tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27153396451551258222024-02-21T00:29:54.646+08:00Pembroke RdJason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.comBlogger436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-23154093092738187022015-02-06T07:24:00.000+08:002015-02-06T07:24:04.283+08:00Ethan starts school kindy!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This week was a big milestone for us, Ethan started the school based 4 year old kindy program! He has been very excited about "big boys school" for a while and we have been counting down since Christmas for this day to arrive! </div>
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School in WA is a little different to what we knew from NZ, there are 3 year old kindy programs, 4 year old kindy programs, pre primary, then years 1 - 13. Entry into each "year" is based on when in the year kids are born. Ethan was able to start 4 year old kindy this year as he was born between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011 (so he will be one of the youngest in his year). For this kids form 1 July 2011 (not much younger than Ethan), they wouldn't be eligible for the 4 year old Kindy program until next year. </div>
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Kindy at Ethan's school is a 5 day fortnight, so he attends every Thursday and Friday and every second Wednesday. His daycare also runs a kindy program, however at $100 a day compared with around $500 a year for public school, the choice was a no-brainer for Ethan to head off to the school based program!</div>
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Yesterday was Ethan's first "day" (it was only 8.40 - 11.00 - he won't have his full days until next week). Ethan was up in the 5's and school doesn't start until 8.40 so we still had hours to wait yesterday morning! But when it was time to go Ethan was pretty excited! </div>
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We tried to get some family photos but no luck of getting any nice ones as we actually didn't leave enough time in the end!</div>
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Here Ethan is at the entrance to school, this is where he will spend the next few years!</div>
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Ethan was quite excited when we finally got into the classroom! I think that he was most impressed with the interactive whiteboard! </div>
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It seemed like I had barely dropped him off when it was time to pick him up again! But he had a good day and is looking forward to going back again today! </div>
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Charlotte also went well (I was worried about the drop off and pick up times working with her sleeps. Yesterday she slept until 7.45, we dropped Ethan off at 8.40 - 9.00, came home and Charlotte was back down for her sleep by 9.25. She then woke up in time for Ethan's pick up at 11am. I was pleased as I didn't have to wake her. So all in all it was a successful first day!</div>
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<br />Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-57603001679084596742015-01-10T10:30:00.003+08:002015-01-10T10:30:34.513+08:002014 in ReviewWow, 2014, what a year it was! It's great to look back and reflect on the year that was, although as a family of four now there's not much reflecting and pondering going on, I'm writing this blog in the spare 5 minutes that I have 10 days into 2015! Time is a precious commodity right now and it always seems like it's in shortfall!<br />
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So here's a quick rundown of what I remember from 2014 for you (in no particular order)...<br />
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In November we welcomed our darling Charlotte Rose into the world, she has been a delightful addition and has made our family complete.<br />
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In February Jason took the swimming world by storm, absolutely smashing his goals in the Rottnest Island swim.<br />
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Ethan celebrated his 3rd birthday with a very successful pirate party!<br />
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Ethan also completed his toilet training (apart from a small regression when Charlotte was born).<br />
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We had a great family holiday in Dunsborough (one which we hope to repeat many times over the next 20 - 30 years), we also got to visit Victoria for Jason's Dad's 60th birthday!<br />
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Jason and I celebrated being married 10 years (wow is it 10 years already!).<br />
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Jason carried on his sporting achievements with winning his water polo grand final again! Sport took a backseat for me this year being pregnant, but I did complete my 500km of pregnant walking challenge!<br />
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Ethan started swimming lessons on his own (no parent involvement) and quickly graduated from a yabbie to a barracuda!<br />
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Unfortunately, after many safe years, I was knocked off my bike while in the early stages of pregnancy. I stopped riding after that incident! The positive out of this accident was that it bought the car safety message a little closer to home for Ethan.<br />
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We replaced our brick patio with lovely new lawn and replaced our old mazda with a far safer and more reliable car; and<br />
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Ethan had a second set of grommets put in (just before Christmas).<br />
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So as you can see 2014 was another eventful year for us, we are thankful for all our family and friends for all the love and support we get, we are thankful for the opportunities presented to us and we are proud of the challenges that we faced and overcame.<br />
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Here's to a new and exciting 2015!Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-13434345243361983322014-12-29T09:28:00.002+08:002014-12-29T09:29:04.879+08:00Our blue eyed girl and our brown eyed boy!<div style="text-align: center;">
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We couldn't be more proud, here are our two gorgeous children - our very blue eyed (for now) Charlotte and our brown eyed Ethan! I know I am biased, but how lovely are they!</div>
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I love seeing my babies together, although I am sure that Ethan would prefer it if Charlotte actually played with him! I know there are many years yet for that to happen but in Ethan's mind he wants it now! In the meantime, we all need to be happy with the occasional cuddle! </div>
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Ethan is very gentle with his sister, which I am very pleased to see! </div>
