A late recap on February

February is full of birthday's for us.  Although Heidi wants to make everyone a cake (whether or not they live close or distant), I managed to hold her off until February 23rd.  This is Poppa's birthday.  Firstly, birthday cards were created.

 

 

Then birthday cake was made, with everyone's help.

 

 

A chico baby football match was the end result...Poppa loved it :-)

 Presents were given, however Lewis was unable to hold in his excitement and blurted out what was in the present before Poppa had a chance to open it!  The kids have been engaging in water pistol warfare on Poppa lately, so to help keep things even Poppa now has his very own triple barrel water pistol!!

 



 

 

 

Also in February, we headed to Church to have Lewis and Rhys baptised.  Lewis cried most of the time but Rhys relished in the holy water.



 

 

We now have a strong association with Fr Shaji Joesph.  He married Darryn and I and has now baptised all three of our children.

 

 

Of course there was cake to celebrate.  I can't take credit for this little masterpiece though.  A yummy ice-cream cake was certainly enjoyed by young and old!!

We also enjoyed a quick trip to Bundaberg to look at a new car.  The kids were less interested in the car but did thoroughly enjoy the sun, surf and sand!

 

Reelenuff headed off in search of Barramundi in the mighty Fitzroy, only to return home empty handed....

 

 

 

Seeing as Darryn is having trouble catching fish, the kids have started their fishing apprenticeship.  All they want to do is wind the line in!!  However, after some gentle words from Darryn on the importance of patience while fishing they enjoyed waiting for the elusive bite!

 

 

 

Finally they got a bite! Instead of reeling in the big one - they both took off up the dam bank not wanting any piece of the action!!  I don't get excited about fishing but I am more than happy to forego the waiting and just step in when the action starts.  

It was up to me to wind in what we thought was a turtle but turned out to be a big slippery eel!

 The prize catch - note the three scaredy cats in the background!  We ended up with two eels for the afternoon.

We even had a little visitor who was looking to cool off.

 

In other pig news, both Peppa and Sparkles have had their piglets.  We have 11 piglets in total, standby for some photos...

 

We now have a very special 4th birthday fast approaching, so I better get cracking on the birthday cake....stay tuned for Heidi's birthday in pictures....