HAPPY EASTER

Chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs... YUM! AND a five day weekend?!

I LOVE EASTER IN AUSTRALIA!

For Easter, Justice seems to have found a much desired Nintendo DS XL...

we haven't really seen him since...

He currently has one game - Lego Indian Jones 2.

(Another, Spyro: The New Beginning will be waiting in the PO box after the holiday weekend.)

He is so excited, as I swore I would never condone such an expensive little game console,

but the fruits of ebay and an Easter drive up to Toowoomba this year finally changed my tune.

So, Justice has a DS and is VERY open to any Lego DS games you might be looking to offload...

We have been taking the Easter weekend very easy, with Friday off,

Saturday full of hot cross buns but only two wholesale customers open,

Sunday a trip to Toowoomba, and today just hanging around home

Justice and I started our home unit on Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery today.

I was shocked when Tara told me that she had never read it! Please comment so I know if anyone else has/ has not. When I ordered the series from bookdepository.com (great prices and FREE WORLDWIDE delivery!) I saw that Brett Helquist had illustrated one of the Bunnicula subseries. I wonder, does this mean Melissa has read it ?!

I ordered the whole series from bookdepository, and then I added the Indian in the Cupboard trilogy, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwieler, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, How to Eat Fried Worms, Dear Mr. Henshaw and Bridge to Terabithia.

I am so excited for Justice to read all of these favourites of mine, I keep forgetting to leave time for HIS favourites... he is VERY into Roald Dahl... but I have not bought any of those.

We're a library family overall...

I AM taking him to see the play of The BFG on May 7th at the Brisbane Arts Theatre(rescheduled from Thursday because I was stuck with too much homework)...

It will make for a lovely start to Mother's Day weekend...

HAPPY EASTER

Scientificate...

My little one wanted to figure out when the largest shadows are cast...

He had a tape measure, a recording pad, a stick, a timer and a hypothesis...

At two hour intervals the length of the shadow was recorded...

he just has to write it all up in his science book...

for home, just because...

Is anyone else wondering if he is really only seven?

CROSS COUNTRY - second time's a charm...

Well, since it didn't rain today, the school was able to hold the rescheduled cross country event...

Can you figure out which house we're in? (I'll give you a hint, it starts with grr....)

GRRRR.... EEN!

CARB LOADING

We were lucky enough to catch up with Sharona and her little one for dinner tonight. We went out for pasta dinner so Justice could carbo load - tomorrow is his cross country day at school!

ORANGE SUNDAY

GO THE ROAR!

Justice and I were lucky enough to make it to the A-League Grand Final

where (our team) the Brisbane Roar faced off for the final title and trophy.

WHAT A GAME. The two that we attended this year ended in tied scores. So when the 90 minute game ended in a nil all score today, I turned to the kid sitting next to me to confirm that since it was a championship game someone HAD to actually win.

In the first extra inning 15 minute half CCM scored two goals. By the last three minutes of the second fifteen minute extra inning, we still had not scored. People left to beat the crowd... And then we scored! Even better, in the final minute we scored with a head bump and tied everything back up! FINAL MINUTE... Whew!

In a penalty shoot out the Brisbane Roar crushed the Central Coast Mariners 4 to 2.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS....

This is amazing, as last year the Roar finished second from last in the league.

I have some fears that this has given Justice unrealistic expectations as this is the first year we have followed any professional sports team closely, and the results were rather amazing. Having said that, BEST FINALS GAME I have ever been to!

WICKED

WE HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME!

I head back to uni soon, and Justice has been back at school a few weeks, but before things get really crazy busy we snuck in an afternoon of fun. I pulled Justice out of school early today and we headed off to QPAC to see a matinee of WICKED.

It was absolutely wonderful and I am so thrilled that we made this happen!

We definitely enjoyed ourselves -

and a set which includes a giant dragon never hurt with this little boy!

What an absolute delight!

YEAR THREE

Justice shot up a few inches this summer and just seems really big!

WHOO HOO, Year THREE!

We have some mild apprehension this year, as our little man is in the top portion of a composite class. The extension he recieved last year will not be naturally present like it was, but the school does not have a Year 3/4, so here we go with Year 3 in a Year 2/3 classroom. I have reservations, but fingers are crossed!