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How gorgeous are they together! I couldn't pick between these three photos so you get them all!</div>
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One day over the Christmas break we couldn't get Charlotte to settle very well, we thought it was because she was too hot so the kids had their first swim together... it worked and Charlotte had a short sleep after this swim!</div>
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We had a few tricky days over Christmas with Charlotte and settling her during the day. On one of the days we tried to walk her to sleep. Unfortunately this day it didn't work... but we did get a change of scenery at the park which was good for all of us!</div>
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<br />Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-88969355553633159002014-12-29T09:10:00.001+08:002014-12-29T09:10:03.973+08:00Milestones!<div style="text-align: center;">
Charlotte is growing very fast, I can't believe how fast time flies! </div>
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Charlotte is very busy learning how to hold her head up - she is getting very good at it as well!</div>
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Charlotte is also smiling at us a lot now, although sometimes its hard to catch it on the camera (as you can see in the photo on the far right).</div>
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I can't believe that Charlotte was 6 weeks old before Christmas... where has the time gone!</div>
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Charlotte is already starting to try and laugh and she coos at us all the time. She is also starting to try to roll a little by doing some amazing back bends! It'll be a while yet but she is definitely practicing!</div>
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Unfortunately the next milestone is her first lot of immunisations on New Years Eve, lets hope she takes them in her stride like her older brother did!</div>
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There's ham in the fridge, presents under the tree and the anticipation is rising - it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at our house!</div>
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The tree has been up for a while in all its sparkling glory!</div>
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On the tree are the decorations that Ethan has made at daycare over the years, these are very special keepsakes for years to come.</div>
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Ethan and Charlotte visited Santa and got these great photos. Ethan told Santa that he wanted a Spider Monkey for Christmas... Santa wasn't sure what to make of that request! Santa also wrote Ethan a letter telling him that he made the "nice" list this year and that his friends also made the list!</div>
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Merry Christmas to all my readers, I hope you have a safe and happy holiday season spending time with loved ones.</div>
Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-86127330771019449602014-12-15T09:45:00.000+08:002014-12-15T09:45:00.400+08:00A weighty tale (for Charlotte)When Ethan was around 4 weeks old I did an update of how his weight progressed through the weeks (read <a href="http://pembrokerd.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/weighty-tale.html">here</a>). So I thought that I should do a similar post for Charlotte:<br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Day 4: Discharge from hospital - 3.180 kg (-195 gm)</li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Day 14: Child Health clinic - 3.608 kg (+ 278 gm)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Day 21: Child Health clinic- 4.042 kg (+ 434 gm)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Day 30: <span style="line-height: 19.4039993286133px;"> Child Health clinic- 4.518 kg (+ 476 gm)</span></li>
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There's no doubt that Ethan likes to dress up! On any one day he will be Optimus Prime, IronMan, a Ninja Turtle, Spiderman, a Pirate or anything else his imagination wants to be! We have a few costumes which we have picked up over the years but if we don't have the costume Ethan improvises (or asks me for a very amateur face paint).</div>
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Ethan loves being Optimus Prime. Here he is in "truck" format as well as full transformer format.</div>
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Spiderman remains a firm favourite in this household! Not sure what we will do when he grows out of this suit!</div>
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Ethan loves being a pirate and making us all "walk the plank, me hearties" </div>
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My face paint on the left (Optimus Prime) vs a professional on the right!</div>
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<br />Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-15727623237996067732014-11-29T08:03:00.003+08:002014-11-29T08:03:30.694+08:00The arrival of Charlotte Rose Papps - born 11 November 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
At 2.19pm on Remembrance Day (11/11/2014) Charlotte Rose Papps was born via C-Section. Charlotte had been lying sideways for much of the pregnancy which meant that C-Section was the only safe option for giving birth (for both mum and daughter). As it happened, Charlotte's cord was also round her neck.</div>
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Charlotte needed two lots of oxygen following her birth, but once the paediatrician and the midwife were happy with her we were allowed our first hold - she was much smaller than her big brother (by nearly a whole kg) at 3375kg (7lb 7oz), 49cm with a 36cm head.</div>
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We were able to head straight back to ward after the surgery (where they also removed a cyst from my ovary) bypassing recovery. This was great as we could all stay together from the moment Charlotte was born. </div>
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Charlotte took a while before her first feed... after 6 hours the midwife expressed some colostrum for her (1 ml) and fed her that. It probably wasn't until 10 hours post her birth that she had her first breast feed. </div>
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I was generally pretty lucky with my C-section recovery as I had a shower the evening after she was born, most patients won't be up and about until the next day. I felt great after the shower and it meant that I had a better night than I otherwise would have I think. We went private care this time, so Jason was able to stay the night which meant that he was able to do all the nappy changes for that first night for me.</div>
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Ethan came to meet his sister for the first time on Wednesday morning. He was super excited and very proud! I loved seeing how gentle he was with his sister!</div>
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Ethan visited us every day in the hospital. </div>
