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Friday, July 03, 2009

School holiday - Sciencentre

During school holidays we make sure we visit the museum, state library, parks, etc.

And yesterday we went to the Sciencentre. It offers hours of interactive, science-based fun for kids of all ages (including the 'big kids'!) There are no 'visitors' at the Sciencentre - everyone is a 'participant'. This place is a one hundred percent hands-on experience!

The illusion table - Ethan's head on a plate.

T-Rex and Krystina --- Krystina looks like eating the fruit in the plate

crystal ball to find out the winning lotto number?? :-)

koala photo - found out later if you take a picture you need to give donations.

dinosaur ride

Ethan eating ice cream after a long day

cute lips:-)

to get more info click Sciencentre

Monday, June 15, 2009

Video of skating lesson

Watch the progress of their ice skating lessons.

Can you guess who's Ethan's 'girlfriend' ?

:-)

and here's Krystina.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Cake for Dad

Today is Daddy's birthday. We made him a simple but special cake.

blowing the candles -

Daddy opening his present.

hooray..

Happy birthday Dad!

Bike

Daddy helping Krystina to find her balance

Dad giving instructions how to ride a bike without training wheels.

In one of their afternoon bike rides infront of the house

Krystina with 'Jasper' (the adventurous dog)
in her bike.

Krystina bought a new Barbie bike with her own money

Biking around the house with Dad

Krystina preparing for her first ride

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Sports

Krystina’s school is offering after school sports program for extracurricular activities such as gymnastics, music and cheerleading. We are looking at joining her in a cheerleading lessons since she’s always jumping, dancing and likes tumbling around. This will develop her social and teambuilding skills.

Not to mention, wearing cheerleading uniform is really cute.

Football and soccer are very popular sports for boys. Some of Ethan’s friends have soccer & football lessons in the park every weekend and he said he want to try it too. This type of sports teaches children discipline, to be competitive and be physically active which is kids nowadays needs because of the growing number of obesity in the world.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Happy Mother's Day

Krystina's presents to Mummy.

She came to Mummy's bed around 7 am to greet me 'Happy Mother's Day' and gave me kisses and hugs. Then went back to her room to get the flowers she's been hiding in her closet and said 'I love you' and handed me the flowers.

Very sweet little girl.

Then her brother said the same thing and another hugs and kisses. Just the right present every Mum would love.

Daddy prepared a big breakfast.

At lunch time, we booked a table at Hotel HQ as they are having mother's day special offer. Mother eat for free and kids eat for free as well. Lunch supposed to cost us $116 - but only paid $50 for a 3 course menu including champagne for mum's only.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter holiday in Sydney

Home to Sydney, NSW distance =907 km, left 6am on Friday and back on Sunday night.

Drive to the Hinterlands

scenic spot on the top of the mountain

Stopping for lunch, we prepared a picnic bag

The Rocks, Sydney - queing for a Turkish bread (made of pizza type dough and filled with fetta cheese and spinach, then grilled to cook.

Turkish pizza turnover

Found this restaurant near the central station, Cafe de Macau, but still closed for lunch.

Walking from Central station to Paddy's in the City.

The night we arrived in Sydney Olympic Park, where we booked for 2 nights accommodation.

Next day, we walked to the train station about 8am going to the city.
The train is 3 levels.
We bought the day tripper pass, $17/adult and $9.20/child - we can use the ferry, bus and train
for the whole day, hop on hop off.