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From our day at Mooloolaba...

Photos from Australia Zoo

These are my favorites from Australia Zoo...I hope you like them too :)

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A Few Favorites

I've been going through my photos and uploading them to my Shutterfly account. I've picked a few of my favorites from the first couple of days at Beachmere.

Santa Visit

We went to visit Santa today. To be honest, I was not expecting it to go well. I've only known babies to scream when they were given to Santa for photos. However Kai was quite enchanted. It may have helped that his big brother and sister were enchanted too. They told Santa what they wanted, and were very careful to make sure he understood they'd be in Australia and needed small toys that they could bring home on the airplane. It was all very cute.

It's as Easy as...

I had to smile as I overheard this conversation between Isaac and Lizzy...

"Lizzy, that's not easy as pie to me. It's as hard as baking a cake."

Beethoven before breakfast

Lizzy has started group piano lessons at school. She's had two lessons so far, and has cottoned on pretty quickly. This morning we had a little Beethoven before breakfast. The children have to learn to play Ode to Joy (or as Lizzy wrote, "Oh to Joy") with 2 hands and after that they can pick any piece of music they like from their music books. Lizzy is currently learning the right hand...

My big brother

I took this video the other day of Isaac playing with Kai. I love how these two interact.

Research

Kai is participating in a research study at the University of Washington. He is a control subject in a sibling study on Autism. This is him wearing an electrode cap and pretending to be an alien.

He did really well, and the cap didn't bother him at all. Although he did try to chew on the chin strap numerous times.

Halloween

It is that time of year again...when all American kids hit the streets for some trick or treating. For the first time, my kids joined in. Kai didn't get dressed up, but he still came along for the ride. Isaac was Darth Vada (again) and Lizzy was a rock star.

Here they are:

This is Isaac at his school parade on Friday afternoon...

And then just before trick or treating on Saturday night...

And here is our rockstar on Friday at the school parade..

This is how the wig looked when we first got it. However it's had alot of wear over the last week and became "wilder" each time. Luckily it just helped fit the rockstar image.

We had to modify the costume slightly for Saturday night, but as you can see the wig was still a highlight...