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Ethan was on hand to help with the daily bath at the hospital as well, which was lovely and gave mum time to have a shower and a rest!</div>
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Baby Charlotte has been a good sleeper thus far, here are a few shots of her first few days in hospital. She came out so much smaller than Ethan that we needed a couple of emergency trips to the shops for some smaller clothes!</div>
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More hospital photos of Charlotte! Looking gorgeous in the outfit her Daddy picked out for her! The far right photo in this collage is our first selfie together (taken at 2.30am).</div>
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We got out of hospital on the Saturday following Charlotte's birth, Charlotte seems quite content to be home!</div>
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I have even got some sleepy, milky smiles from Charlotte already (which is lovely). Charlotte likes to have one sleep a day on someone's knee</div>
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Here are some of my favourite photos so far... Charlotte on her rainbow blanket! and one of her first eye open photos!</div>
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Welcome to the world Charlotte Rose Papps!</div>
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120 days before the end of my pregnancy I decided to take on a walking challenge, it was to walk 500km in the remaining 120 days (which averaged out to around 4.2km of walking per day). I had been having a tough pregnancy and as I am a goal oriented person, this challenge was just the thing for me! The rules were simple, I only counted additional walking - no incidental walking (i.e walking that I would have done if I didn't have the challenge) was counted. </div>
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At the start of the challenge I aimed to get a few km in the bank so that I could relax a little bit later on as walking got a bit harder. Initially I walked to work a few times a week (which is around 7km a trip). Here I am mid challenge, all ready to go walking.</div>
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I walked even when there was no outside option. Here I am at the Melbourne Airport hotel, I walked 3km on the treadmill and 1km in the pool.</div>
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We are so lucky to live close to lake monger which has a 3.5km walking path around the lake. Perfect for nice easy pregnant walking!</div>
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We also live close to Yokine reserve, which also has a 3 - 4 km walking track (depending on which path you take).</div>
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I finished the challenge on my birthday with a 3.7km walk (last year for my 36th birthday I ran 36km, so this year I walked 3.7km - next year I hope to run 38km). The belly was getting much bigger here (close to term) and I was a lot slower than earlier days!</div>
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I even managed to talk Jason into coming with me on my birthday walk!</div>
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Here is the record of my walking, as you can see I really tapered off near the end, so it was lucky that I had a few km up my sleeve!</div>
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I finished the challenge 10 days early - which was lucky as wee Charlotte arrived the next day!</div>
Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-60621914752031235552014-11-19T09:07:00.001+08:002014-11-19T09:09:09.777+08:00Project New Lawn - Phase 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After the reticulation was finished the next stage for our lawn project was adding a new soakwell in the area, moving all the dirt in and then levelling the site in readiness to lay the grass. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgZlylsMAm1wElDjpFGnB53bON3w3rXyTDCkVokffCeOnCsc5VoCYHj8hCkp6uvlzRtBmHhOJD2XBAKdI637uBNrVPsykd3sDyG2HqiJUUyXEhieq0KVqrM-q5tOuiek18Rfb61_fdfQ/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgZlylsMAm1wElDjpFGnB53bON3w3rXyTDCkVokffCeOnCsc5VoCYHj8hCkp6uvlzRtBmHhOJD2XBAKdI637uBNrVPsykd3sDyG2HqiJUUyXEhieq0KVqrM-q5tOuiek18Rfb61_fdfQ/s1600/unnamed.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></a></div>
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Last weekend Jason, Ethan and Gran drove north of the city to pick up the 45sqm of grass for laying.</div>
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Wow, what a difference our new lawn makes - how good does this look!</div>
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Lots of extra playing area for the kids, and less scraped knees for our hurricane Ethan!</div>
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We are also anticipating that the additional lawn area will ensure that this area remains a little cooler in the hot summer months ahead! We now have 42 days water use exemption to water and bed down the new lawn! </div>
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So two weeks from start to finish and we have a new lawn! Pretty amazing job by Jason! We will look to replace the existing lawn (as its in pretty poor condition) around March/April next year!</div>
Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-44029205702645375102014-11-09T09:16:00.000+08:002014-11-09T09:17:24.012+08:00Project: New Lawn (Phase 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Last weekend we decided to rip up the old patio and replace with new lawn. We wanted to do this for a couple of reasons - Ethan constantly scrapes his knees on the bricks and its quite hot in this area of 40+ degree Perth Summer days. Here it is before we started!</div>
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Ethan (AKA Spider-Iron Man) came along to help!</div>
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Midway through the job! Each brick weighs between 3.5 - 4kg (we weighed them) and Jason had to move over 1500 of them!</div>
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Here is the pile of bricks as it grew throughout the weekend (latest news is that we managed to sell them all within a day of listing them online). </div>
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Ethan loved the new sand emerging... although his mummy didn't like the sand being traipsed through the house so much!</div>
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Next job was to get some new dirt (just 7 tonnes of it).<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWs8WwKMRh_g6ASQ3HpgbnbX5QQCgJ9GqVO5Or7OyiWVLNmz9hPsc88AMTN0qImhy5-5V-vHTjJWy2cftaDhgdFCdNBccu36PMt_T5rf-TsA66H1fTuSTFoKGi4tsmNa5M9JRVcAXAdQE/s1600/2014_11_071.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWs8WwKMRh_g6ASQ3HpgbnbX5QQCgJ9GqVO5Or7OyiWVLNmz9hPsc88AMTN0qImhy5-5V-vHTjJWy2cftaDhgdFCdNBccu36PMt_T5rf-TsA66H1fTuSTFoKGi4tsmNa5M9JRVcAXAdQE/s1600/2014_11_071.jpg" height="226" width="320" /></a></div>
