just like Nana's.

"You put some butter in the pan and swish it around, then you pour in some milk and make the pancakes. Nana doesn't have eggs in her pancakes"

Dad checked with Nana, her recipe does have eggs and flour. Courtney is still getting her head around the fact that cooked milk and butter does not make pancakes.

In other news, the girls have a new play room at Dad's house. With a lot of the toys being stored there are the moment, Dad has been forced to finally move all the packing boxes. In short the room (and a majority of the house) is littered with toys of all shapes and sizes.

Courtney's teacher is setting homework for a "teachers test" next week. Courtney has learnt how to spell and write some words - was, the, of, in, it ecetera...

New address

Mum and the girls have moved to Nana and Grandad's for a while. Nana and Grandad are going on a holiday and the girls are going to help Mum look after Cara. Only down side is that Chloe has to live like a dog, outside... during winter.

Mum and Dad both have the flu at the moment, the girls have gone close to catching it but they seem to be staying healthy.