Whitbourn family

Alice is now 6.5 months old – time flys when you are having fun!

She is crawling all round the place in a kind of half crawl half push off way. Its kind of like a catterpiller crawl. She is starting to move quite quickly, esp when there are cords, computers, phones or remote controls on the floor!

She sits up nicely and loves sitting in the high chair to eat with the whole family. Today we had her outside in her walker chair and she was pushing it around all over the place.

Alice has just had her first holiday to meet her friends Ellie and Anna in Port Macquarie, the two of us flew up there together for a weekend away. She was awesome on all four flights but has now come down with a ear infection so the last few days she has been very sick, and has kicked Cade out of our bed so that she can spread herself out next to her Mamma.

She is a beautiful little girl, such a joy to be around - a huge blessing from God.

Maisie opening her birthday present.

Alice enjoying the wrapping paper.

Our 3 smiling bunnies.

Maisie and her birthday cake.

Tali and Uncle Lukey.

Alice hanging around in a shopping bag.

Maisie and Uncle Lukey on the ‘clickety clack thing’ at Fredricks Park.

Tali wearing Maisie’s pretty clip-on earrings.

The siblings.

Alice on the crawl.

Well, we have finally fixed whatever the problem was and now can get on with updating the website.

A lot of things have happened in the past month and I’ll get some photos up soon - but the most exciting thing has been Miss Maisies 3rd birthday. We had a lovely day last friday celebrating and then had a fun time at the park with her “yellow” party on saturday afternoon, although it was freezing cold. 

 Talia has become very good at singing the happy birthday song, and has had lots of practice with Naa, Matilda,  Aunties Hannah & Kate, and Maisie all having birthdays within a couple of weeks.

Alice and I are off to Port Macquarie on Wednesday to catch up with the Mortons for a few days, a holiday that I have been getting excited about for a while now, so the photos will have to wait until I get back!

I love sundays – church, lunch, family time – its all good. Here are some photos from our afternoon play times. Maisie took the photo of Cade and I. Alice is absent due to being in bed asleep whilst we had the camera out!

Talia Mersey Whitbourn

Maisie Elizabeth Whitbourn

Talia, Lisa, Maisie

Lisa & Cade (taken by Miss Moo)

Maisie pushing Tally and Alice on the swings

Tally enjoying the sunshine and swings

Alice having a giggle at her sisters

Tally and Maisie and their silly faces

Maisie and Tally in the sandpit

Alice enjoying a biscuit

Alice enjoying a swim in the bath

Tally and Maisie and their duplo castle game

Well, we have moved out of our rental house and we are living with Jill, Phil & Jacqua which the girls just think is great – they squeal with delight every morning when they hear Poppy Phil getting ready for work!

Maisie will be 3 soon – or 3 year as she says. At this stage she wants a yellow party so we will see how we go with that. She is growing up so quickly and is constantly singing and dancing and jumping all over the place. Like most kids her age she loves to read books, at bed time she likes us to read to her and then she likes to read it back to us which draws out the bed time, but it is fun to hear her explain the story back to you. Her favourite game at the moment is playing duplo. There is a huge box from when Lisa and her siblings were growing up here and Maisie is enjoying exploring her creative play. She loves to talk on the phone and is always wanting to call people to chat.

So, if Maisie is turning 3 soon, it means that Tally will be turning 2! The last few weeks have seen Tally develop her speech a lot more and she loves it when she explains something and we get what she is explaining – a huge grin and a “huhuh” usually means that we have got it correct. She is putting more and more words together every day – sentances that we have been gettng for a while now are ” I did it” “I want it” “read this one”. She is very set in her ways and likes things to be done a certain way and has a very short temper – she has to strap herself into her chair at the table – look out if you try and do it for her… She loves to jump on the trampoline and also to copy almost everything that her older sister does. She is still an eating machine – her favourite foods are cheese and biscuits of any kind.

Alice is 5 months now and a rolling machine. We put her down on her back on the floor and she starts rolling all over the place. She spins herself right around and has been inching her way forward to get to things. She is very close to sitting and loves to stand up and jump around in the jolly jumper. She has started eating rice cereal which has seen an improvement in her tummy troubles. She enjoys being outside with the girls and loves Maisie to swing her in the swing – it usually brings a fit of giggles to everyone. The girls all have their evening baths together which Alice just loves.

So, we will be living here for a bit until we sort out the Wagga house and then we will figure it out from there. We are enjoying exploring Albury again and it still feels like we are brand new – but we have been here for over 6 months now!

We met up with some friends from Wagga on Saturday morning and enjoyed a few hours at OZ.e.Wildlife Sanctuary.

This is our new sling that the wonderful Sandra got for us – its so awesome! This is Alice and I home just after a walk tonight.

Alice having a jolly jump

Maisie at the dinner table

Tally at the dinner table

Afternoon tea time

Its getting cold here!

Alice rolled over tonight from her back to her belly!

It was very exciting for me. Not so much for other people…