Passports!

We are busy planning our trip to America for April/May 2012.

First step is done, all have new passports!!!

Here they are….. de-identified of course! – I love a 3yr old mug-shot!

 

Swimming Lessons. 3years 4months old

Ben and Ethan are going to swimming lessons on Mondays and Thursdays. They are really loving swimming lessons at the moment, and they are doing really well. Last Monday I took the good camera (I usually use my iphone) and took some photos and video with it.

 

Song to start….. “when all the cows were sleeping, and the sun had gone to bed….” 

…. “up jumped the scarecrow and this is what he said……. i’m a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat, i can splash my hands like this, and stomp my feet like that”….

Water on Ethan’s head.

Water on Ben’s head 

Ben puts his face in to find the ring

Ethan’s face in to find the ring….

Not that they need encouragement to put their face under anymore. This is what they do while waiting for their turn

Kicking practice.

We are so proud of our clever little swimmers.

Just for a fun comparison, I have made two little videos of the boys swimming. The first is from a few months ago (Age 2y9m to 3y2m), and the second is from this week to see the improvement (3yr4m).

 

 

 

At the beach!!

We had a beautiful warm spring day yesterday so we took a trip to the beach.

The last time we went to the beach, was the summer when they were 18-20 months old (except for a walk on the beach on our camping trip last year). Our experience when they were younger was quite a disaster, they didn’t like the sand, they didn’t like the waves/water and they cried about getting cold and sandy……so last summer we didn’t really go to the beach.

Yesterday was a totally different experience. They LOVED the beach. The LOVED the sand and the water. It was fantastic in the rock pool. The first 20-30metres of the rock pool was really shallow, about knee depth for a toddler. It was perfect. They could run out in the water and it was really safe. There was only about 10 kids in a huge pool and they were all 2-4 years old, and everyone was happy and playing in the water.

I dug two huge holes, and the boys had great fun running in the water, collecting a bucket of water, then dumping it in the hole. They jumped in the holes, and then when they got tired, they rested in their holes too. We spent about an hour on the beach and it was so much fun. We look forward to many trips to the beach this summer.

The next 3 photos are what I get with 3yr old twins when you ask them both to look up for a photo!

We love sunny spring mornings at the park

Spring is coming, and we have had a few warm sunny days in the last 2 weeks. We are looking forward to the warmer weather and playing outside with our energetic little boys. Ben and Ethan have so much energy, that a couple of hours at the park is a perfect way to work out that extra energy.

The photos below are from a morning at the park this week.