Hey Everyone, Joey Kearsey here!!!….
February was pretty quiet and let me tell you we all needed it…The whole family was off the rails for a few weeks but by the end of the month we were all back to normal.. well as normal as we can be…

The Month started pretty much how Jan ended with Lily Climbing anything and everything she could find..

Lucky I was around to make sure she didn’t fall as there seems to be a lack of parental supervision in this place at times..

Dad managed to get out for a fish and the prawn run.. and although I must say he bought home the goods..
a nice clean kilo of fresh prawns..

Lily found them quite interesting but I can tell you she was no where to be found when we had to shell them..

and some nice fillets as well.. Dad cooked them up in his special cornflake crumb and they were delicious..

Mum and Dad also started the massive task of painting the outside of our place.. Mum reckons it’s needed doing for 5 years but Dad’s only got on board in the last 12mths or so..
These are the before pics..


and at this time it’s still not finished so will bring you the “after” pics when it’s all done..
However I must say.. us kids have been a big help.. Lily has got into the paint a couple of times and I quite enjoy having a little play in it myself…

But as they say.. all work and no play!!!.. so we took some time out and headed to a picnic in the park

The 24th rolled around and it was party time again.. This time is was Ma’s birthday.. So we cooked her a cake and headed around to her place for the day… Mum tried to get us together for a Photo again but none of us were really that keen to sit still.. this is the best she could come up with

but she wasn’t really happy with that so we go the paints out and did hand and foot prints on a canvas board and gave that to Ma for her birthday…

She loved it…
That night we all went out to dinner.. dinner was yummy and Aunty Jod got this awesome cake to eat…
we helped Ma blow out her candles…

The month ended with me redecorating the house!!!.. You see at Ma’s place she lets me tip powder on the floor and draw pictures in it… So I was a little board on a sunday arvo so thought.. what the heck.. I know where the powder is and I am damm good at it so might give it a whack…
So grabbed the powder from the kitchen bench.. a little spilled as the top was open..
I then thought to myself… “I need a nice quiet place to do this as I don’t want Lily getting it all over herself”… so I thought the play room would be good for that… I walked through the lounge room.. and realised I was carrying the bottle upside down.. again.. a little spilled.. nothing major… all in the name of art I say..

I then got into zone and went to work on my masterpiece.. I was going to be bigger and better then anything I had ever done before… I was doing full throttle when Dad walked in the back door and yelled at me…

He obviously doesn’t appreciate art… apparently I did something I wasn’t suppose to and Dad was a little cranky!!!.. eat to their own…
I then got upset because mum told me she had to clean the “whole thing up”..

I was hoping they would like it and it could stay that way…
Well the positive out of it is that I did learn a really good lesson..
“you can’t win them all, and if at first you don’t succeed.. try again”.. so It’s back to the drawing board for me..

Hey Everyone, Lily and Harry here…
Wok Harry… I’m first… well we seen the New Year in at Inverell as the twins were christened the next day.. Mum and Dad are Olly’s godparents and Mum too the opportunity to get the “whole family” photo that we never seem to get…

Once we got back to Newcastle we were all very tired after a huge 10 days in Inverell so we just kicked back for a week or so to recover… Harry thought it was time for me to learn how to protect myself… I do have 2 big brothers and I need to be able to hold my own…
so first he showed me how it’s done..

Then in a quick move that even Harry didn’t even see coming I flipped him and once again I was in control..

I got the boys covered no problem at all..

It was also a very exciting month for me and for Mum as well because my Hair finally got long enough to put into a pony tail…

and even more adventurous.. Mum got Pig tails as well..

It was also a big month for Gross motor skills as I learnt how to climb..

and play the piano and sing…

Ok Lily shift aside Time for me to get in…
Hey Harry here.. well santa did well this year and Bubba and I got Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtle movies so TURTLE MANIA hit our house…
First Dad made some cool costumes – he ripped the material with his very own hands and teeth… Man v’s wild style…

Then Mum modified the design with the simple “pillow as the shell” technique

Then towards the end of the month Ma bought us proper Turtle outfits and it was unreal!!!

That brings us around to Birthday time of the month.. Back to you Lily…
Thanks Harry… Well My Birthday is first and the most important because I was 1…
The day started with Pressies from Harry, Joe, Mum and Dad…

We had a little party at home and I got some really cool pressies.. I got some shakers and some cool dunlop volley’s

Mum made a nice choccie mum cake

and I ate it all…

Over to you Harry to talk about your Birthday..
Thanks Lily.. well my Birthday is 2 days’ after Lily’s but I got one of my pressies the week before..
Aunty Jod and Uncle Matt got me tickets to Oakdale farm..

So up we headed for the day… it was really cool.. we got to see all these big and baby animals and we got to feed them

Lily liked patting them.. but I think the baby goats thought they were going to eat her!!! because they were eating everything!!!

Bubba didn’t like it as much.. they scared him, they were quite aggressive the little things… especially when there was milk on offer…

so to settle down we had some lunch..

After Lunch I had a ride on the train with Aunty Jod… Bubba didn’t want to go on the train but he loved waving to me as we went around

On my actual Birthday the day started with Presents from Joe, Lily and Mum and dad

Then I went outside and had a play on the superslider.. I went really fast because Dad put detergent on the plastic and gave me a big push..

and then I had a party in the park.. I had a great time with all my mates.. we played cricket and played on the swings and on the climbing thing

and we played hide and seek

and Mum made the best green turtle cake… and it was yummy…

after all this stuff in January we needed a couple of weeks to re coup… it had been a really busy couple of months…