May Playground Pics

We spend a fair amount of time at playgrounds, Natalia of course just loves them as do all children. Here are an assortment of pics for the family........

bbbzzzzzzz all static

1 2 3 ........

playing shopkeeper

Barney's turn to swing

wwwweeeeee

Barney found face down in suspicious circumstances

South Australia


Tragedy struck today when Barney the Dinosaur was found lying face down in a park in South Australia earlier today. At the time of print, Barney’s condition was still unknown but believed to be serious.

Foul play has not been ruled out and police are currently investigating. Eye witnesses who are currently in protective custody said that they saw an unknown girl playing with Barney in the park. Apparently an argument broke out and Barney was seen falling from the top of the jungle gym. In an exclusive blog post we have managed to bring you some dramatic scenes from the park.

We are appealing to anyone with information to come forward.

Playing in the park
 

All seems fine

Up we go !

What are you thinking ?!

AGGHHH

AAAGGGHHH !!

THUMP !!

Trying to flee the scence of the crime

Mother's Day

I woke up to a lovely Mother's Day yesterday. Kim and Natalia let me sleep in and we all had a nice breakfast together. And then there were a beautiful card and flowers waiting for me. Later in the day we went for a walk into the city through the parks. Kim bought me a bicycle so we can start getting fit and healthy.......can't wait xxx

My gorgeous flowers

And card that Kim and Natalia signed

Daddy and daughter walking hand in hand

My brand new bike

Hahndorf Farm Barn

Because of all the sadness after Granny left on Thursday I decided to do something fun with Natalia on Friday. I heard there was a kiddies farm outside Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills so I found it on the internet. They have tours at 11am in the mornings so I made sure we were there in time. There were lambs, cows, guinea pigs, sheep and a llama inside the barn. The kids were allowed to stroke the animals and get really close to them, Natalia loved the lambs in particular. then after spending some time inside the barn we all went outside. There were a number of deer, a couple of ponies and large birds which the kids got to feed carrots to, and then some kangaroos in a seperate enclosure which ate some pellets. Natalia got really involved and I was so happy to see her happy again........ But before we left she wanted to join another group of mommies and kids that were having a picnic and she couldn't understand why we weren't a part their group, so little miss unhappy returned unfortunately.

Too cute

Chop, roast and stew.......

eeeeee aaaaaaaawwww

Hey, you dropped your carrot

Here boy, follow me

num num num num

Our First Easter & Long Weekend In Australia

So it was great to find out that the 26 April was also a holiday and that meant that we would have Kim around for an extra day which meant another family day together! We woke up on Easter Sunday to an 'egg hunt' in our new apartment, thanks to daddy organising it. The rest of the day was spent out and about, taking Natalia to one of the many play areas in and around Adelaide's gardens and parks.

Helping Granny hang the washing

The new chair that daddy bought me

The following day we decided to head into the Adelaide Hills to a town called Hahndorf, an old German settlement. I was lovely to see how they had decorated everything for Easter. After walking around for a couple of hours we decided to have lunch. We found a genuine German pub hotel. We were lucky to get seats as its a popular place and the portions are huge!

I am way to cool people

An Easter wall

mmm, what should I have ?

Dip it and eat it, yum

The meal that my Mom and Kim share for 2

On the 26th we decided to head down the coast to a town called Glenelg, not too far out of Adelaide.



Oh, the best sleep !!!



Finally our last day (and the last day of the long weekend) was finished off with a walk into the city to Rundle Street. It was a great start to what is going to be our new home.

Rundle Street Mall - a pedestrian zone

yummy ice-cream face :)

Hello South Australia

After a teary farewell at the airport with my sister Loren, aunty Sheri and my father, Natalia and I were lucky to have my Mom accompany us to Australia. If you know what toddlers are like, then you will understand why I was not keen to do the trip on my own. Toddlers can be wicked little people, and besides we had too much luggage and I would never have managed it on my own. Since we were immigrating we were allowed 40kg each which equals 2 bags each and I had to bring with Natalia's car seat and pram - so my Mom was much needed!

We left Joburg on the 22 April at 6pm and arrived in Sydney the following afternoon at 2pm - a 12 hour flight. Natalia was dead tired as she didn't have her nap that afternoon so she fell asleep almost immediately on the flight, but she was very restless and unhappy so I gave her meds to assist her to sleep. She didn't even get to eat dinner, shame - but bliss for us :)

Arriving in Sydney we had to get off the plane carrying 6 bags of hand luggage. Natalia walked most of the way which was impressive, but she got tired and I had to carry her a bit. You see, in Australia, you only get your pram from over-sized baggage at the same time you get your bags. We finally got through Immigrations and waited to collect our bags and over-sized luggage. Because we had 2 trolleys each to push with 4 big bags, a car seat and a pram, it was impossible, so my Mom put the car seat on her trolley and I put Natalia straddled on top of the bags on my trolley with the pram folded and balancing behind her (can you picture this?). Our next process was to go through Declarations as we had a lot of medication with us and Easter eggs and chocolates. That was surprisingly quick as well and then we were off to check our bags in for our next flight at the domestic terminal. Natalia was enjoying the trolley ride so much and refused to get off, shame, lol. By this time Mom was so pooped and no more strength in her - she's not used to lugging heavy around, walking forever and carrying heavy Natalia around. We waited only a couple of minutes when the bus arrived to transfer us to the domestic terminal and once there we had to walk again, to the end of the building of course, carrying all this heavy stuff and princess around. Poor Granny was tired.

Finally we left Sydney at 4.30pm and arrived in Adelaide at 6pm - a 2 hour flight (yes there is a time difference). Only then did I start telling Natalia that she would see her Daddy soon. It had been 4 weeks since she'd last seen Kim and I didn't want to confuse her. Little people don't understand time, and when Kim left SA she wasn't dealing with all these changes very well and she was couldn't understand why her Daddy wasn't around anymore. She had another nap on this flight with Granny and then I explained to her that she was going to see her Daddy any minute, trying to get her excited. It worked, she was so happy to see Daddy.

It was a long trip and we were finally where we were meant to be - together as a family again.

On the plane in Joburg before take-off

Landing in Adelaide

Yay - finally Tali is with her Daddy



Finally at our apartment, our new temporary home