Happy Queen's day!

choo choo

Travis loves playing trains.

This photo, with Opa, was taken about a month ago.

This photo was taken last week, with Granny and Grandpa.

Easter eggs

Dylan and Travis painted Easter eggs with Granny. They also made plastic icing chicks and stuck them into broken easter eggs to look like they were hatching! It was fun watching them and reminded me of when Pam and I were younger and used to make them too!

look at my ducky! (it's a chick...)                                my chick is hatching!

serious concentration

a dinosaur

the end result

Easter egg hunt!

maybe there are more in here?

mmmm, nothing like chocolate eggs for breakfast

want some?

Easter breakfast, with eggs, of course!

 

and finally, eating the self-made eggs!

yummmm!

"Eggggggyyyyyyyyyy"

what a mucky mess

hold tight

more playground photos

A lot of last weekend (with Benny) was spent in the playground. Not the big ones that the boys spend a lot of time at during the week, and not just our usual playground-across-the-road. We decided to visit a few of the smaller playgrounds we don't normally stop at. The boys are real little monkeys!

This boat jungle gym is outside the Maritime Museum.

This one is on a tiny patch of grass behind the metro!?

 This one is hidden behind Dylan's Judo hall!

Judo competition

On Saturday morning we finally got to watch Dylan doing some Judo. He has been going to Judo for nearly a year and on Saturday morning they had the annual club competition. dylan's first competition. They divided the children up, by age and weight, into small groups. At the end, everyone won a prize.  

Here they are waiting for the last of the competitors to arrive

The aim is to get your opponent on to the floor. If you get them down on to their bums its called a Yuko, on to their sides it's a Wazari and on to their backs, an Ippon. If you score 5 Yuko's and your opponent scores 1 Wazari then he has won because that is the higher scoring move. An Ippon ends the match and means you have won.

Here is Dylan getting ready for one of his rounds.

engage

 wazari

 Dylan won 2 and lost 2. They counted up all the points and because he had managed to score a lot he  ended up 1st! Here he is getting his trophy!

The happy champion!

We were very impressed with how much he has learned and how well he can Judo. He is especially enjoying it now that a couple of his school friends have joined him and i think he will continue for a while longer... at least until he gets to start football!