Christmas 2015

You've been looking forward to opening all the presents under the tree and everyday you would ask me if it was time to open the presents yet. It was no surprise once we gave you the go-ahead to open the presents, you did so with great gusto! I'll upload some videos showing you in action later. For now, I'll upload some lovely family photos we took around the tree.

 Isaac was so excited to play with you! Hopefully next year you guys will be able to make the most of all the Thomas train sets we have at home.

Alpaca farmstay at the Hunter Valley

We drove for 2 hours to Hunter Valley to stay at an Alpaca farm for 3 days. Mummy is starting a new job so I thought it would be nice to take a few days for a family trip and to also celebrate Daddy's birthday. I booked a farm stay thinking you would enjoy seeing the farm animals. The accommodation also looked quite nice with a 2 bedroom cottage overlooking the water. In the morning, I tried to prepare you for our trip to the farm. This was your lackluster response:

Never mind, I thought once you got to the farm, you would be really excited about seeing the animals.

We arrived in the afternoon to a beautiful view of the water in front of our cottage.

Here's the cottage where we spent 3 nights.

Our cottage in the background

We  went to feed the alpacas. You were quite scared at first and so was Daddy. The alpacas were quite aggressive when they heard the rattle of the bucket with the food.

20 months: first holiday to Vanuatu!

We had a our first overseas family holiday last week to Vanuatu, a 3 hour flight from Sydney. I picked Aquana resort because it was voted the best family resort, with nannies and lots of kids activities, though we weren't able to take advantage of the nanny service because you refused to stay with any of the nice nannies there. We did lots of fun activities though, like kayaking around the bay. You were happy to walk around in the life vest and then almost fell asleep on the water while Daddy paddled around. Photos below are from the SLR, I've got more photos and videos on our small camera, will upload in another post.

Here is a video showing the resort and the bungalow we were staying in.

The lovely view at the resort.

The resort had the biggest cat I've ever seen!

You loved wearing the Thomas swimsuit and playing in the pool in the inflatable police car.

You weren't so keen splashing in the lagoon though!