Amy & Naomi

They used paper plates to make their hats and each of the children had a great time decorating and painting their special Christmas party hat!

Victoria and Amy enjoyed easel painting. They particularly liked mixing the different colours together.

The kindy had their break up/ Christmas party and the children were putting on a play of the 12 days of Christmas... they had been learning other Christmas carols too, like Jingle bells, but Amy got shy and didn't want to sing or be in the play. Gemma LOVES babies... and Naomi gets loads of cuddles when we come to drop Amy off and when we pick her up. Naomi likes the cuddles... but she also loves to go exploring... Gemma doesn't like her exploring, to which Naomi now has a little tanty about and tries to 'escape'. Amy and Gemma were playing together after the bbq lunch on the rope equipment. Amy is truly a little monkey.

Amy and Jessica painted at the easel, while Baxter and Jade helped each other complete all of the puzzles! Jessica, Riley FP, Amy, Chelsea and Baxter all enjoyed playing on the “jumping castle”! They had a competition to see who could jump the highest!

Since Amy was going to a concert with the Grandies and sleeping over at lunch to be ready to go... Chris and I took Naomi out for lunch and then we were meeting Mum and Dad after the concert. Chris keeps promising Naomi that she can ride in the scooter... and here she is... she doesn't fit where you put the helmet... don't know why... hahaha We then went to the shamrock for dinner... Amy had a good time at the concert and made a friend that was tall enough to let her in and out of the kids area. Finally it was Naomi's actual birthday... she is a Big 1 year old now. A big thank you to Kel, Adam, Seth and Abby for her wonderful dress that she is modelling. Happy Birthday Beautiful Naomi... may all your dreams come true!

Forgetting that Amy was going to a concert with her Grandies on Monday, we organised a family get together at the Warwick RSL so that we could also see Noni and Jimbo. The doll was meant to be a fairy like the pink one, but I forgot to put her wings on... but I think she looks pretty good without them. Noni had only just gotten home and had some stories to share and Jimbo was looking a little toasty after a rum and coke. Mum and Dad have been really busy and virtually haven't been home. .. they seem to almost look like they were getting sick of not eating at home. John and Gail... It was Gail's brother Neil's birthday on the 1st so I think they were getting tired of all the socialising and demand on their time... I think we all could have done with curling up on the couch and watching a movie... but we all had a good night. I think Naomi liked her cake as she... well she liked the icing at the very least.

On Saturday we had some friends join us for a BBQ in Laurel Bank Park to help us celebrate Naomi's 1st birthday... fortunately we had good weather and great to catch up with the Traceys, Daniels and the Trzcinskis and Aunty Gail and Uncle John. Naomi loves her presents even though Amy has claimed most of them as hers... actually the only ones Amy hasn't claimed are Uncle Johns charms and the Daniels bracelets (we'll be hitting you up for dental bills!) I think these are great photos of Aunty Gail and Naomi playing... Naomi was laughing so hard. So this is the birthday cake... While at home Amy saw the fairy had no legs... but did see them next to the cake... she ran in from the kitchen and said to me 'Mummy fix', handing me the fairy and the legs... you could see that it was rather troublesome thing for her to comprehend... a doll with no legs... so I fixed the fairy, only to have to remove her legs again to use her on the cake. A family pic which pretty much was th...

We finally made it to Canberra at 7:15pm... It was a very bright 7:15 for us and makes me very thankful that we don't have daylight saving as there is almost no way our girls were going to sleep with the sun still blaring into the unit. It did make playing at Maccas just outside of Yass easy though. Sunday morning we went off to Questacon and Amy was very intrigued with the huge granite ball that she could roll around.There was a lot of algae on the cube block that Amy's top got covered in and it was absolutely disgusting! Thank goodness we had planned to change her before going to the party. This is the Dunstan's... from left to right is Anne, Eloise, Timothy, Chris, Bridget. Then we went off to Eloise's 1st Birthday party... we told Anne we were coming... but yet she was still surprised and screamed on our arrival... intriguing all the guests and gave Chris a minor heart attack as he came running to her aide (sorry Chris!). We had a lovely day and heard many storie...

Election weekend we went for a short family holiday down to Canberra. On the way we stopped in at Dubbo and went to the zoo... I thought that 2 days would be way too long to go visiting the zoo, but I was wrong. We saw Giraffes and Elephants, Tigers and Lions (which got called Horrie), Hippos and Rhinos. Amy was very very very excited to see Giraffes. We were a little disappointed as the Zebra's were not on display cause of the horse flu... which is fair enough. We did a behind the scenes tour on the second day and we got to feed a black rhino. We also got to walk through the night enclosure of the giraffes and we got about 3 metres away from them as the tour guide fed them a branch... Amy was in absolute awe. The tigers were a little bit lacking as it was after lunch and hot... we walked around to some 'monkeys', which are out on an island... amy took her shoes off and started to take her shorts off to go for a swim out to them... She was very upset about that. In the morn...

What great messy fun! Dougal and Amy enjoyed sliding down the slippery slide in cardboard boxes! They pretended they were driving racing cars! Once inside, the children enjoyed easel painting. They were given red, yellow and blue paint and encouraged to mix paints together if they wanted other colours!