Belair National Park

On Saturday we decided to go on a family picnic. I had been looking through some pictures earlier in the week and was reminded of a time that we went to Belair National Park. We had only been there one other time and it was when Amie was a baby. At the last minute I decided to grab our good camera so I could practice taking some photos. After a few stops along the way we made it there just in time for some lunch. The kids weren't really interested in eating, they just wanted to go play.

There is a normal playground there, plus a huge wooden fort, plus a hill with concrete tunnels running through it, plus a wooden pole climbing area.

 There was a guy there with his little boy who offered to take this family picture for us.

After the kids had run around for awhile we decided to get back into the car and explore the rest of the park. We found a lake and got out to do some exploring. Lachlan ran down to the water and suddenly there was all these ducks heading towards him. We had some left over bread rolls so I asked Buzz to get them. When he came back the kids and I were surrounded by about 30 ducks! He gave the girls some bread to start giving to the ducks but the ducks started getting very excited. They weren't scared of people at all. The white one was nearly as tall as Haylie. Th girls started to freak out and ran back to the car. Buzz ended up standing on a rock and feeding them all by himself. When the ducks realized all the the bread was gone they walked in a line back to the water. It was so funny to watch.

We all had a great day and decided that we would really like to go back again and take some more of our family with us!

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Just for fun I went back and looked at pictures of our previous trip to Belair and I found this one. It was taken in August 2008 so Lachlan would be about 20 months old.

In this picture he is 8 years and 7 months old. He has definitely lost all of his baby fat.

Random

Every time I plug my phone into my computer up pops iPhoto so that I can upload the pictures. Up until this week I have never done it. I found out that I had about 400 pictures on my phone! Most of them were ones that Haylie had taken so I deleted them but I did find some real gems.

How cute is this. I can hardly remember her being this small anymore. And she had no hair. Love that little bald head.

Another of my cute baby. We were always out and about taking kids to school, kindy, doing shopping, visiting friends and running errands so she did a lot of her naps in the car.

Here is Lachlan doing one of his jumps at the local park. He was so good at it. He would ask me every day if we could go to the park so he could do this. I remember one time though, when he first started to do it and he was on his old bike. It had been raining and there was a large puddle along the gravel path. He was riding along and decided to go right through the puddle! He only got a little way through when his wheels got stuck in the mud and he went flying off his bike landing in the mud. He wasn't really hurt but he was very upset by it and so we had to leave straight away. He wouldn't ride his bike the whole way home.

 Haylie fell over the back of the couch one night, hitting her head on the the floor. I couldn't believe how quickly the bruise and lump came up. By the time I got over to her and picked her up it was already there!

This one was taken in the school holidays. We had just gone bowling and in the shopping centre they had free face painting. Haylie was terrified of Lachlan and would not go near him until it was all washed off later that day!

We are always on the look out for new parks to go to so one Saturday we just drove around looking for some. We stumbled across a few but this one was the favourite of the day.

 During another lot of school holidays we went to Carrick hill to see a fairy play. Afterwards we had a picnic lunch and explored the storybook village in the gardens.

All she wanted for Christmas was her two front teeth!

Lachlan got this fat lip earlier in the day when he was riding his scooter at the park. He was doing a jump and caught the front of his scooter and fell flat on his face. He was lucky to be wearing his helmet or it would have been much worse!

 Our back garden started to flood a bit after days of rain.

At the beginning of the year we took Lachlan to see the Monster Trucks. He loved it!

This is my sleepy baby after her surgery a couple of weeks ago.

Budding Photographer

Haylie loves to take pictures. Anytime she can get her hands on my camera she is off taking pictures of very random things. Here are some of her most recent photos.

Grandma and Poppy visiting on Sunday night

 Cheesy Lachlan!

 Beautiful posing Caitlyn

 A lovely one of myself exercising, minus my head!

Her feet

 Close up of her shoes

 Her favourite show, The Octonauts!

 Caitlyn posing again

 Daddy and Caitlyn having a treat on Monday night

Nice Amie!

Maybe I'll have to show her how to use the camera a bit better for the future. I do like looking at the world through her eyes though, even if they are a bit blurry!