Lots to catch up on!! First Dancing...

Here she is at the end of a very long week of practice and concerts although she thinks it is all worth it when you get to bring home the BLING.

This segment is called Ice Palace. The performers were doing classical ballet. Octavia is in this photo somewhere!

Octavia ready for Ice Palace.

All ready to be a Show Pony in The Circus (tap dancing).

Octavia The Buzzy Bee in Bottom of the Garden (jazz ballet).

Octavia's School for 2009

Octavia is very excited about starting School in 2009. Recentley we had her school interview with the Principal and she also met the Kindergarten teacher. We have received a letter and she has been accepted into the Central Wagga Wagga Catholic School called St Josephs Primary School. Sadly in the early hours of the morning of Australia Day 2008 the school was the target of a arsen attack by a few teenage boys. The school has not been used all year as the site had to be assessed, insurance claims etc. It has now been decided and work started to rebuild on the same site. The school should be finished in about twelve months. Here are a few pictures of the devastation.

The picture below is the house across the road from the burnt out school ,this is currently the school office and the gate to the right leads to the temperary class rooms. The school has done a great job this year with the facilities available. I imagine they are all eager for the school to be rebuilt.


This will be the gate Octavia goes in, her class room is the first one on the left. "She is sooooo excited - she has orientation this Thursady"

Oh Yes we have a Wabbit!!!!

I need to apologise that I have not done a post for ages. "SORRY" Life has been busy and I have been a bit lazy. Well as you can see we have a lovely black loop eared Wabbit called Lucy. Piper just wore us down and we caved. Haha . The girls just love her and she is growing huge as the days go by. They love to feed her beans every day.

Lucy has huge feet "everyone tells us it means that she will be a big rabbit" She will probably be bigger than our dog Millie. Haha


Piper having her first supervised cuddle!!! This is after she crawled into the box of 7 baby rabbits at the Sunday markets when we said she could have one!!!

Poppy Dave arrived from Tasmania for a visit and first job he got was to go buy the girls a rabbit hutch "THANKS POPPY DAVE AND JOYCEY" and then help Justin put it together.



Lucy's new home, all settled in.......

Hair do's, baking, playing and Piper wants a Wrabbit!!!!

Octavia likes her hair curley so we used the Avon twist rollers. It did turn out lovely although I forgot to take a photo that day. Maybe because she was awake at 6am taking them out showing me her hair..Agrrr! That night she also did some baking with Justin a lovely love heart chocolate cake. Mmmm!

Both the girls had haircuts this week. Here is Piper co-operating (it did help the hairdresser gave her a bag of lollies - smart hairdresser)

We have new play equipment at the park in our street, so here they are giving it the once over.

Now, this is all Piper talks about. Her cousin Jake has a rabbit "Fluffy". She loves it and cries when she leaves their house saying "Wrabbit". She has now taken to walking around our house crying saying "Wrabbit". Daddy has nearly..... given in. I bet by next blog we have a WRABBIT!!!!

Daddy's B'day & Father's Day.....

On the 6th of September Justin celebrated his 37th Birthday!

Piper loved the balloons that Octavia blew up for Daddy!!!

The following day was Father's Day and we had a picnic at the park. This is Octavia, Jake (my brother's son) and Piper.

Justin was trying to do some gardening with his helpers!!!!

What are they up to? I don't know!!!

Very Spoilt & some gardening....

We finally found some "In the Night Garden " toys today and Piper scored well with a Upsy Daisy Dolly and a Igglepiggle Doll. She just loves them and calls Daisy "Daisy Do". Both the dolls sing and make noises when you squeeze their belly. Here she is ready for bed and she is showing me her nose. I hope Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy don't keep her up all night.

We planned to do some small gardening jobs today, Octavia was keen to help Justin plant some panzies in some pots out the front and also some strawberry plants in the strawberry pot.

Piper wasn't that interested in the gardening she was just happy do some drawing on the easel.

Toooo... Cute!

Piper now poses for the camera, I took these photo's yesterday and had to share them with you! Because we just think she is gorgeous.....

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We are very lucky as Great Uncle Ric is a little handy with a camera so as we were staying at Ric and Pip's at Newcastle the girls went and hung out in the studio with Ric for a photo shot!

Newcastle

We went to Newcastle to visit Justin's family. His cousin Maree has a beautiful new baby boy Cruz. We went to his naming ceremony and hung out with Justin's Aunty Pip and Uncle Ric for a few days. Much fun was had! Octavia loved meeting her new second cousin Cruz.


Piper was more interested in Cruz's toys than him!


We visited Nobby's Beach and the kiddies just loved it. This was Piper's first time in the sand on a beach. Great Aunty Pip and Great Uncle Ric were in charge of the sand castle making. They came well prepared check out the size of the shovel.


Pipie with her Great Aunty Pip.


Great Uncle Ric(Lol) was clever at finding star fish on the rocks.

Disney on Ice and Chinese......

In the school holidays we spent a few days in Sydney catching up with some friends. On the last Friday of the holidays Cazie (Octavia's godmother) Octavia and I had tickets to Disney on Ice. We met up also with my friend Kylie and her daughter Paige. The girls Tav and Paige couldn't take their eyes of the performers it was great.


Cazie, Octavia and Paige.


After Disney we went to a Chinese resturant for dinner. Octavia wanted to use the chop sticks, so Cazie gave her a quick lesson.


Quick learner!! Had to be or be hungry!


Piper had fun eating her chicken and corn soup. Very grown up!!