All Grown Up

This evening Octavia had her midyear dance display. She has jazz, ballet and tap lessons once a week and tonight all the students performed in their classes to show the parents what they have been learning. These photos are not the best as they were moving and had to zoom in. Octavia is in the middle of each photo. She was very confident and I realised how grown up she is.

Silver Medal Time

A Very Special Dolly

Justin's Station Officer "Sally" (his boss) arrived at our house the other day with this very special dolly for Octavia's 5th Birthday. Sally had asked her Mum to knit this for Octavia, it is a ballet dancer girl her name is Rosebud and yes that is a rosebud on her bottom! Octavia has taken her to bed everynight (with the 4 bunnies).

Just Things At Our House

The other weekend I went to Sydney and found this cool jewellery hanger. All my necklaces were all messy in the wardrobe so this is much better.

After we tidied up the jewellery. Justin arrived home with the shoe organizer. Maybe it was because I had arrived home from Sydney with 5 new pairs of shoes.

These are our Hermit crabs, their names are Wayne, Dwayne and Shelly. I got them some new painted shells in Sydney so we are waiting for them to move to the new shells.

This looks very strange but I had to add a photo of this to show Carolyn. Octavia's godmother 'Carolyn' gave her this hatching crocodile and the growing unicorn below and she wanted to see how they turned out, so Octavia told me to put them on the blog to show Cazie. So here they are after a week of growing in the water.

Parties and Pressies

Princess perfume and a pink footy "What every five year old girl wants for her birthday".

Next was roller skates "Justin did check our health insurance"!!!

After having a quick lesson with Justin, I found her on the lounge reading her book!!!

She was checking up how to roller skate. She is soo.. by the book!!

All ready for the birthday party. Beautiful sweet girls! "Maybe"

Birthday Cakes

I am lucky that Justin's Mother (Nannie Chel) is clever at making cakes so the girl's just put their order in and they turn up looking like they are straight out of the book. This was Octavia's cake for her birthday yesterday. She was very excited about turning FIVE hence the cake.

I just had to show you last years cake (Octavia's 4th Birthday) I'm sure it took Nannie Chel two days to make. "amazing"