December 2012

The start of December saw us head down to Sydney 

to spend some time with Granny and Grandpapa 

before they went home to Perth.

Oliver and Freya (and Miffy and Teddy)

 in their camping out bed at Uncle Melville's

Oliver has been obsessed with lawn mowing 

and whipper snippering for some time.

He has a selection of items ranging from his 

scooted to a dried banksia pod that he 

pretends to mow and whipper snip with.  

Essential to the role play is a selection of hats that he commandeers into his imaginative play.

Oliver was so excited to find a toy lawn-mower at his cousins house - 

he was set for the weekend! A stray cricket bat became the complementary whippersnipper.  Uncle Melville's lawn was looking fabulous by time we left.

As you can see Oliver is modelling a selection of hats!

We took the opportunity of a lovely sunny weekend to take some photographs of Oliver and Freya with their grandparents...love the fact the children look so happy with granny in the above photograph!

Three generations of da Cruz women - 

and Freya is all da Cruz!  

Her theme song according to Daddy is
Destiny's Child Independent Woman!!! 

Thank you granny and grandpapa for a lovely few weeks,

we miss you already!

Whilst in Sydney we squeezed in an early morning adventure to see the Christmas windows at David Jones in Elizabeth Street.

Oliver and Freya were not so sure about the windows - 

but thought the bin truck that rumbled past and
collected the very very very wiffy bins were just brilliant!

Freya was madly waving and Oliver was jumping up and down!

So much for the Christmas windows.