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We were lucky enough to have a friend of a friend to help lay the reticulation. All done in one day! Its a lot easier to dig trenches in WA sand soil than NZ soil, that's for sure!</div>
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Here is the pipe being laid for the reticulation. </div>
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Finally, Ethan and Jason moving lots and lots of dirt. Hopefully next weekend we will lay the new lawn! I am very excited to see the results (and to stop the sandy foot prints being laid throughout the house!).</div>
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Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-6946442229830866042014-10-22T10:06:00.002+08:002014-10-22T10:06:50.404+08:00Waterfalls in Melbourne!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
While in Melbourne I wanted to take Ethan to some waterfalls given the lack of water and decidedly unspectacular waterfalls over west! The first visit was a chance stop where we saw a sign to a waterfall as we were driving the great ocean road. I did a quick google search and it said that the waterfall was a 10 min walk from the road. Given google usually estimates time for a slower than normal walker we all set out with enthusiasm... especially Ethan (he loves any sort of "adventure").</div>
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10 minutes in and we were still going up and down, 20 mins in and we weren't there yet.... I had visions of us all lost and on the news fore our inappropriate clothing and footwear as well. But we eventually made it and this is what we found!</div>
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On one of our last holiday days we visited a second waterfall... this one, unbeknownst to any of us was down what felt like 1000 steps (in reality it was probably 400 steps!). But it was worth it. It was a lot like NZ bush and I was really pleased to make the trip (although climbing 400 stairs while 30+ weeks pregnant wasn't the easiest thing I have done... and Jason had a passenger on his shoulders for much of the climb as well).</div>
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It was incredible how like NZ the scenery was. </div>
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Ethan and his Gran went on a long adventure walk as well!</div>
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I couldn't resist the obligatory selfie while at the waterfall!</div>
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There are so many waterfalls to visit along the great ocean road and we only saw two of them. It's hard to know the "best" ones to visit but we took a chance with two that we saw street signs for! </div>
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One of the must do's of our trip to Victoria at the start of September was the 12 Apostles - a collection of huge limestone rock features along the Great Ocean Road. I think there are only 8 apostles left now as the others have eroded from the weather and waves leading to collapse - however it is still a great sight and I am really very pleased that we made it down there.</div>
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It was a very long driving day (around 11 hours in total) and I was wondering who would crack first - me or Ethan... as it happened we both made it through the day well!</div>
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Our first stop was above this beach... there were some very steep stairs down to the beach, however we didn't have enough time to get down there and back as we were hoping to get some nice photos of the actual apostles as the sun set.</div>
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The tourist site for the actual apostles was VERY busy with lots of tour buses and private cars. It was much busier than I thought that it would be. Also, while the sun was setting it wasn't the best place for great photos. So after a new photos here we decided to head down the coast a little bit more to the next location.</div>
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It was here that the sun was behind us and we got some lovely light and colour off the rocks. It would have been nice to be here maybe 30 mins earlier to stake out the right spots for photos, but we were basically the only ones here and it was MUCH more peaceful than the main tourist spot!</div>
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There were some amazing rock formations, with lots of detail! Again, I didn't have the right photographic equipment to do it all justice, but it was still an amazing place to visit!</div>
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I Love this photo of my boys with the moon in the background, probably a favourite of the whole holiday!</div>
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We were hoping the sky may have "pinkened" up as the sun set, but that wasn't to happen! I imagine to get amazing sunset shots you need to visit every night for a month to get the right light!</div>
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All in all a great day and a great place to visit. </div>
Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-66596948715206580422014-09-28T08:41:00.001+08:002014-09-28T08:41:51.533+08:00Otway Fly Tree Top Walk <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
While in Victoria recently we visited the Otway Fly Treetop Adventure park, they provided a unique opportunity to view the forest from a bird's eye view through the tree top walk - the longest and tallest tree top walk in the world!</div>
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The park also advertised a dinosaur walk so I thought it would be perfect for a family trip. Unfortunately a recent storm had severely damaged the dinosaurs, with only a couple remaining.... but Ethan was still stoked to see the ones left and he was left none the wiser that there would have normally been a whole dinosaur walk!</div>
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High on the hill was a t-rex and his prey - a very realistic scene and despite the storm damage we all thought it was pretty cool!</div>
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Onto the treetop walk itself, we headed off onto the adventure which started with at least a 1km walk deep down into the forest... at this point I think everyone was thinking about the trek back out (least of all Jason who knew he would be up for carrying Ethan out on his shoulders)!</div>
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The towering trees were lovely but unfortunately we just didn't have the right camera equipment to capture the true scale of the forest!</div>
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We were lucky enough to get Ethan to sit still long enough for a photo with his aunties!</div>
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The sheer size of some of the trees was just phenomenal! And I think everyone enjoyed the spectacular.... and this was before we even hit the walkway itself!</div>
