Relaxing and socialising

We’re all continuing to have a lovely time catching up with family and friends. In addition to general lazing about and the occasional standing on one foot….




…… we’ve also been up to country Victoria to see friends Duncan, Kellie, Maggie (in Ballarat), Misty, Dave, Tilly (in Buninyong), Justine, Mark, Angus, Abby and Miranda (in Elphinstone). It is great to get to chat with so many friends – I’m really enjoying it. The kids quite like having a whole new set of toys to play with every day, although when William is tired, he does request to 'go home to Grannie and Grandpa’s'. The holiday is an understandably big change in their normal routine. Sophie is a huge fan of all the pet animals we've met, getting very excited by any cats, dogs and horses our hosts had. She shows no fear, cuddling spaniels, Alsatians, and ridgebacks. She’d point and jig up and down for a cat, try kissing all dogs and was inspired to say her first word: cat. Or, more accurately, caaaaaaaat, as she says it. See below:


Her other recent milestone was tooth number eight.


There has also been some tricky climbing done by William, feeding apples to Henry the horse, strawberry hunting by many kids, and the odd drink out of a boot (by William) on a picnic in the park last week.