Birthday Girl!!

Yesterday we celebrated Abby's 2nd Birthday. Her real Birthday is on the 19th but we wanted to have a party while Grandmas was here and we are also moving to a new house on the 19th. She was very cute and was very excited to have a party. She wanted to have a Dora party so I made a backpack cake and we played pin the horn on the flying unicorn Dora was riding. She loved all her gifts. She got some dress ups from Grams and she loves the Abby Caddabby costume she had it on all night and has been wearing it all day today. Shelley gave her a little Dora bag which she has been carrying around with her. She will tell us she is going shopping with her purse and pushing her new baby in the stroller. She is such a girl. I cant believe she is almost two she is such a fun cute little girl. She has also been using the potty for the past month and is doing great she still needs a diaper at night to sleep in but during the day she is doing great. She is learning so much and talking better each day. She likes to tease and be silly. She is such a fun little girl and I'm so grateful she is part of our family. Baby birthday little Abby Do.

Gymnastics & Caroling

Brady had a gymnastics display night this week and also a caroling night at his school. Tuesday was the display night his gymnastics group did a dance number to surfing USA and then did a bunch of different rotations on the equipment to show what they have been working on. Brady did a great job with a big smile on his face. He thought it was great that he got a metal at the end. Thursdays was his school caroling night. The Preps sang three songs, Santa Clause is Coming To Town, Rodolph The Red Nose Reindeer and Oh Christmas Tree in Japanese. They did a cute job. It has been a busy fun week.

Brady on the bars

He does a great job on bars

Dancing to Surfing USA

At the caroling night.

Boating & Snorkeling

On the last day of our weekend adventures we went on a boat to swim with seals, snorkel with fish and hopefully swim with dolphins. We went to the Mornington Peninsula and took a boat out to were a group of male seals live on a man made structure in the middle of the water. The seals were cool, they would swim by you and do tricks and try to get you to copy them. Travis had two seals that he was swimming around with. After the swim with the seals we got back on the boat and went to a man made Marina were we snorkeled and saw some really cool fish. I really liked watching the jelly fish swim I thought they were neat. After the fish we got back on the boat in search of dolphins to swim with. We ended up seeing a group of about eight dolphins it was so amazing to see them swimming right by the boat. Travis and Brady got out to try and get the dolpins to swim with them but they didn't want to play they just wanted to stay by the boat and have us watch them. It was so much fun we all had a great time.

Brady and Travis looking at the fish

The pictures I got of the dolphins are pretty lame compared to the real thing. They were awesome it was mine and Brady's favorite part.

Blake and Abby really enjoyed the boat ride, Abby would have loved to swim with us.

These are some of the seals we swam with and man were they stinky

This is Travis swimming and playing around with a seal

Fishing

Travis took the boys fishing they both caught two fish. Travis found a place that had an indoor and outdoor pond. They started outside and Blake caught one then they headed to the indoor pond where they had more luck. The boys had a good time. Abby, Grandma, and I didn't love this activity to much but it was fun to see them get excited when they would catch a fish.

The Koala Park

We went to a very neat Koala park and saw tons of Koalas. There were a few baby Koalas which was neat to see. Koalas carry their babies in a pouch like kangaroos, they are also called Joey's like kangaroo babies. The babies we saw were to big to live in their moms pouch anymore so they were out on their own. The park was made to help save the Koalas and their homes. It was fun to be able to get up so close to these cute little animals.

Boogie Boarding

This weekend we headed to the beach so that Grandma could play in the ocean. We got each of the kids a boogie board and they did great. They had such a good time. Brady was the first one in the water as always, Abby loves the water too, Blake is a little scared of the water which is why he played with his board in the sand. I let Brady teach me how to ride the waves and then Blake decided he could do it to. We had a lot of fun it was the perfect day at the beach.

My little fish

Brady waiting for the perfect wave

Abby loved playing in the water, she liked jumping over waves with Grandma

What I big boy I was very proud of him for being so brave

What a Mess!!!

The other day I went upstairs to put some laundry away and when I came back down this is what I found. Abby decided it would be a great idea to paint the bathroom door and herself with Grandmas mascara. She thought she was pretty cute.

Skater Dude

Today after school we went to the skate park. I have wanted to take the boys for awhile but just haven't. It turned out that they loved it. They thought they were so cool. They both want skateboards for their birthdays now. It was fun to watch them get so excited. I don't think the big boys thought they were too cute when they kept getting in their way, hey you got to start somewhere.

Abby was busy calling her dad on her new Dora phone

I didn't get any pictures of Blake for some reason but he

was loving it just as much as Brady

The Park & Ice Cream

Today after Brady and Blake got home from school we decided to take advantage of a nice afternoon and go to the park. We had to take Grandma to our favorite park for a few games of hide and seek. After a fun time at the park we headed to cute little old fashion ice cream parlor. We had a fun time.

After a bit of negoiation we were able to get Abby to wear

her Dora hat instead of the undies