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Finally it was time to head onto the walkway, it was a very safe structure (thankfully as by this stage it seemed like we were 50m above the forest floor).</div>
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There was also an extra high lookout to climb up (we were probably 70 m from the forest floor once we were at the top).... it seemed like a couple of hundred steps to me.... this was where Ethan decided that it was a little scary for him.... which suited his Mama as she was a little more than nervous as well!</div>
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Here we are from the bottom looking back up on the walkway itself!</div>
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All in all it was a wonderful walk which tested some of our boundaries and comfort levels but it was amazing! Once we finished the treetop walk we had to trek out of the forest, it was a climb straight up which tested me at 30 weeks pregnant (at that stage I was very pleased that I had kept up my walking regime as it meant that I still had some sort of fitness). As I predicted, Ethan's little legs soon tired so his Dad got to haul an extra 20kg up the path!</div>
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Day two of our holiday dawned with a bright sun over the hills with a promise of what was to come!</div>
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And what did come was a stunning early spring day, clear blue skies, warm temperatures and beautiful landscapes! I made the most of the beautiful day and went for a nice long walk! </div>
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The Victorian coast line was so lovely, and so different to WA coast line. During my walk I soaked up all the lovely sights and could feel myself relaxing after a couple of busy weeks at work.</div>
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In my 30 week pregnant state I huffed and puffed my way up to the lighthouse and was pleased that I did! It gave another great perspective of the Victorian coast line.... unfortunately it was all too soon that I needed to head back to the holiday house so we could get on with the day's adventures!</div>
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After a very busy first day we had no major plans for day two of our holiday. So Jason suggested a drive to Apollo Bay for lunch. </div>
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The roads were very reminiscent of NZ (and light years apart from WA roads).... windy, narrow and lots of speed restricted corners. But the landscape was stunning. We had a few photo stops along the way.</div>
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Apart from the rib pain and motion sickness for me, it was a wonderful day! It was great seeing Ethan with loving the time spent with his grandparents and aunties and it was what the doctor ordered for Jason and I - time away from work and "real life"....stay tuned for more about our holiday!</div>
Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-53561625213001592602014-09-13T13:59:00.002+08:002014-09-13T13:59:27.942+08:00Werribee Open Range Zoo and Werribee Mansion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Last week we went to Melbourne to meet the Wellington Papps for Grandad Papps' 60th Birthday celebrations. After a night at the airport hotel we headed off down the coast, stopping in at Werribee Open Range Zoo and Werribee Mansion on the way.</div>
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Werribee Zoo is an african themed zoo outside of Melbourne. It is situated on over 500 acres of land and is located on the Werribee river.</div>
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I think Ethan would have almost been happy with just seeing the entrance to the zoo, it was that cool!</div>
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Awesome sculptures of animals to play on and with!</div>
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It was lovely seeing the animals so well cared for and roaming free.</div>
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The giraffes were tall and majestic, and came very close to the bus!</div>
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The rhinos were lazy and seemed to enjoy sitting in the sun! Basking in the fresh spring air.</div>
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The zoo had simulated african villages... such a different life to what we are used to!</div>
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After the bus tour we walked the rest of the park... The hippos were also basking in the sun.</div>
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Ethan had a ball in the park, which included a archaeology digging area for the kids!</div>
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The lions were amazing, and we were only separated by a piece of glass, One lion was on the car bonnet of the car that was half on their side of the glass and half on our side of the glass!</div>
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The zoo was truly wonderful and everyone enjoyed it!</div>
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Right next door to the zoo is Werribee mansion, which upon entering the grounds, we are transported back to 19th century Australia. Apparently weathly sheep farmers built the mansion, finishing back in 1877.</div>
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Here is the gate house!</div>
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The mansion was amazing - we didn't do the inside tour (which I would have loved to do), but the house with the rolling lawns and acres of gardens was a sight to see. I could only imagine the lives of the people who actually lived there once upon a time.</div>
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Down at the bottom of the gardens was the grotto - apparently it was the only place for the "ladies" to get cool in the summer months (inside the grotto was lined with shells and children's teeth...hmmmmm not sure I like the sound of that one!).</div>
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We ended the day in Torquay with a quick walk on the beach, a spot of shopping at the surf stores and some groceries to see us through the next few days! </div>
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All in all a great first day of our holiday!</div>
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Wow, Jason and I recently hit a pretty big milestone! Our 10 year wedding anniversary! It's been a great 10 years and I am sure the next 10 will be just as awesome - albeit more chaotic with two children running around!</div>
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This post is really a picture post recalling some memories over the years! It's quite hard as we very rarely get photos together! So they are all few and far between! So.... without further ado and in no particular order... here are some memories!</div>
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Our wedding day - 22 August 2004, Noosa Australia. It was a fine but windy day, everything was awesome, neither of us would change a thing about our wedding!</div>
