Big School

Well, it is finally here. Matthew's first day of school. There were no tears or blubbering. (My eyes did well up but the whole you cant cry in front of the child kicked in!) He was terribly excited. When we arrived at school one of his best mates Dylan was arriving as well. And they are in the same class so he was thrilled. He walked into the class room as if he owned it. As cool as you please he said to the only adult in the room "Hello Mrs Nelson!" (I explained to her that we had been talking about her all weekend so he felt like he knew her! There was only one moment of terror in his eyes and it was after Nathan and I had both kissed him goodbye and Daddy said "What are you going to do now?" I think that was the first moment he thought "Oh shit, I don't know!" So we pointed him in the direction of Dylan and the train track and off he went. Not even a backwards glance! So to my baby boy I hope you are having a great day and opening your mind to all the exciting things that big school delivers!

Super student!

Barkley wondering what the heck is going on?

Dylan and Matthew at Big School

How proud is Daddy

Mummy not wanting to let go!

Cleon and Michelle had to get a photo with the big school boy too.

More....

Working on the naughty or nice list!
Watching Grumpy do his V8 hot laps at Willowbank.

The boys with race driver grumpy

There he goes!

He had a ball!

Australia Zoo at 9.15 and around 30 degrees. We were ready to go home already!

The boys and an alligator

Sitting on a tortoise. It wasn't real!

Ryan feeding an elephant

The croc show

Us with the mascot. At around 43 degree he would have been melting. I know I was!

A Balinese statue thingy

My friend Nicole's 3 boys and mine. 6 under 6!

Ryan and my godson Lachlan. There is 20 days between them

The little bugger got me with the hose!

Armed and dangerous!

Poppy armed and dangerous! Check out his evil glare!

Stopping for a refill

Ryan squirting himself in the eye as only he could!

The boys in the pj's Cleon and Michelle brought them back from Kuala Lumpur

Poppy's baby seal is ready for swimming lessons

Matthew and his puppy and little guy (the Beijing Olympic mascots), Ryan and his puppy and tiger and little guy and Benny and his little guy and wait a minute there is a teddy in there that looks awfully like.....Poppy!

Nana and Poppy favourite part of their visits. They LOVE bring awake at 6am. Although Poppy finds it about hard to read the words in the books that early. He isn't sure why. Maybe try opening your eyes Poppy!

Random recent pictures

Pillow case races up the hallway. Apparently these are the activities you resort to one week before school goes back!
Matthew trying hard because he has to be the winner

Benny flashing his headlights at Questacon's mini Q

Waterplay at questacon

Ryan completely bewildered because his clowns head is on back to front and he cant figure out what is wrong!

Can you make out three boys dancing?

The excavator at Great Uncle Ross's Farm

Drivers seat of the dump truck at Great Uncle Ross's farm

The quad bike..... Uncle Ross's farm is a Rickard boys paradise!

The boat

Ryan on the quad

The trip home from QLD. So tired Matthew fell asleep still colouring in!

My gosh they are gorgeous when they are asleep!

Ryan refuses to go to sleep!

Ryan wearing the elf hat and ears (that were just made fro him to wear!) and the kilt towel Kata brought him back from Scotland

Matthew as Rudolf

Matching kilts from Scotland!

How cute is this kid?

Snow dancing

The children stayed inside this morning while I put the clothes on the line as it was too damned hot. Anyway half way through Benny comes running out yelling "We're having a dance party!" This entails them turning on our clock radio and jumping on my bed. Not my favourite activity for them but I thought it was keeping them out of trouble until I had finished. 10 minutes later Benny comes running out saying "We're having a snow party!" Well that rang alarm bells in my head! This is what a snow party looks like!

(its all of the toilet paper we had in the house)

I guess its better than a foam party!

Playschool

I caught up with Ryan's playschool teacher from last year today and her christmas gift last year was a cd of the years photos. They are gorgeous! And what a lovely gift! Here are the best of them. Upside down
Building in the sandpit

This is Ryan and his bestest friend in the whole wide world Ben. Unfortunately Ben wont be going to pre school with Ryan but we will still see him!

This is pure Ryan!

The highlight of Ryan life so far was milking this "cow"! He talks about it often and he was absolutely amazed by it! So was I and Julie's ingenuity in building a cow out of a climbing frame, glove and cardboard!