Lucinda

The camera’s been out of action for a while, so I haven’t been able to show you Lucinda’s developments. She’s taking a few steps now, and lets the odd word slip (such as “Dog-Dog”, and “Yum”). I wish I could show you her unique one-leg-outboard high speed crawling style.

Here are a few recent snapshots:

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Perfect Holiday

We had a perfect holiday going to Adelaide, the Eyre Peninsula, the Barossa and the Riverland. Bliss. Ethan and Lucinda were fabulous (not one “ARE WE THERE YET??”) We stayed in a wonderful shack on he Eyre Peninsula for 6 days, and I also got a chance to see inside Baxter Detention Facility where I visited a guy there. That was an eye opener.

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Ethan’s 4th birthday Party

Ethan decorated the front of the house and cut out a big 4 and a big E for the front door.

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Party on! Ethan’s party guests were Jake, Chloe and Perry.

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there was a rocket cake …

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with real fire coming from the engines.

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Actually, the cake kind of caught fire.

Fiona trapped in Ethan’s Dragon Trap while Lucinda creates a pasta hurricane

While Fiona was captured as a fearsome Girl Dragon in the elaborate dragon trap, the cute, but formidable, baby beast Lucinda successfully opened a packet of pasta (something Girl Dragons struggle with on a normal day), and stuffed baby fistfuls of raw pasta into her mouth while kicking the rest around the kitchen floor. Girl Dragon was trapped. It was left to SuperBoy Ethan to save the day…

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ethan’s dragon trap.