Joshua turns 14

It was Joshua's 14th birthday this week. This is the first party I've done where quite a few of the boys were almost taller than me! Strange times. Poor Bethany was slightly outnumbered. We went to Laserfun to shoot lasers at each other. I'm a little out of my depth with teenage parties! We are a little past pass the parcel and jelly and ice cream. Still, apparently it was cool and Josh had a waiting list of friends at school who wanted to come if anyone dropped out. Ruben was not impressed that he was too young to join in (minimum age 6) but he was placated with a slushy and pretending to play one of the shooting games. Well he thought it was working, but I didn't put any money in! 

 I've decided I've had enough of novelty cakes and decided to go for plain chocolate. Not quite as exciting, but it probably tasted better. No fondant or scary colour butter cream icing in sight! Josh was happy so that's what counts. 

Sorry about the limited photos. I've just deleted  a few as I'm not sure what the etiquette is for posting pictures of other peoples children on line. 

Sunday afternoon at the creek

Cairns has lots of creeks that you can paddle and swim in. It's a nice way to cool off on a hot day. It's very hard to drag the kids home again.

Lawn mower boy

Ruben's absolute favourite thing to do is to mow the lawn with daddy. Fortunately for him, less so for Daniel, there is quite a lot of mowing to be done in Queensland. On the up side his enthusiasm means that our grass never gets too long. Ruben faithfully mows up and down with his mower alongside his daddy.

Class Dojo

Caleb's teacher at school uses this class Dojo app to update us on Caleb's behaviour and achievements throughout the school week. He also uploads photos for us. 


This term Caleb's class are doing a Surf Lifesaving program with Cairns Surf club. Here is Caleb on the beach taken by one of his class mates. He is wearing a 'Stinger suit' to protect him from the jellyfish!

Barron River National Park

On Sunday we went for a walk in the Barron River National Park and then for a swim in a water hole. Unfortunately the battery died on the camera so only a few photos. Caleb and Bethany went storming on ahead so not many of them either.! Quite hard going for Ruben who was a bit small to manage some of the route and a bit heavy to carry.

Ruben

Ruben is not a huge fan of soft toys.  He prefers to snuggle up with a couple of vehicles!!

Rodeo

A couple of weekends ago we went to the Mareeba rodeo. 

This was Ruben's favourite bit, the trucks watering the sand at the lunchtime break. He was puzzled when everybody else left for lunch. "Mummy where's everybody going, they're going to miss the trucks?"