Easter Hat Parade!!!

Well, if we had stopped at two children, we would have been on our last Easter Hat Parade LAST year, but we have our gorgeous Annie-Rose, so we have two more years to go of this marvellous and strange tradition! Here is Annie-Rose in Grade One doing her Easter Hat Parade walk and concert. It is hard to clap and film at the same time, hence the wobbly camera! :-)

Family Symposium on Cockatoos at Oakman Park

There is lots of amazing wildlife near Toowong Creek and in Oakman Park. They have some clever ecology type people working on the plantations in the creek bed, and the animals are responding well to these efforts. Here are a bunch of cockatoos and Oliver initiating a discussion about which are girls and which are boys, although I think Ben really had the edge in biological knowledge with his suggestions about pink bows ;-)

Muddy Puddles!

Here are all three children indulging in some serious mud puddling! This is in the local park after all the big rains we have been having.

Charlotte and Annie in Double-Act

Charlotte is learning some guitar courtesy of her Grandad Carroll, who has played for years and years and years :-) He is teaching her lots of songs, including this one. She sings nicely too!

Young Talent Time!

This is Oliver and Annie-Rose doing their best singing :-)! Fame and fortune are inevitable!

Dad Duty :-)

The kids thought it would be a brilliant idea to go to Perrin Park in the middle of the day in around 33 degree heat. They also thought it would be good to make Ben play tag with them and push them on the bike-track. Lucky he is a good dad and obliged them ;-) He has soooo much good karma in the bank, this man :-)

How to Live :-)

This is a snapshot of life on our deck! Charlotte is sitting at the table and I am in the hammock enjoying the peace and the view around me. Queenslanders are the best houses :-)