Ian and Kath get married, Luca wears a tie

The family ready to go.

The Godfather and his capo.

Kath walking down the aisle with her mum.

 The wedding was in the Barn at Yering Station.

 Two nicely turned out gentlemen.

 

The boys!

The wedding party on the move.

Frere et soeur - wedding edition.

Making new friends with Siobhan.

The best man making a really amazing speech.

The awesome MC and his lady wife.

Completing their tax returns during a lull in the proceedings.

Heartfelt words from the groom.

And beautiful bride.

A thumbprint tree of all the guests - we're on the left hand side (Annick's 'leaf' is very small!)

Annick said...

'bain'

At least, we are pretty sure she was trying to say 'bain'.  She had a go at 'bath' too. 

Luca's first word (for sures) was 'bas', so clearly they have both plumped for words that sound like something they can already say, but are delighted to find actually means something.

Annick - 49 weeks, Luca - nearly 35 months

Both kidlets nearly 1 and 3!  Arg!  And capable of making beautiful pictures for Ah Ma's birthday.

Annick:
- loves going up and down the stairs
- squatting, trying to stand on her own
- pointing like a champion
- gives coco bongs on request
- loves drawing with crayons
- makes all the cat and dog noises in Hairy Maclary while we read
- still the drama queen - throws herself on the floor to show you how upset she is that a) you have put her on the ground, b) Luca looks like he might touch her, c) she is only wearing one sock
- exploring exploring exploring!

Luca:
- talking up a storm
- 'loves' everything:

   - Mama: do you want to watch this DVD?

   - Luca: I LOVE DVDs!

   - Mama (mutters to self): hmm, I hope this is DVD is region 4

   - Luca: I LOVE region 4!

- helps mama around the house - sets the table, loads the washing machine, unpacks the dishwasher (sort of)
- loves songs (last request on the ipod: One More Night by Phil Collins) and singing nursery rhymes (the one that goes 'Everything fell down lady!' we worked out was London Bridge)
- favourite books right now: Stuck by Oliver Jeffers (STILL), Inside Outside Upside Down by the Berenstains, Maisy (also STILL), Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper

Mmmmmmmm... corn.

Hello Ah Kong!

Annick is 'helping'.

Luca's bedtime buddies - Little Yellow Bear, Bigheaded Rabbit, Jemima and Humpty.

Annick's favourite part of the house, the bottom kitchen drawer.

Why yes, probably.

Mama does some sewing - a dress for Ee Hui & Kath's wedding next week and a coat for the winter.

Look at these funny people!  They need to be wearing sequinned baby cheetah t-shirts like all the best people are.

Curly slides are the best ones!

Luca and Annick LOVE Play School.

Annick - 47 weeks, Luca - 34 months

Annick:
- settling into creche really well, although bringing home household-crushing viruses
- crawling and kneeling and standing and climbing...
- "mama mama mama" and occasionally "papa papa"
- gives big squishy KISSES
- LOVES pushing trucks and cars and trains about
- is particularly fond of the kitchen drawers, especially the one with the plastic bowls in it
- l'explorateuse
- tipped a chair on top of herself and gave herself a bloody nose

Luca:
- also settling into creche well, maybe even better than he was at the old one
- awesome speech development over the past few weeks!  Speaking in past tense, explaining processes, describing things - good work ti-gars!
- fallen victim the worst of everyone to the Annick virus, poor poppet
- so good at independent play, especially if given a selection of boxes and tubes and totally random household objects
- all about mama again
- still learning 'ne frappe pas'...

Like brother like sister - Luca and Annick at 11 months.

Mmm - le melon d'eau!

Les histoires avec papa - le livre prefere de Luca au moment: 365 Pingouins par Jean-Luc Fromental et Joelle Jolivet.

Hi!

Confortable ensemble.

Vroum vroum!

Ooh, duplo!

Le beau garcon - il aura 3 ans bientot!

Still all about the fingers and the eyebrows (or 'eyebwowns')

Exploring at Abbotsford Convent!

Et, bien sur, la tortanille et le pastiera pour Paques.  Miam!

La famille

Nonna gave Luca some hearts to stick to the window and he has assigned each one to someone important.

Annick - 44 weeks, Luca - nearly 34 months

Annick:
- awesome pulling to standing!
- a chatty little monkey
- says 'mama' a lot, on occasion 'papa'
- mini little drama queen
- sleeping through the night
- starting creche

Luca:
- awesome language skills coming along!  Conjunctions, pronouns, prepositions!
- some weird picky eating kick
- still all about the Duplo
- dropping his daytime nap and being cranky about it
- starting at a new creche with Annick
- shrieky

Papa and Luca and Ah Kong go to the Air Show and get to go inside an old plane!

Un beau apres-midi a Melbourne.

This lovely busker has instruments out for little kids to get down and boogie - which is exactly what Annick did (Luca spent most of the time arranging the tambourines in a pleasing design).

Just hanging with my dad.

 Le beau garcon.

Annick helps papa set up the new carosse and practises standing up at the same time - MULTITASKING WIN.

The helmet is a little big.

Luca's favourite past-time.

He's all eyelashes and teeth.

Playing together.

Portrait of mama and baby and hand.

Ah Kong tastes Luca's delicious cooking.

Thank you Ah Kong for the awesome trailer!

She ate a whole bowl of tau fu fa HERSELF.

Story time!