Happy Easter

It never rains but it pours - unfortunately for us, all of Ollie's grandparents have been residing in far flung places since he has been born, so it is not that often that he gets a chance to catch up with them. Well this past fortnight has been a grandparent bonanza with Nanna Carmel and Grandpa Rob back from Canada, Nanna Kaye & Pa visiting from New York and then a day later, Nanna Freddie from the not so glamourous Cloncurry. So as you can imagine it has been a pretty hectic time.

Not surprisingly Easter has been the big focus around here, and as you can tell from the top photo, Ollie LOVES chocolate. He has received way too much of it and has eaten a lot more than I anticipated. But thankfully it only happens once a year. Another thing we have consumed a fair few of is hot cross buns, although Ollie has given them his own name - window buns. If you've got any leftover have a look at them, they totally look like a window. I think he might be onto something.

Here is Ollie B in his easter bunny get up on his way to visit Nanna Carmel and Grandpa Rob and the rest of the family. It was here that Ollie scored one of his favourite Easter presents - a Buzz Lightyear torch. He is still completely Toy Story obsessed so this went down a treat. It goes nicely with his other new Toy Story additions, a Buzz, Woody and Jessie the cowgirl figurine that Nanna Freddy got him. He does such a great job of playing with them, making them talk and interact with each other. It is lovely to watch and they are the first things he asks for when he wakes up in the morning (except on easter sunday when he asked if the easter bunny had been).

On Easter Sunday (after going out for a delicious breakfast) we had a delightful egg hunt in the backyard with all of the eggs being found by Ollie B. At least I hope he found them all. I wonder if next time we are down there he will be ripping through my herb garden in the hope of finding another egg of two.

My boys down at the beach.

Obear has been looking at lots of stuff lately through his "binoculars", made up of his two hands. He had Pa and Nanna Kaye in stitches when they were out for a walk and wanted to find something, with Ollie offering to look for it with his "binoculars". But I think it was even funnier when Nanna Freddy offered to look for something else using her "binoculars", only to have Ollie point out that they weren't binoculars, they were just her hands!! And to confuse matters further, Nick has been letting Ollie play with some real binoculars as well. I presume it was Nick's influence that is responsible for Ollie looking through them and saying "nice bottom mummy" (also nanna, daddy, gus etc).

Here is B with his Pa having a chino - I think they look like a couple of old men just chatting away about the world.

And here is B making cupcakes with Nanna Freddy. Just in case we hadn't had enough sugar on Easter Sunday. It seemed like a good idea at the time! And this time there were no nasty incidents with the eggs going everywhere.

New trick of the week? Nick has been teaching Ollie "high five", "down low too slow". But Uncle Simon took it one step further and showed him how to make a "squid squid squid" kind of octopus motion when someone goes to high five you. Sounds pretty silly and it is - Ollie gets into all kind of hysterics when he does it to someone.