Reece's Xmas Play

Reece's Xmas play at school took place on the last day of school. The two pre-primary classes got together and put the play on for the whole school. Reece was Joseph and we did not even know that he was Joseph until about 3 days before the play when one of the parents told us. Most of the kids did all of the talking and the a couple of the kids acted out everything. It was very cute as they had modernised the play, so we had quite a few giggles. In fact I was recording the play on video and when we played it back you can hear me have a giggle in the background.

We were then given the opportunity to spend the morning with them have some tea and cake and then it was back to work. (very sad I know!)

In the last term the kids are all taken to the local swimming pool and given swimming lessons. There is a government program here that teaches the children to swim and then they are graded at the end of the period. There are also programs at all of the local swimming pools and beaches to continue with the program and it is really cheap. It is quite a big thing in Australia that kids know how to swim, so beneficial to all.

Reece ended off school one week before Xmas and they will only be going back on 1st Feb........ not sure how we are going to keep him busy but I am sure we will cope.

Bye

N

Bryce's Xmas Songs

Bryce has his Xmas concert at school and when we got there all the kids were all lined up and ready to sing some Xmas songs. From the pics below you can see that he looks like the sweetest little boy ever but boy oh boy he is a monster at home. He is at the stage that he has to dress himself and normally he is very well co-ordinated with his colours but this day I do not know what happened. He was also wearing a Ben10 shirt which my mom and dad had bought for him from the UK. It was long sleeves and over 32 degrees outside but he did not care as he was going to wear his Ben10 t-shirt come hell or high water.

Now one of the songs that they sung for us is used in a tv commercial for the lottery and goes "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket and save it for a rainy day........" this is the chorus and I cannot remember the rest of the song but Bryce had shorts on with a velcro pocket so he was litterally trying to put his star that he caught into his pocket and spent the next couple of minutes trying to get his pocket open only for the chorus to start again and he would then start opening his pocket again, so therefore throughout the song he was making such a noise trying to get his pocket open. I was giggling so much by the end of the song it was just too cute to see what was going through his mind.

He had great fun though and loved the fact that we were there so that he could show us his school and all his art work, we then stayed for some snacks with the kids and then had a relaxing afternoon at home.

Cheers

N

Perth city

During mom and dad's stay there was only one lucky day when both Reece & Bryce were at school for the day so that left the day open for my Heath, mom & dad to get into Perth city to explore. They took a bus to the train station and then the train into the city. They all wondered around the city and then I met them for such lunch before they took the train back home.

I have been in Perth for 1 year now and I still have not posted any pictures of Perth city so I thought this would be a good opportunity. Thanks to my mom and dad who took some of the pictures. The first picture is the office block that I work in called Central Park and it is the tallest building in Perth currently.

How time flys ONE YEAR ALREADY!

Cheers

Nicky

Hillary's with Mom & Dad

My mom and Dad arrived from the UK on the 3rd December and I was flying back from Singapore that night and only arrived at 2:30am on the 4th December. So I did not have the privilege of fetching them from the airport, but I did have the privilege of waking them up at 2:30am in the morning as Heath had left the wrong key under the front door mat for me so I had to bang on the door for someone to open it up and that happened to be my mom as their room was closest to the front door..... sorry mom :)

The first couple of days they visited the local areas around us and then on the first weekend we took them to Hillary's Harbour. It is about 20km north of Perth. The Perth aquarium is also in the same area. We always visit one particular restaurant there as they have really great steaks and guess what it is run by a South African guy.

After lunch we walked around the harbour area and did a little shopping before taking a slow drive home along the coast.

I need to catch up on my blogging so I am just going to post some short one of what we have been up to lately as I have been asked by many of you "What has happened to the blog?" Missing everyone terribly.

Cheers

Nicky