Saturday Lunch.

Today, I had my Grandad & Gran come for a BBQ lunch. My cousin Annie came too - without her Mummy & Daddy!! They were having some time to themselves today so Gran & Grandad looked after her for the day.

Giving my cousin a hug.

The slide.

On rainy days like today, I can have my own little playground in my home! I just play on my slide all day and I don't have to share it with anyone else!!

Celebrating the Year of the Rat!!

Tonight we had dinner at Tai Pan Restaurant in Doncaster to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Seeing as I am the only child around at the moment I get all the money from my family!!
I liked the pictures on the red packets. My Mummy & Daddy will put all the money I received tonight into my bank account.
Thank you to ; Por Por, Goong Goong, Aunty Christine, Ah Yee, Yee Jong, Kau Foo , Kau Moe & of course Mummy & Daddy for my New Year money!!
Gong Xi Fatt Chai.

We had an 8 course meal that included soup, jellyfish (I quite fancied it) & lobster, just to name a few!!

Snazzy boy!!

Artist in the making...

I am always very curious of my Daddy's studio. If by chance, the door is left open I make a quick dash in there, just so I can explore all of Daddy's stuff!! I am not allowed in there without my Mummy or Daddy as they say there is lots of things that I can't touch.
My Daddy spends a few hours in his studio every day painting and making art. He tells me he has lots of work to do as he will be having an exhibition of all his paintings soon.
My Daddy saw I was very interested in the paintings so he gave me a canvas, a paintbrush and some paint from his pellet, and let me have a go at painting!! As you can see I have been watching my Daddy very closely and I know that you need to dip your paintbrush into the medium and paints!! I am slowly adding to my painting, building up some layers. It has taken me 2 sessions of painting to get it at this stage! Daddy says I should do some painting one day and then let it dry and come back on another day and paint some more when it has dried.

This is my work in progress!...

Hokkien Noodles!

Mummy made Hokkien Noodles for dinner and I finished every bit of it!!...
Yummy!!

Chasing the Ducks.

Happy Birthday Uncle Andy!!

On Sunday we celebrated my Uncle Andy's birthday. We had afternoon tea at my cousin Annie's place. My Aunty Amanda makes really nice plum cake and chocolate muffins! She made special chocolate cake for Uncle Andy too and that was delicious too!

Annie & I had a good old time playing together - I really liked all her wooden toys and this hammer & ball toy.


Annie & I were so fascinated with Uncle Andy's wind-up toy.

My Cousin Annie's Pa made this gate for her - to keep her out of the kitchen.

Let me in!! My Cousin Annie & our Nanna

The Peck family minus my Daddy, he was taking the photo!
Annie & I.

My lambie.

I like to snuggle up to my Lambie when I go to bed. If was a gift from the staff at the Collingwood Children's Farm. One of the ladies hand knitted it. I love to suck on it's tail!! - Mummy has to keep washing it as it gets stinky!!

Cheeky smiles!

I love my soft toys! This one is a Mummy hedgehog, it has a baby hedgehog (but its not in this photo).

I like to lounge around on my couch!

At Mother's Group.

Wow! Look at how big we all are now!! I haven't seen everyone for a very long time!
In the beginning when we all arrived we were all clinging to our Mummies, but we soon warmed up and were off making a mess of the place!
Catherine & Me. Catherine is very fluent in Arabic!! - the funny thing is that her parents aren't Arabic!??

This is Will in the cart - he says 'Car' alot - everything is 'CAR'!! Will's Mummy is pregnant and Will will have a little brother or sister in May!!
And next to him is Noah - we haven't seen him since he moved with his Mummy & Daddy down to the coast. Noah & his mum came back for a visit - it was great to see them again. Noah is obesessed with The Wiggles! He found Jessica's Wiggles book and wanted to take it home with him - he got upset when his mum took it away from him!

This is Harper - he has lots of curly hair and he kept wanting to eat all the muffins Jess' mum made for us. He offered me some of his and when I took it from him, he cried.

This is Jess, she was nice enough to have us all over at her place for a play. She is going to be a big sister soon, her Mummy is having another baby too!! WOW!!

Harper & Will again.

Noah.

This is Zach - he's the eldest of us all!! So we look up to him!!

Me & Noah, eating kiddy muffins that Jess' mum Kim made us - we each had at least 3 each, they were so yummy!! We made a huge mess on the floor too! Sorry Kim!

Jess & her mum Kim.

The fridge water dispenser!

Whenever I go to my Por Por & Goong Goong's place, I ask them to help me press the water dispenser on their fridge! I use a little cup to drink from too! How fascinating - my fridge at home doesn't do this!!...

In the park.

I like to water our Lime tree.

Playing in my Room.

Bad influence!

Mummy, Daddy & I take regular walks to Blockbuster video to hire DVDs - we practically live there!!
On this particular day, we took a long walk around the walking tracks after stopping by at the video store and guess who's car we spotted on the side of the road!!?? My Uncle Jon & Aunty Bek's car!! They park their car next to the Eltham train station every weekday as they both catch the train into the city to get to work. So what did my parents do? Well, as you can see from the evidence above, they decided to 'decorate' their car with 'junk' and big flowers they found by the side of the road! Aren't they naughty!!
Mummy told me that she used to 'decorate' Daddy's red panel van with flowers when they were dating. Mummy would drive by Daddy's car while he was at work and put flowers on his windscreen!!

The Eltham Jazz Festival.

Today I went with Mummy & Daddy to the Eltham Jazz Festival. Because we live so close to the Eltham town centre, we walked there.
We watched a youth jazz band play - they had 2 drummers!!

...I had a balloon, but it flew away :(

I like to wear my Mummy's headband!!

A Breakdancer!? or just being hyperactive before bedtime!?...

