Scenic pictures

So, I finally took my camera with me on my morning run, which made it hard to run but here are some pictures! This is the path right outside our apartment. The trees growing out of the water are called mangroves and the little boats leaning on the mangroves are what the locals use to row out to their boats sitting in the middle of the water. On the other side of the path (not the water) is the golf course, Enjoy!

Fun in the SUN

Today is HOT, and since everyone else still has a month of school we have the pool all to ourselves. I am so glad Olivia likes to swim, that Mary sits on the steps and won't get wet and that I have time to paddle around with Thomas in his little flotation device, three kids can't get much easier!

Rice Cereal

Thomas is officially 4 months old and had his first taste of Rice Cereal... I will let the pictures say the rest! Olivia took these pictures, since I was feeding him. Yes, he is sitting in his stroller, our high chair is with all our furniture in the middle of the ocean, so the stroller will have to do until we get our stuff!

Thomas found his hands...feet...and can roll over!

This week Thomas found his hands! He can grab things very well after just a few days of making this discovery. At first he would grab my nose when I would feed him. Now he can grab his toes and LOVES to eat them!

Even more exciting was this morning, Thomas rolled over! Here are some pictures of the event! He did it twice in a row and then started to cry when we put him on his tummy the third time (when we had the video camera ready).

Halloween

Halloween

Well, since we are a day ahead of the USA Halloween has come and gone. For the record Halloween is celebrated even less than in England (last year Olivia & I went to the Oxford Ballet Halloween night), but there was Halloween candy at the stores.

This year, there was no candy in the stores, no costumes (these princess dresses were b-day gifts (dress-up) from the Swinton grandparents), but there were pumpkins with directions on "how to carve a pumpkin" at the stores. Most people don't know how to carve a pumpkin (not to mention pumpkins are NOT seasonal since we are going into spring here). Trick or treating is a mystery--One US friend over here had a meeting with all her neighbors and tried to explain trick or treating. Questions afterward were "what do we give them at the door?" "can I give them a game if I don't have any candy?" etc...

Olivia & Mary, were the only kids dressed up all day and while we went to catch a train to attend a Halloween party everyone on the streets was pointing at them. I told the girls to respond by saying "Happy Halloween" but that only got the response of "what is that?" or "You know we don't celebrate that holiday in Australia!"