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As you can see we have great fun!</div>
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We were blessed with a lovely day, and were able to share it with some of our nearest and dearest... not everyone could make it, but it was an awesome day nonetheless!</div>
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Ahhhhhh... canoe polo was where it all started for us! This was a few years in and doing some casual training on Wellington Harbour after sailing out to this bay on Jason's parent's yacht. </div>
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From left and clockwise.... this is us the night before flying out to Australia for our wedding (we look so young!), next up is us at one of the theme parks in Australia on our honeymoon, and finally Jason and I hosting Christmas at our first house that we bought together!</div>
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Again, left and clockwise... us at Josie and Mark's wedding in the south island, at the taupo car race track where Jason had a few laps in a race car as part of a birthday present and at the end of Jason's epic swim across lake taupo!</div>
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This collage was on another trip to NZ, this time for Sam and marnie's wedding, with a ultra marathon thrown in! Here we are (left and clockwise again) at Orakei Korako Geothermal Reserve (which is just around the corner from where I lived as a child), me at the end of my ultra marathon (so relieved to be finished), Jason and I at the start of our Waitomo Caves caving adventure.... my smile hides how scared I really was here, and another photo of me at the finish line of my race..... </div>
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We start with me and Jason at my 30th birthday, then its us at Busselton watching Ironman WA for the first time, us at Makara, Canberra for the long distance world champs, and finally in Canberra again for my brother's wedding (this collage is a real mix of photos from very varied years!!).</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">One of our many sports trips overseas, this one was to Canada for the 2008 Triathlon World Champs! An awesome trip! So many photos I could have chosen from this trip!!</span></div>
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These photos were on our last trip to NZ! Introducing Ethan to some different nature scenes than what he sees in Australia!</div>
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On our holiday in Dunsborough from earlier this year. This is the first photo of us as a family of 4 as I was very early on in this pregnancy!</div>
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Another photo from our most recent NZ trip - this time on top of Mt Kaukau! </div>
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We are looking forward to whatever adventures come next!</div>
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Ethan has been desperately wanting to go to the Zoo recently so last weekend we donned our raincoats, re-joined the zoo for an annual membership and off we went. What a day it was as well... the animals were all out in force and we have perhaps one of our best visits ever!</div>
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First stop was the reptile house (Ethan's choice of course!).</div>
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We headed through the bird enclosure to see the crocodile!</div>
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A quick sojourn through the kangaroos.... then off to the monkeys! and what a show they put on for us. We were the only ones here and it was amazing! The closest and best view we have ever had of the monkeys! We all loved it!</div>
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The lion was prowling!</div>
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And then we came across some more monkeys.... I mean Ethan! He loved the new ropes near the orangutan enclosure!</div>
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A quick shot of all the monkeys together!</div>
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Even the giraffes were closer than ever before!</div>
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It was a very successful zoo outing and our first one sans pram! Ethan only had one little meltdown when his legs were just getting a bit tired, otherwise we wandered around the zoo for a good couple of hours, if not more.</div>
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After all that walking we stopped for a well deserved lunch on the way home!</div>
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On the weekend just been we had a fair bit of (unplanned) excitement. While I was lucky enough to be having brunch with some girlfriends Ethan and Jason were at home hanging out. While Jason was vacuuming (as Ethan would say "he's a good man") Jason heard a massive crash and then all the power went out.</div>
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He ran out to the road and a contractor fixing the footpath had managed to knock the power pole holding out service wire up, pulling the line from our house (damaging the house in the process) and leaving a live line on the road.</div>
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Jason put out some road cones to stop cars driving over the line, called the power company and starting dealing with the aftermath of a moment's inattention!</div>
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Meanwhile, I was unaware of the drama and action going on at home and enjoying a leisurely brunch and chat!</div>
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I got home and Ethan was so excited... he told me a silly man had knocked our pole and didn't say sorry, which is very naughty!</div>
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We were very fortunate to have a new pole and power back by 4pm the same day! Although I had been on the phone to the insurer about emergency accommodation, just in case!</div>
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The process is an initial fault man gets dispatched to the site to essentially make the area safe, we then needed an electrician to fix up the house side of the wiring and then a reconnection crew comes out and put the new pole in, removes to old pole and reconnects the power! Let me tell you I am glad this happened on a fine day as during storms here the reconnection crews are kept very busy!</div>
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Here are a few photos of our day!</div>
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The power pole hole digger for the new pole.</div>
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Ethan imitating the power pole hole digger!</div>
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Crane lifting the new pole up and getting it into place.</div>
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Some of the numerous vehicles at the empty block next door during the day!</div>
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Our new pole! </div>