...Crazy boy!!...

Vroom Vroom...

For my Great Aunty Rosemary.

Thank you for the CDs you sent me for Christmas. As you requested a video of me listening to them!

Zoe.

To my friend baby Zoe,
We will forever miss you. We will always remember your cute little smiles & the fun times at Mother's Group.
oxoxox

A Poem by my Great Grandad.

At my Great Grandad's birthday party, he recited 2 poems; a shakespearian poem & one he wrote himself. This is what he recited to his guests at his party:

I feel I’m rather in a jam `cause unaccustomed as I am

I’ve got to say a word or two – or three or four or even more-

So –

Six of Shakespeare’s ages I’ve known in full measure,

Lots of pain and lots of pleasure.

The infant, the schoolboy, the lover, the sailor, the justice;

And here I am this afternoon,

Your lean and slippered pantaloon.

I creak, I squeak, my knees are weak,

I snuffle and sneeze and blow my nose.

I can no longer touch my toes,

I’ve a touch of gout I could do without;

But on these things I do not dwell

`Cause otherwise I’m very well.

In Seventy-three I first came to Oz

And liked it very much because

It seemed to me as very much so

Like the England I knew long ago.

Since then, whenever I’ve crossed the foam,

It’s just been coming from home to home;

And now once more I’m seeing the joys

Of little girls and little boys.

Which leaves one more thing just to say:

Thankyou all for honouring me today.

Written by Robert Alfred Johnson, recited on the occasion of his 90^th. birthday, 12^th. January, 2008.

My Great Grandad turns 90!!

Today we celebrated my Great Grandad's 90th birthday at Warren Glen Cafe in Warrandyte.
He had some photos of him when he was a baby and he even had a photo of his grandparents on display too, so I got to see my Great, great, great Grandparents, WOW!!
My Great Grandad had his medals from WWII on display too; he had 5 medals.
Happy Birthday Great Grandad!!

My Kau Moe blowing bubbles while I tried to catch them, but they kept popping everytime I touched them.

Playing in the Thomas the Tank Engine train with Kau Fu

My wonderful holiday at Mallacoota.

Last Saturday morning, after my breakfast we began our journey to Mallacoota. Mummy & Daddy packed all our bags and the boat and made sure I had plenty of toys and books to occupy me in the car. Mallacoota is on the east coast of Victoria just before you reach the boarder of NSW. My mummy has been to Mallacoota twice; once when she was a little girl and the second time with Daddy, just after they got married. They said I would enjoy it very much.
I was very good in the car. I had my morning nap and my afternoon nap in the car and we stopped a couple of times to change my nappy and to have lunch. We stopped at Lakes Entrance for lunch and I had a little run around on the grass. I even got to watch my favourite program in the car!! I watched Hi-5 on my Daddy's laptop!! And before I knew it we arrived at Mallacoota - about 8 hours later!! Mummy & Daddy were very impressed on how patient I was in the car... I think it was becuase my Mummy was so organised with all my favourite toys and things I like to play with that made my journey a happy one!!
We stayed in a very nice apartment called Lakeside at Mallacoota. I had my own bedroom and lots of room to play - inside and outside.
My Kau Foo and Kau Moe were travelling back down the coast from Batemans Bay and they stopped in Mallacoota and stayed for a night with us. They went out fishing with Daddy in the evening.




Roaming the grounds outside the holiday house.


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Daddy went fishing LOTS!! and he caught LOTS of fish!! He would sneak out at 4 o'clock in the morning and take the boat out into the estuaries and he would come back just in time for breakfast with BIG fish!! Daddy caught mainly Bream and Flathead. He did catch a Stingray, baby Snapper - which he had to throw back into the sea as they were too small and some Taylor.
This one is a flathead!!

The top two are Bream...

...and another Flathead.


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We went to the front beach for a little play. It was a bit windy that day, we didn't stay long.

Daddy in the background pumping the sand for Bass Yabbies - live bait for catching fish!!

Me, digging for gold!!??



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My first visit to Betka family beach. My mummy came here to play when she was little too, she said that she remembered seeing lots of little fish swimming in water.
Someone dug a hole in the sand and I loved playing in it!!
A true beach bum!

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My Por Por & Goong Goong spent a couple of nights with us .Daddy took all of us out on the boat for a scenic tour around Mallacoota's inlets. We saw lots of other people out on their boats fishing.I liked to watch Daddy drive the boat as it makes a great noise and makes the water go all white and frothy!! I nearly fell asleep on the boat as I found it strangely calming!?

Helping my Goong Goong cook one of the fish he caught whilst out on the boat with my Daddy one afternoon.

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My second visit to Betka beach.
Daddy, Mummy & I swam through the channel that led out to the surf beach. It had a very gentle current we could float along with. The tide was out so it was very shallow, I could even touch the ground in some spots. Lots of kids were on there boogieboards or dingys and floated down the channel - I liked to watch them. Daddy said he should have brought his surfboard (which he left back at the holiday house) so I could have a ride like the other kids, oh well, there is always next time!!

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At last I got to play in my pool!! Mummy & Daddy set it up just outside the holiday house.

In Daddy's bucket.

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Eating watermelon .


Daddy helping me pack my bags to go home.

Outside the apartment we stayed at. All packed and ready for the journey home.


One the way home we stopped in Bairnsdale and we had McDonald's - my first time ever!! I didn't like the food much, I just played with it and kept putting it back in the box it came in!! I preferred to eat the lunch Mummy packed me instead. Mummy says that I should take the food back and tell them it was rubbish!!

Mummy, Daddy & I thoroughly enjoyed our holiday, we could have stayed for another week!! Mallacoota was definately a fun place to go. I am definately returning to Mallacoota again!! There is a Secret beach that I would like to check out next time - apparently it has a cave!!...