Where is Reegan?

You can find Reegan in the most unexpected places...sometimes its quite difficult to to find him...

He is happy playing and exploring by himself sometimes, but his sister is still his best pal. He is terribly excited when Big Sister plays with him.

His all-time favourite game: Hide n Seek

Meanwhile, Meredith had a short orientation this morning to reacquaint herself with her teacher and classroom before the real school tomorrow...We hope she'll like school and enjoy learning here...

The teacher is all ready for the new year... the pencils are sharpened...

the tubs are labelled...


The teacher even had a wall of pictures of the kids taken during the first orientation...



with pictures the kids drew...Meredith's the biggest one outlined in yellow right in the middle...


I would have done that for my class...but where is that thing called motivation?

2 more days to school

It's two more days before Meredith goes to school. We decided to take her out instead of getting her to shop and pack with us. We went to the Botanic Garden.

As usual, the cockatoos woke me up early in the morning. Might as well... I started to make sandwiches and prepare Reegan's lunch for our little picnic.

We had to go to the Children's Garden. It's actually quite fun. They had miniature 'dense forest', some rocks and little hill for kids to climb, a little tunnel....etc But I think they can try to expand it. It's too small and you get over with everything in a while.

We managed to get a real good spot under a shady tree by the lake which we shared with a nice Polish couple. They reminded us how important it is to provide our children knowledge.

We were enjoying our little picnic...but of course we couldn't beat the locals who have their wine and cutlery and pillows. But it was still nice. We chatted and Meredith ran around after the birds....until a group of people from a particular country came to our spot. The sort where ladies dress in this particular way...


....umbrellas, 'hip' sunglasses, high heels for the park... They started to take lots of pictures and made several pose (gosh! what are they doing??) for that. They spoke loudly and polluted the peace...sigh...

We tried to put Reegan down on the ground. He was at first afraid and would not put his hand on the grass...



But he soon got used to the new texture.

Almost done...just a bit more

We are almost done setting up the house. We are so happy. That means we can go around a bit before Daddy leaves again and before Meredith goes to school next week!!

We took a break from all the business and went to Tai Pan for yum cha on my birthday. The food was great great great! No disappointment! True authentic and generous servings! Yum! It was so good we had to take away some to eat at home...I also just realized that here, we need to pack takeaways ourselves...and so we did...


Meredith made little books for my birthday. The books are about our family. She talked a little about each one in the family. She also bought a bunch of gerberas for me at the supermarket. She's wanting to do this since Reegan was born...Now she finally did...flowers for Mum!


Reegan is doing great! He is getting a little more greedy and wants to try everything we are having. He would 'bounce' happily whenever we agree to let him have a bite. And he thinks its so cool...eating what the grown-ups are eating.


And this is what he does sometimes when we leave him alone for a while to do some unpacking...


This one is funny...he climbed up the suitcase and didn't know how to get down!
We are almost done though. The apartment is looking good! We went to get sofas today. This weekend, all the clearance sales ends. We are happy we got what we wanted. I think we still have to get a bed for Meredith and that should be it. She wants a bed loft...the sort where she can sleep on top and below, there's space for her to work or put her toys. There are some really good looking ones here...but we are on a budget. Let's see what we can get!

It's been busy

And so we arrived...some 3 weeks ago...nearly...and this is the amount of luggage we had...just me and the kids first.


So Mummy tried to clean up as much as possible before the shipment arrive ...Reegan had fun with the empty spaces...



Sometimes we take a break from all the cleaning and unpacking and decided to relax at the park. We are at Albert Lake Park, a nice one by the lake.



While Meredith did all the climbing and sliding and swinging, Reegan is just happy to stay by Mummy.

New Year

It's incredible how time flies! I spent the beginning of last year in great anticipation of my new arrival, and it has been such great joy looking after him. This new year, in a new place, would be a whole new experience. I am not extremely excited, but am happy we are finally going. There would be lots to do as we (hopefully not just me alone...!) try to get settled down.

My dreams for the new year...well, I try to keep my dreams small...

*I hope the children and every one in the family and friends be happy and healthy
*I hope Daddy will have more time with us, especially the children, not just physically with us but mentally and spiritually...
*I want to spend more time taking care of myself...I am getting old!!
*Continue to have lotsa fun with the kids!

Happy New Year one and all! And may your dreams come true/ through!?!