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The new pole is in and the old one is chain sawed up!</div>
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All cut up and ready to be taken away!</div>
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As you can imagine it was one exciting day for a little boy! and to tell you a secret, his mama was pretty excited and happy that Jason sorted this out so quickly and efficiently!!!</div>
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Last weekend it was wet and windy in Perth so as we were stuck inside for much of the weekend we needed to come up with some fun indoor activities! We started with guess the animal.... Here we have an elephant, a gorilla and a Koala in a tree! </div>
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What I really enjoyed about this game was that Ethan didn't just copy what animals we had done, he came up with lots of his own!</div>
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Later in the day it was time to draw on the board. Clockwise from top left we did a family portrait, Jason drew Grandad and Ethan drew Grandma, then we all did a self portrait (check out the mullet I gave myself) and on the bottom left was the original family portrait in action!</div>
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Sunday was still raining and Ethan asked to go on a rock adventure... so we dressed in our raincoats and wellies and went to Naturescape at Kings Park.</div>
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There were rocks everywhere.... which satisfied Ethan's request for a rock adventure!<br />
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It was wet but we didn't get rained on! Yay!</div>
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Ethan loved playing in the water with his Dad, building dams, climbing rocks, pretend fishing.... you name it!</div>
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Ethan was so confident over the rocks! I was really impressed! Here he is with his "fishing rod"</div>
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Ethan likes to push the boundaries! I asked him not to go too deep but.....</div>
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Unfortunately that warning went unheeded! Lots of water in the gumboots (lucky we had spare clothes in the car).</div>
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The orange mould on the logs was really interesting! Unfortunately I didn't have time (or the right camera equipment) for great shots as Jason and Ethan were itching to get up the tower!</div>
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My brave wee boy made it all the way up the tower on his own, with close supervision on the way back down from dad!</div>
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Here is the view from the top!</div>
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So all in all a great outing! On the way home we stopped for hot chocolate, coffee and strawberry milkshakes and to pick up some paint for the afternoon!</div>
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During the afternoon we made some paintings, which we cut into butterflies when they dried!</div>
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An enjoyable weekend was had by all, but we would like a little more sun next weekend thank you!!</div>
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Last weekend Ethan declared that he wanted to go on a bush walk! It was a lovely sunny (albeit cool) winter's morning so we were packed in the car and out of the house within 15 minutes of Ethan's request!</div>
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We decided to go to Bold Park near City Beach and started with the short board walk to the top lookout. As you can see Ethan was rearing to go! </div>
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Come on Dad and Mum, Come on!!!</div>
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Halfway up the Boardwalk you get to see the city off in the distance! A great site!</div>
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We were really lucky to spot an eagle circling around above us! Ethan needed my sunglasses to spot him though as it was a lovely bright sunny day!</div>
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Ethan and his Daddy spotted Rottnest Island - it was so clear we could see the island easily (20km off shore). There were also lots and lots of boats out for Ethan to see.</div>
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A funny story of the morning came as Jason was looking intently out to see and said "the whale migration has started" I naturally assumed that he had seem something out in the water so I said "how do you know". I was expecting him to reply along the lines off "see the movement out there in the water"... but no.... his real answer was "I saw it on the news"!!!!</div>
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It was one of those lovely winter's mornings... cold and clear in the morning and really warm in the sun!</div>
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After the boardwalk we walked into Bold Park and did the bush walk that Ethan was after. We explored the tress and leaves around us and a great time!</div>
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Here is Jason at another lookout!</div>
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Ethan liked experimenting with his foot prints in the sand! Contrary to what it looks like with Ethan and his hood on, it wasn't actually cold at this stage! He just likes wearing his hood!</div>
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Ethan the lumberjack found a piece of wood which he promptly threw off the edge! I was waiting for him to go flying with the piece of wood hahahaha!</div>
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After 40 or so minutes we wandered back to the carpark, Ethan decided to check out where we went on the map.</div>
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As soon as we finished this adventure Ethan said "can we do another adventure mummy and daddy".</div>
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A week after Ethan's birthday Grandma, Mummy and Ethan went to Disney on Ice at the Perth Arena. </div>
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We traveled there by train which excited Ethan no end!</div>
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Then we walked from the train station to the arena (past the sinking of the busport project)... which was again a very interesting thing for Ethan!</div>
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We were amongst thousands of 3 - 14 year old kids and their parents walking to the stadium and it was a little worrying that our "runner" Ethan would dart away and be swallowed up by the crowds! </div>
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So it was a relief to make it to our seats! Here is Ethan with his cheesy "cheese" smile. He hasn't yet learned the difference between a grimace and a smile on demand yet!</div>
