Paddling Pool Fun.....

This is how, Rob "thought" he was going to spend his afternoon, WRONG!!! hehe

(photo taken by Jaime when we were already playing in the yard with the kids...)

Jaime trying to show the kids how to use the slide into the pool... unfortunately it wasn't as good as the old pool....

Then we convinced Rob to come down and play.... so it turned from playing in the pool - to full on water fights......

Jade at least was helping other people to join in the water fight fun by filling their buckets... ehehe.....

Greg detached from Guitar Hero too and came to join in the fun.... (sporting his first sporting injury for the season too... - he got it at training.... (under his right eye))

I'm sure Greg thought he'd spent enough time being wet for the day, he'd just come home from his school's swimming carnival... he's in Parnka - they're green - you can see that his scalp is still green from the hairspray we bought him... apparently he sprayed his arms and legs and then went around spraying his friends in other houses hair... so everyone was supporting Parnka for the day..... He got 2nd in one race, and competed in a few others... He seemed to have a good day...

Jade filling Xander's bucket again...

(They always find the big heavy ones to play with... I need some 1ltr buckets for them to play with...)

Damian came over straight from work, and got drenched, complete with shoes and socks....

(we did take his mobile off him first!)

Family Shot... so cute!

Rub-a-dub-dub... three men and a Jade in the tub....

Jade and her Daddy..... (I think we'd nearly managed to wear her out by this point)

I was completely drenched too, and I'd post pics of me playing with the kids.... but really... they're NOT good..... a lot of weight as well as trying to grow my hair out - doesn't make for good blog photos.....

After the water sports fun, we went inside to get into dry clothes and bathed the kids... then had dinner... Then Jaime and I went around to Mom and Dad's place with Jade and Xander to say good bye to Gran who's heading to Brisbane today, spending a week down there, then off to Africa in a week (for a month) (confused?!?!)...

Then we came home, got the kids settled and managed to get Jade to sleep while people were upstairs playing Wii... I have no idea how I managed that so easily (only took going back into the room once because she was calling out)... We've always had to have a quiet upstairs so that we can get Jade to sleep - she was probably just too tired to fight it with us....

Jade knew that Xander was sleeping in our room, so when she got up this morning - she came running into our room going "Where's Xander?????".... and apparently when Xander woke this morning... he went to Damian and said "why did you take me home?!?!??"... kids are just too cute!!