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This year we travelled to Canberra and Jindabyne for our holiday. This was chosen because of Cade wanting to run in the Canberra Marathon – which he did an awesome job of!

We stayed with Hannah and John in a 3 bedroom apartment in Canberra which was pretty cool! On Saturday we went to Questacon with the Bakers and also with Nat and Matt who drove down from Sydney to join us for the day. The girls had a great time running around trying to see everything. We could have spent the whole time in the 0-6 room!!

On Sunday after the race we headed to Jindabyne for 3 nights. We went to Cooma for the day to see the Mortons (who were also in Canberra!!), drove up into the Kosciuszko National Park to see Mt Kosciuszko, went for lots of plays in parks and on some bush walks before heading back to ATown on Wednesday.

As always it was busy and crazy – but so good to get away and see some beautiful things.

Pippa will soon be 16 months old! Its such a wonderful age – they learn new things everyday, amaze you with new words and actions and of course copy everything their older siblings do!

We have been blessed with yet another beautiful girl – Pippy is such a delight to spend each day with. She is into everything – one of her “games” is see how many times she can press the dishwasher button before we get in the kitchen to get her away from it. She presses and laughs and runs! She loves to be outside, in the dirt, in the rocks, in the water, in the sand – drawing with chalk is always something she wants to do now! Her sisters love giving her rides around the yard and swinging her in the swings.

Her sisters are the most important people in her little life! Lots of games are played every day involving Pips – Alice and her have started role playing very nicely together – Pippy will grab a bag and a baby and join in on the Mums and Babys game that Alice loves to play. Her other great game that she loves is Snatch and Run – she will grab something of her sisters, show them that she has it and then run as fast as she can away from them whilst they chase her – screaming at her – whilst she just laughs at them… She never gets very far, but enjoys the chase.

Talking is another thing that she loves to do – and its always amazing to watch as they start to really communicate with you. Pointing and trying new words out, lots of animal sounds and dancing to songs. As soon as music comes on, she runs over to pick up a doll and start dancing with it – usually with Elmo, who is almost bigger than her… Provides plenty of laughs for us all.

Still no hair – although a little mullet is forming at the back of her head! Her big blue eyes are always watching everything that is going on – she doesnt miss much!

Maisie lost her first tooth during the week!

This week we had a very busy week! Maisie started school, Tally started 4/5 year old pre school and Alice started 3/4 year old pre school! (we missed getting a photo of Cece for her day as we were not well – stay tuned for next week!)

We had our wonderful friends come all the way to Albury for a big trip to see us. We visited Oddies Creek and Wodonga parks, went to Beechworth for the morning and got some honey and had lots of swims and played wonderfully together! They even got to come along to Maisies dance concert!!