March+-+now+I+am+four

Happy happy birthday to Esther, a big four year old now! She has had a pretty great month. Settling further into pre-school, making some more friends - Ella, Elena-Grace and Olivia, and has drawn some pictures for us and Judith. She described her family in a painting as Mummy and Daddy and Judith, and Judith is crying because she cries all the time (lol). We had a family outing to the Canberra Show which was very successful - Esther had a pony ride and even patted the pony, we watched cow judging and sheep judging, then stopped to watch the cowboys (wood choppers) do their thing. Then it was a wander down to climb on the fire engine, watch some fast rally cars and meet up with some friends. Finished the day off with a massive novelty drink (mummy made them put cordial in it rather than slushee!). But all of this was merely pre-cursor to the big event this year, Esther's fourth birthday! On her actual birthday Jules was able to stay home too and we were looking forward to a nice outing - except home girl just wanted to stay home and ride her new bike. So we did. She asked for a pirate party this year - six friends came and we had pirate dress ups, making pirate flags, walk the plank and cannonballs and a treasure hunt (she continues to lug the treasure box around with her two days later).


 * [[image:Est March hug.JPG]] || [[image:Est March pirate map.JPG width="641" height="482"]] ||
 * [[image:Est March horse.JPG]] || [[image:Est march horse 2.JPG]] ||
 * [[image:Est March ice cream face.JPG]] || [[image:Est March fire 2.JPG caption="Esther Fire Officer"]] ||
 * [[image:Est march charlotte.JPG caption="meeting baby Charlotte"]] || [[image:Est March cake mixer.JPG caption="making cakes to take to Rainbow"]] ||
 * [[image:Est March bike.JPG caption="Happy on her new bike"]] || [[image:Est March sisters.JPG caption="sisters!"]] ||
 * [[image:Est March plank.JPG caption="waiting to walk the plank at pirate party"]] || [[image:Est March cannonball.JPG caption="throwing her cannonball"]] ||
 * [[image:Est march pirates.JPG caption="Arrgh with Ella and Ivy"]] || [[image:Est march map.JPG caption="making the treasure map"]] ||
 * [[image:Est march hunt.JPG]] || [[image:Est March cake 2.JPG]] ||
 * [[image:Jindabyne 2016 - 14.jpg width="640" height="425"]] || [[image:Jindabyne 2016 - 17.jpg width="640" height="425"]] ||
 * [[image:Jindabyne 2016 - 41.jpg width="640" height="425" caption="Easter Egg hunting, rock climbing and even tree branch bouncing at Jindabyne "]] || [[image:Jindabyne 2016 - 25.jpg width="640" height="957"]] ||