Easter

For the Easter weekend we went camping with the SA Moke Club. The Moke Owners Assoc of Vic also joined us. Here are some photos from that weekend. Brendon is flying paper aeroplanes in one of them. Terry from Victoria is being towed behind a moke on a go cart in another.

Brendon's new pjamas

Here are the latest pj's that I have made for Brendon. I am getting good value out of this pattern, as I think this is the third pair I have made.

Well, things have been quite busy lately. We had a visit from my brother, then shortly after that we had a visit from my Mum and Dad. In between I have been looking for work and investigating becoming a Tupperware Demonstrator. I will be joining up if anyone is interested in ordering or booking a party. Here are some recent photos. There is a lovely one of Brendon giving Granddad a kiss as well as sitting on Nanna's lap while listening to her tell him a story. The sewing machine birthday cake was for Mum's/Nanna's birthday which we celebrated while she was here.

Mummy, I've done a poo

Yay! I never thought I would be so happy as to hear those words. Check out my latest post about toilet training on paulinestips.blogspot.com. We have been putting Brendon in jocks and he is now noticing when he is wet or soiled, something he wasn't noticing with nappies on.
And for those that have asked for me to put my posts in a bigger font, I have checked it out and there doesn't seem to be an option on here to do it. Sorry. Maybe try going in to Properties from your Windows screen and adjusting the icon sizes which should also make the font bigger on your computer.

Holiday snaps and All British Day

With Mathew on annual leave we headed to Robe for four nights. We took our camper trailer and stayed at the Lakeside Caravan Park, which we have stayed at twice before. It is a great caravan park. The campers kitchen there is so well set up that we never even unpacked our kitchen in our camper trailer.
Here are some photos from the trip. Brendon enjoyed his Babycino at Mahalia Coffee in Robe and also playing on the train on display in the playground at Tailem Bend on the way home. There is also a photo taken of Brendon and Mathew at the lookout in Robe.
The photo of Brendon and Mathew in our Moke was taken at All British Day. We entered our Moke. We took the Moke and the Xtrail up to Uraidla and had a lovely breakfast with our friends and other Mokers at Rob and Dee's house. Then we swapped the child seat over to the Moke, so Mathew and Brendon drove the 500 metres to the entry of the oval for All British Day, and I hopped in the spare seat in Julie's moke, leaving our Xtrail at Rob and Dee's. Brendon had a great day. They had a petting zoo there and he loved feeding and patting the farm animals with his favourite being the sheep.

Pool party

Here are some photos of Mathew and Brendon at a pool party. It's funny, within a short time of being in the pool, we both noticed Brendon's confidence improved to the point where he was happy to swim by himself with the support of a pool noodle only. He does swimming lessons each week, but this made us realise that just playing in a pool like this would also be good for his confidence and swimming ability. So I think over the summer I will also take him for a swim in a pool other than just going to swimming lessons.

Our 7th wedding anniversary

It was our wedding anniversary on Sunday, so on Saturday night we caught the bus to Norwood and had gourmet pizza at Cafe Palazzo. It was really yummy and a nice night out, and I got to wear my green dress that I wore to Neil and Char's wedding again. Here is a photo of Mathew and Brendon in the bus on the way out to dinner.
On Sunday morning we went for a lovely bike ride along linear park into Adelaide, then up to North Adelaide. We stopped at the park just opposite the Women's and Children's hospital for morning tea, before heading back home again. I took some photos of Mathew and Brendon there, but didn't manage to get a photo of the three of us. On the way home, we were still a few kilometres away from home when the heavens opened and it bucketed down. Usually I don't enjoy being rained on while riding, but thoroughly enjoyed getting saturated this time. The fact that it wasn't cold may have had something to do with it. Even Brendon liked getting wet!
Brendon has been doing a lot of painting lately. We are getting quite a collection of his artwork!