Sydney holiday part 2

Here we have Emma on her first plane flight! We have a little bit to learn about sleeping arrangements for Emma Grace before our holiday to SA in December...sigh

Bronwyn, Alex, Alannah, me, Emma all waiting for the train to the city.


Emma, Alannah and Alex after our big day at Taronga zoo, it was so much fun to have these two older girls with us to enjoy the animals!

Annabelle entertaining Emma - she was not short of attention it was lovely!

Playing with Annabelle and Alannah

(who has chocolate on her face, gotta love 3 year olds!!)

Sydney holiday part 1

We were so privileged to have a little holiday recently to Sydney. We stayed with my roommate from college, Bronwyn and her family. With their four children Emma was thoroughly entertained at every point - it was great!!

and here we are.... Sydney Harbour Bridge!

A lesser known view of the city as we left on the ferry towards manly

Ta-da! I must pause here to say a massive THANK YOU to Bronnie for babysitting Emma while we saw The Mikado here, it was brilliant fun!

a view from the ferry - the architecture of this place really is amazing

The bridge and the opera house

Emma's first time at the beach!!

I'm sure she's thinking "what's the fuss about?" we expected some reaction from her feet touching the sand but got nothing!

Taronga Zoo! the seal show - she's waving at us

the shows they do are so fun, he said that we must be careful around our marine life or they'll die and then she flopped onto her back, so cute.
An excellent jump I must say!

Gorillas!!! the babies were so cute, it was a good time of year to go as there were lots of new born animals around

Kong...thought he was so special he just sat with his back to everyone!

The Wetherston's at the zoo :D

This is an amazing view for a zoo hey?

This girl is a wedge-tailed eagle, they're massive!

I'm sure the keeper wouldn't like her photo, but this gives a little perspective of the size of these amazing birds! Their wing size gets up to 2.3 metres!

my favourite pic of the day - the baby gorillas were really very cute!

7 Months

Emma is 7 months old and we cannot believe how fast our year is going by!

She's already helping mummy with the laundry

It's actually been heating up here quite significantly. Sunday afternoon we spent time at mum and dads and we figured we'd try to help Emma cool off by sucking on ice :)


mmm yum

"hey, I can do this myself!" but then her fingers got too cold so she dropped it and let Lyle hold it for her again!

I was amazed that when we put these on her she didn't even touch them, what an awesome baby!

'Head shots' needed in a models world right?

Singing

Drop the jaw to hit the high note

Sad

Happy

(I kid you not, this photo was taken moments after the previous one...

models are so moody!)

Happy Father's Day!

In Australia Father's Day is the first Sunday in September. It's kind of nice in that it gives us a break between mother's and father's day. Emma bought Lyle a Springbok supporter jersey! woo hoo. He was pretty happy about that. We also had my parents, grandma and brother's family over for a BBQ. My nephew Finn is getting so big and is so cute, so I can't resist posting photos to brag about him!

The three dad's of the day!

Mum with (my fat) Emma Grace


Finn having a big tickle from dad!

Finn also helped uncle Lyle do some gardening

And of course, as every 2 year old must do - learn to show off his muscles!!

(see? told you he was cute!!!!)

Happy Birthday Finn!

Our nephew Finn turned 2 on Sunday. Saturday afternoon we went to his birthday party. My sis-in-law made a fantastic cake and we had a really lovely afternoon at their house :)

eating the coloured popcorn

think I'll have some more, thanks!
Finn is so sweet, he just sat down of his
own accord to have a chat to Emma :)

A sweet kiss for cousin Emma

(actually this is a bit of a favourite pasttime for him, we'll see how

it goes when his baby brother or sister arrives in September!)

Emma's first time sitting on grass

My favourite photo of the day

"Eeeee, I'm wearing daddy's hat!!!"

Cute outfits

We have received so many gorgeous outfits for Emma from so many people it's really a huge blessing. I think I've bought her maybe three things since she was born!
This one from great uncle Les and great aunty Marlene - Thank you!

Little fingers and little nails

So babies have really, really, really, reeeeally small hands...and hence, small fingernails. I've sat with Emma in the past, nail scissors in hand and ready to cut, but could never gain the courage to do so, so I'd resort to biting (I know it's terrible!) or just tearing - sounds painful, but they're so soft it doesn't phase her. The other day I finally got the courage to cut, it was easier than I thought due to the fact that we're getting scratches on our faces from Emma!

I figured that being outside would be a good distraction for her

Emma learning the "all done" sign

Happy that the ordeal is over with no fuss!
(except for the camera...and loads of attention from mum and dad)