January....in pictures!

Wow, we have been so busy!!! Mummy says she feels like it should be the month of April already considering how busy we have been. January just flew by!!! Here are some of my favourite pictures. Luc and I had so much fun playing with Tyler, Jaydan and Keira when they stayed with us. We went to the beach a lot, swam in the next door neighbours pool, went to the underwater aquarium, went to a play in Kings Park and we did lots of other fun things as well. Mostly I just loved always having them around and I am missing them a lot now they are back in Sydney.



All of us at the beach

Giggling our heads off on the trampoline

Letting Keira try on my rollerskates

Ty, Jayd and Me

All of us having dinner...(look at Luc, thinks he is such a big boy!!!)

So the day after they left to go home, Mummy, Luc and I went to Rottnest with Nanny, Grandpa, Aunty Em, Uncle Carl, Jack and Sari. We went 2 days earlier than Daddy as he had to work. Rottnest as always was so much fun. I just love to look for quokkas and swim and ride my bike everywhere. I got a little daring and tried to ride my bike without training wheels, but soon put them back on as I am really not ready yet to be that much of a big girl.

Me feeding the quokka pine needles

Number 240 Thompson Bay, our place Brown eyed sandy beach boy! I love giving Sari cuddles! Me on my bike, my baby in the back!

Aunty Em and Daddy taking us to the beach. (Mummy taking the photo!). Look how much stuff we needed to take for all of us kids!!!!

Mummy with her hands full...(again) Probably just saved Luc from climbing up rocks or something!!!!!

Grandpa and Luc walking opposite our cottage and overlooking Thompson Bay.

Belive it or not, I have only brought you up to date to the middle of January!!!!!! I know I know...all that fun!!! We came back from Rottnest on the 15th and only for 1 day as we then drove 5 hours south to Albany for our good friends Nigel and Michelle's wedding.....hmmm, have I mentioned I was a flower girl!!!! I'll be back soon to tell you all about Albany and the wedding.

Love Sophie

xx

Mmmm, have I mentioned how much I LOVE yoghurt

Christmas....how it came and went so fast!

(above)Christmas morning..........

Luc getting the hang of the Christmas stocking....surprises inside...






Cousins:- Sari, Jack, me, Cisco and Luc



I had the best Christmas. It was so much fun. Santa bought me a scooter AND a camera (kids camera), it takes real photos and everything and then you can put them on the computer...so watch out, soon you will be getting shown lots of the photos I take. I love my scooter as well. I was so pleased as I really, really wanted the scooter. Luc got a toy aeroplane and a few other toys. It was a very very hot day and we even had to eat our lunch at Nanny and Grandpa's inside the house. Not that I ate any lunch, I filled up on too much chocolate before we had lunch.....but you know what, when it is Christmas day, it doesn't matter if you eat too much chocolate!!!! After lunch we came home and Daddy had to drive to the airport to pick up our friends, "The Danes Family". They were coming to stay for 2 weeks. We spent the afternoon after they arrived swimming in the next door neighbours pool...(the neighbours went away for 6 weeks and kindly let us use their pool whenever we want!)


After dinner we played on the lawn and ate ice cream cones.....the best day ever. Poor Sasha didn't get a cone but she hung around anyway....(I think she knew Luc was sure to drop his!!!!)

The Danes kids.....Jaydan, Keira and Tyler

Backtracking......

A photo of Nanny, Grandpa, Aunty Emily, Aunty Jane and Mummy on Grandpas' 70th birthday....(because after all as I am constantly being reminded....'it's not always about ME and Luc!!!!"...this website that is, ha ha)

So I am little late in keeping you informed on what is happening around here. Let's just say I have been a very busy 5 year old. Christmas was the "best day of my whole life"!!! I LOVED it. I was so excited to see on Xmas morning that Santa had left some presents under our tree. I will come back later to tell you all about it....but first going back a bit to Christmas Eve when it was Grandpa's 70th birthday....that seems like a big number...WOW. We all went to Nanny and Grandpa's house and had a party. I am the oldest of 5 grandchildren, (Justin my cousin in Canada is 1 year older than me though) but here I am always very busy making sure they are all OK. I help with the babies Cisco and Sari and then I play with Jack and Luc of course just follows me everywhere because he thinks he is big like me and Jack.

