The farm.

I took the babies to the Children's Farm the other day. They always have twice daily cow milking demonstrations, but until now we've never participated as the babies were too little to really care.  So on this day, Noah (and I) had our very first try at cow milking...Suffice to say, I'm not seeing any desire for agriculture careers in our futures.  Noah also had a turn brushing the cow, which went over a bit better, and he loved it!

Costco

The very first Costco (and also the first store of its type) opened in Australia yesterday. We braved a visit there tonight with the babies and with Michael's brother, who is the card-carrying member! It was utter mayhem! There were swarms of people hoping to get some good deals and some American goodies. Carts were overflowing left and right! 

This is the line just waiting to get in the front door

Moving & Double Trouble

We are moving in 2 weeks! It is coming around very, very quickly and we have been starting to pack up our house so that it doesn't seem like an impossible task at the last minute.  An upside to living amongst boxes is that there are now some fun cubby holes empty for playing. Here they are pretending to sleep in the living room cupboards- they kept lying down, snoring, closing the doors, and giggling endlessly. They also like to lick each other as seen in the last photo (I take exemption from responsibility on this one- its an AUSSIE thing:) And Noah thinks licking HAS to be on the other person's tongue, not a cheek or arm etc. Gross. I know. Great blackmail material when he's in high school I guess. 

the ballerina

6 years ago...

Happy anniversary Michael, I love you!

Another thirtysomething birthday...

...for Michael.  However, I think it was Noah who was most excited about it because he knows a birthday means there is cake and more importantly, blowing out candles! 

Here is Noah blowing out candles at BREAKFAST. He could not wait any longer.

Here's Noah at the party that evening singing Happy Birthday and adding "hip, hip hooray" at the end (with arm emphatically raised, of course). 

And MORE candles. I think we relit them 6 times so he could keep blowing them out! 

I made Michael an iPhone cake which consisted of cupcakes placed into a sheet cake.  Each "application" was created out of icing, food coloring, a rolling pin, and the steadiness of hand of a brain surgeon :)  They were attached to the cupcakes by a generously piped layer of home-made chocolate ganache. Its certainly not perfect; I learned a lot along the way, but it was fun nonetheless.

His 'n' Hers train sets

And this is why we are moving...Need. More. Space.