We are still in the land of the living!!

Time to post a few recent pics seeing as I've done the email update! Things are fairly quiet on the home front, as we all recover from our bugs! We are looking forward to heading off to WA on the 27th of December, so blog updates may be a few and far between until closer to the end of January.

Quinlan and Sebastian enjoying the water on a warm spring day!

Chubba Bubba and his fingers!

One wet afternoon in November, the 27th to be precise, we had an end of year/farewell Church BBQ for the group in Hobart. Quinlan and his little friend Jedidiah had great fun playing in the rain (hence the drowned rat look) and playing peek-a-boo with one of the poles from the BBQ shelter (they could see each other through it and were blowing raspberries and giggling like girls).







And.........Sebastian's latest trick, there have been a few, has been to pull himself up onto his knees. The rocking moose was just the right height to practice this new trick on! These photo's are the most recent, taken just this morning!!

Toothy grin!

Very proud of this achievement!

Well that's all for this time! We hope and pray that you all have a blessed Christmas and we hope too see many of you soon!

Love Larry, Bj, Quinlan and Sebastian

Look What Happens When......

.........Quinlan wakes up at 5am (and doesn't go back to sleep) and you spend almost the whole day shopping and skip your afternoon nap! Yep, you fall asleep in the beanbag while watching Finley, before dinner!

I think someone was a little bit tired after todays adventures!

Dinner Time!!

When small fussy child wont eat homemade apricot chicken and veg mush, don;t waste it! Turn it into pasta sauce and let him feed himself! Warning, this method has proven to be very messy but quite effective! (It also helps if said child is dressed in an outfit of the same or similar colour to what he is eating, it hides the spillage!)





Thats all for now!

Quinlan!

Why are the leaves falling out of my bucket??


Having a 'dag' day outside! "Mum what were you thinking? Thermals with shorts and a t-shirt and crocs?"


Yep, another one who loves the swing (or sim as he calls it)!



Here I come...... (that's Quinlan's little friend, Jedidiah, in the background. They were busy playing 'soccer' at our Church camp a while ago).



There I go!



All dressed for the outdoors! He put his hat on backwards, it was the only way he would wear his cap from Grandad for the first few weeks!

Sebastian

Just a few of Sebastian! Yes, he loves the swing at the park! He loves his bath! But most of all, he still loves his fingers!! He is our cheeky little monkey! Always full of smiles and mischief!

It's been a while!

I thought I had better let you all know that we are still in the land of the living!! Life has been pretty hectic over the last months. When we get around to downloading all the recent photos, including the ones from Quinlan's birthday I will post a whole heap. But for now, I have just one new one. This was taken at the beginning of October, so it's a fairly recent one of Bubba (aka Sebastian).




Til next time!
Luv Bj, Larry, Quinlan and Sebastian

Jumpin' is Jolly Fun

We found the long lost Jolly Jumper and set it up the other day for Master Sebastian! One thing he and his big bro have in common is their love for similar activities! Maybe that's because most babies like these sorts of things (ie. nappy free time, staring out the window, rolling and jumping!).

Here is a video of Sebastian's first jumps in the Jolly Jumper. Quinlan (who was just out of bed, therefore the no pants and very attractive nappy look) was also rather fascinated by all the goings on and insisted on 'helping'!




Been playing with Linux lately and the "easy to use Ubuntu 10.04". With ffmpeg I could get the file size down to 2MB rather than the 100 odd MBs so that's cool.
Beej and Loz (who had to add his bit at the end of this post :) hehehehe)

Sorry about the sore neck you're going to get from watching this...

As far as East is from West

... is not how far we travelled on this day, but boy, as the good Dr Z prophesied, did we go FAR!


The previous post was mainly about Lake St Clair. This post includes some LSC (pumphouse above, that was never actually used but was built for emergencies) but also includes some incredible shots that nearly made me fall off the kitchen chair really...

In short, we thought: "Hmm, weather looks pretty bland (compared to previous day anyway), lets drive to Queenstown and beyond, then travel back to Hobart in a single day!"

Here are some pics along the way, I think some are Mt Arrowsmith, Frenchmans Cap (in far distance and with a cold looking white cap), and various Mtns coming into Queenstown.




Well, if you drive round lots of corners and down into Queenstown, it is possible that small kids in said car might get slightly sick. We found this out shortly before arriving in Strahan and leaving Queenstown.


However, he did enjoy chasing seagulls and ducks at the Strahan foreshore. The journey back was slightly slower on the switch-backs through the passes and was incredible. On the way back we did enjoy a lack-lustre pub meal at fog-shrouded New Norfolk.

Lake St Clair

Its Larry here with another update to the goings ons (is that grammatically correct?) with the Tassie Huizingas.

First up some photos of Lake St Clair and our foray into the western wilds (from within the mighty Corolla...).

We travelled out to Lake St Clair on (I think) the Wednesday morning(ish) a couple of weeks ago and arrived at lake St Clair in fairly good conditions. Wait, it was actually a Monday. The weather was greyish but none too cold. Upon arrival we were greeted by many Kookaburras in the forest around.


Quinlan liked this and we found that we had the Camp Kitchen to ourselves. Hence, we enjoyed our pancakes for brekkie the next day.

The next morning we had Pancakes for brekkie based on a family tradition....



Q and Dad went walking in the mist while the Paparazzi (Bj) snapped away in natures best filter effects.





Some shots of Lake St Clair. Part of the track along Lake St Clair forms part of the overland track which heads over ranges near Mt Ossa and Pelion hut (more on this in a future blog) towards Cradle Mt. We walked a route that went along Aboriginal heritage trail and then down to the lake and back. Quinlan walked at least half an hour of this; quite trooper like really!



It was quite a good day. The next day we had a look at pumphouse point and went on our peregrination across the heart of Tassie.... Insane! Stay tuned...

A Quickture

Okay Okay, I missed you all

Hey guys.  This is Larry.  Meet Larry.  He is quite cool; probably because he hides away in rooms and works while he should be out playing soccer with little lads.

I thought I might post some shots of the goings on around the place.  Nothing quite so extravagant as at any of the other siblings, but still interesting perhaps to some.

 

In the one, his feet are missing; in the other, they are definitely there!

Yes well.  He can make himself quite at home in the backyard which is good.  On show here is his birthday pressie from his Hobart Granny.

And now for the Seb shots.  Lets face it, that’s why were here.

Thanks M+D for providing the necessary Moola for the wide range of nappies Bj is able to procure.  I’m not sure which is the focus of this pic.

 

These pics speak for themself!

Baptism Photos

The little man Sebastian was baptised on the 28th of February with Rev Eikelboom officiating.  We had a number of visitors to the service during the day including the folks from Launceston.  Here are a few more snaps taken on Sunday:

Granny Elaine has to live up to the title of godmother.  All the best with that Eg.

Of course Quinlan is being a great big brother so far.