The First Noel........not bad for 70 don't you think!!!

Yay. birthday cake...my favourite.......

OK, enough of everyone else, now back to being all about me!!!!!!

Cleaning cupboards!!

I am such a good help to mum. I helped her clean out the cupboards so that we could get new ones. Mummy let me do the 'plastic' cupboard and I cleared it out in 5 seconds flat!! It was so much fun. I played for ages in this cupboard it was almost as much fun as pulling all the Xmas decorations off the tree before dragging the whole treedown.................

Christmas Concerts AND Kindergarten days are over!!!!

Well, my kindy days are behind me as I had my last day today. I was a little bit sad because I will miss my teachers so much, especially Mrs Huggins, my main teacher. I won't even see her next year as she is teaching at another school but lucky for me she is going to my friend Ella's school so I will still hear about her from Ella!!! Yippee. Today we put on a little concert for the parents and grandparents. It was all 'top secret', we weren't allowed to tell our Mummies and Daddies what is was about. Last week I little bit slip though.......I told Mummy we were doing a 'Nativity play' and that I was the CHEF!!!!! Mummy seemed surprised by this because she did nativity plays when she was a little girl at school and she said there was definately no chef in the play!!!!!! I assured her, Yes, I am definately the chef!!! Mummy thought maybe it was a VERY modern nativity play and that maybe the Virgin Mary and Joseph 'travelled' with a chef!!!! Yes, by donkey as well!! OR maybe when they knocked on the door of the overcrowded Inns to find a place for Mary to give birth, just maybe, a chef answered the door!!!!! I could tell Mummy was very curious but I couldn't tell her anymore as it was all supposed to be a big secret. Anyway, when I was going to bed that night I remembered that I am actually not the Chef after all, I am actually the CHEFERD!!!!! Then Mummy, (being as clever as she is!!!) realised I was actually meaning to say a SHEPHERD!!!! Sometimes that happens to me, I mix my words all up, must be a 5 year old thing I'd say!
So in the photo above, (click on photos to make them bigger) towards the back, there I am being a shepherd, I have a white robe, hat and red over my shoulders. If you look very carefully you can see Luc in the doorway watching me. Mummy had to leave the room because Luc was being 'difficult' and he kept wanting to come to me, afterwards (picture below) you can see that he is sitting next to me, just trying to be a big kindy kid like me!!!!!!
After the concert Santa came to visit us and he brought a present for us all. I got a book about elephants.

Here I am with Mrs Huggins, she is the best teacher and I will miss her SO much. She wrote nice things about me in my 'portfolio' and she said I am ready for big Pre Primary school every day next year. Yes, next year I will go to school EVERY DAY!!

Last Friday night, the whole school put on a concert and our kindy class also had a special act. We sang a song about Jesus being born and we did some dancing as well. See is you can see me in the photos, (kind of like playing'where's sophie!)I have piggy tails and I am wearing all white and red tights. All the mums and dads came to watch. Mummy said it was hard trying to comtrol Luc. Now that he is walking he is constantly moving and he doesn't like to sit still even for a minute. He was very funny, he kept crawling to the front near the stage and standing up and clapping and doing all the actions the kids on stage were doing........sorry, no photo of this because Mummy was VERY busy trying to stop him from 'stealing' the show, and Daddy was busy filming so that we can send it to "Australias Funniest Home Videos" show to make money...(well, that is what he said!) Looks like he is going to be a real performer.

Here is a picture of Luc trying to escape from Mummy and Daddy again.....

SO now I am on school holidays until February 4 2008!!! That is a long long time away. Woo hoo, can't wait till Christmas now and see what Santa will bring me.

Lots of love
Sophie
xxx

Email boy

I had to call Mummy to my room this morning......."Quick Mummy, come quick, Luc is sitting at my 'princess dressing table' using my 'Dora computer' AND he thinks he knows how to check EMAILS!!!! He even thinks he can type. "
I said, "Mum, when is someone going to tell Luc he is JUST a toddler and not 5 like me and also Mummy, I think Luc thinks Dora is his girlfriend because she talks to him when he types!!!!!!