A train whistle is very loud – as the girls found out yesterday when we took an historic steam train trip from Canberra to Bungendore. It was great fun. The trip took an hour or so, we then wandered around Bungendore looking at shops, having lunch and icecreams, and then got back on the train to go home. Great way to spend a day. The kids loved the train – walking around while it was moving (no seatbelts), going through tunnels and putting hands over their ears when the whistle blew. They were all so good too – I don’t think any of the 8 of them were naughty or misbehaving.

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Other news on the home front, our new front door is finally complete and the new laserlite is going up over the porch as I type this. It is gunna look fantastic.

Amy is trying to sit up from a lying down position. She gets up on all fours and pushes herself up high until her legs are virtually doing the splits and then she topples over backwards. Very weird, but I guess the flexibilty will come in good at the 2020 Olympics.

Jess is going to the toilet all the time now and has dry nappies in the morning. This is such a major breakthrough and Justin is over the moon at the thought of never changing one of her dirty ones again. I can vouch for the grossness of it all!

Meg is just loving preschool and made a new friend last week. She is so tired when she gets home so that must mean she is putting in all her effort while there. I’m so proud of her. I’m doing roster next Friday, so I’ll get to see first hand what is going on and how she is interacting with the other kids.

Holly is just cruising along. She lives in the moment – I never know what is going on at school or wherever she has been. She just is – now. Don’t worry about what happened before! She is learning Indonesion and today leart to say “My name is Holly”. I managed to get that much out of her at least.

Well that is about it for the wrap of ours lives over the past few days. Hope all is good where you are.