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As you can imagine it is reasonably difficult to get photos on the iPhone of an ice skating show.... but here are a couple.... the Toy Story opening scene.</div>
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Minney and Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as well as the pirate disney show (the name of which escapes me now - blaming baby brain!).</div>
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As soon as the show ended it was straight in the car to the airport to drop Grandma and Grandad off for their trip back to NZ. As you can see the excitement of the whole day caught up with Ethan and he was out for it within minutes of leaving the airport!</div>
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<br />Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-76537421016506796692014-06-05T11:01:00.000+08:002014-06-05T11:01:04.505+08:00Ahoy me hearties...walk the plank... it's a very special boy's third birthday! Ethan recently turned three and we put on a pirate party for him. We weren't going to have a party this year but he asked for one, and being a soft touch I said yes!!<br />
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Jason and I took the Friday off work to get ready for the party and we made this cake for him!<br />
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Here is some of the party food for the day! The jelly in oranges was a big hit and I am pleased that I made the effort to do it for the kids!<br />
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It had been raining all week and a big storm was scheduled for Ethan's party day. But we borrowed a gazebo style tent and put it up in the patio to extend our under cover area for the kids to play.... as it happened, the two hours of Ethan's party provided the best weather of the whole day. We even got sunshine!<br />
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We had a few activities set up for the kids... a plank to walk, with treasure near the end as a prize and colouring in stations. The trampoline provided the most fun though!<br />
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It was good to see people getting into the spirit of the party!!!<br />
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Ethan had a ball... most of all he loved playing with his best friend Tommy on the trampoline!! (Thanks Grandma for the photos).<br />
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Here is Tommy and Ethan enjoying the jelly!<br />
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All in all we had a wonderful party and Ethan and his friends had a ball!<br />
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A special thanks to Grandma, Grandad, Sandy and Nathan for help on the day and a very special thanks to everyone who made the day so special for Ethan.Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-23783783440164419032014-05-18T07:59:00.000+08:002014-05-18T07:59:10.051+08:00A new addition to the family is on the way!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jason and I are really excited to announce that sometime in November we will be welcoming another little baby into our home! <br />
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Like last time pregnancy for me means extreme tiredness and significant nausea. Which is made all the more difficult with a toddler... no more 4 hour nana naps each weekend day and sometimes I feel that I am barely functioning. But this eased at 16 weeks with Ethan so I am hoping it will this pregnancy as well!<br />
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It's been a tough road this pregnancy, at my dating scan they found a cyst on my ovary. As you can see from the dimensions in the scan below it is quite big (nearly 9cm by 7cm by 8cm). There was discussion of having this removed at 16 weeks pregnant but we are going to try and hold on and get it removed at 6 weeks post partum.<br />
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Then at around 9 - 10 weeks pregnant I was knocked off my bike, luckily the baby was ok and it was the cyst that took the brunt of the impact... there was a concern about rupture but all was ok.<br />
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However last week we had our choromosomal testing scan and while my risk factors are slightly higher than last time, mostly due to maternal age, we are still classified as low risk.<br />
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Here are some shots from the ultrasound!<br />
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The next three shots are 3D and look pretty cool I think!<br />
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We haven't told Ethan yet as 9 months is a long time for us to wait, it would be an eternity for a toddler to wait. We will probably tell him after the 20 week scan (or even later if we can).Jason and Jacinda Pappshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16526355066286059545noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715339645155125822.post-44088338282347852892014-05-09T18:36:00.000+08:002014-05-09T18:36:28.779+08:00What do you do when unable to go to daycare - visit a reptile farm of course! Last Friday Ethan was unable to go to daycare due to a suspected case of conjunctivitis. Jason stayed home with him in the morning and I took the afternoon shift. When I got home I asked Ethan what he wanted to do and he said that he wanted to visit a farm with Snakes and Rhinos....which is essentially the zoo. However I had been meaning to take him to a reptile farm here for a while so I thought it was an opportune time to go so we headed out for an "adventure" (Ethan likes adventures).<br />
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We were the only ones at the park so we spent a good half hour exploring the snake and lizard enclosure.<br />
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The snake keeper then bought out some lizards and snakes for Ethan to hold, while doing so he taught both Ethan and I lots of things about snakes and what to do if you come across a snake.<br />
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I think Ethan was a little uncertain about the lizards tongue!<br />
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Ethan was so brave with the snakes though - here he is with the little snake.<br />
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And here he is with the bigger snake! My heart was in my throat the whole time and I had to fight all my instincts to not grab Ethan away from the snake!<br />
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After the snakes and lizards the keeper bought out a dingo for us to pat and then Ethan and I were left to explore.<br />
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We saw crocodiles, peacocks, wombats, a fox and some kangaroos.<br />
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Soon it was time to head home, but not without a stop at the Margaret River Chocolate Factory for an ice cream!<br />
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