Olivia

OK, so now the title ‘6 going on 16′ doesn’t really work so I’ve updated the title to simply Olivia.

I’m going to upload a vid (hopefully) shortly taken on her birthday, which went well.

Not sure why some of these allow a thumbnail and some don’t, you’ll have to click on the title links to see some of them, click on the thumbnail to see a bigger version

girl with flowers

lion

Dad (Doug)

The weather has been mixed so we’ve been looking for things for the kids to do that doesn’t revolve around swimming in the river. Yesterday we went to a ‘tree climbing’ park where they have cables running from tree to tree and the kids (and adults) have to make their way around a course whilst attached by a harness. There were course of varying difficulty – all the kids did the fist course but Gabriel, as the oldest, had been given a ticket for the next course up. Olivia was giving me a hard time because she also wanted to do it but when it came to doing it he couldn’t get past the first hurdle as he just wasn’t tall enough, so that settled that.

Olivia liked her new bike so much we had to go out for a ride straight away, despite (or maybe because) it was already dinner and bed time. We went scrambling down overgrown paths until I got a puncture and had to whiz home before it became completely flat. So that was good

Olivia’s bike is WAY too small and meanwhile Gabe’s old bike would be perfect for her – except that it’s blue and not pink. Gabe’s bike is a good one and being loathe to shell out for a new bike when we have a perfectly good one already, I stripped it down, painted it pink and today managed to put it back together again

It looks pretty good, I hope she likes it. She’s seen it ‘in progress’ but is at the pool and still hasn’t seen the finished product. Fingers crossed.

Thanks to James & Rach for the piccie