Not another one!

Looks like we have ANOTHER Masterchef in the making here! Mmmm samosa's, and he ate them happily even with NO tomoto paste in sight!!!!

Go Kidz Tri #1

At the start line...

End of the bike - Lachie loves how fast his transitions are!

After the swim, sprint to the finish line...

Followed by the Mayoral Cycle Challenge with Zara and Livvy

And such a nice surprise - winning the draw for the $100 Sportsworld voucher! Worth missing the first hour of Bradley's party for! (Not to worry, he caught the last 4 hours of the party!)

School Triathlon

Cooper got to have lunch with the big boys Lily starting her run - the tounge out helps!

Bike...hard work with such tiny wheels (and legs to match!)

Almost at the swim

Yay - 3rd place! (Out of 4 hehe)

Love how this photo makes it look like Lachie's in the lead!

Biking through the dandelions
And Eden about to start her duathlon...to get Lily's bike to the car! The Principal forgot to have a pre-schoolers race, Eden was very excited about it too!

Home for the afternoon to play while I decorated this cake...before highland class.

I reckon if shoe shops looked like this, then I'd be more inclined to buy shoes!

Park time

After a long (but great!) day shopping in Palmy, we went to the park. Lachie set up and asked for this photo! Poser #1

Poser #2

Lachie cartwheeling

And quite proud of himself!

Tryathlon Kid!

Lachie did his first Weetbix Tryathlon...getting the bike set-up in transition Racing brief and meeting the celebrities, then the warm up Trying out the All Blacks inflatable trainer

Yellow caps ready to go...the 8 year olds, Lachie was probably the youngest 8 year old (and perhaps the whitest going by this photo too - 2nd from left, sitting on the edge of the pool)The swim, Lachie's in the middle of the picture. This photos for Tracey!!!

Running to transition

First lap of the cycle, doneAlmost the end of the run leg

Heading to the finish line (there's a couple of video cameras there with footage going to be available online!)

Proud boy with his medal! He wasn't puffed, red or sweating even...had a little drink of water and didn't even feel the need to sit down for a while...like a stroll in the park ay Lachie!

A nice day off school! Although he went back afterschool for cricket!

Three local tri's, the school one/s and then he's keen to do the Palmy one!

No stopping him now!!!

Almost an expert now! And yes, I've tried, trust me - it's not easy!Bubbles...

Our BIG 8 year old!

Lachie got his presents a day early too...all the more time to practice the latest craze!

First attempt:

Then we watched some youtube clips and Lachie had some more attempts (yes, he was wearing a helmet), then more tries at the skate park...he's actually getting pretty good pretty fast!

The cake...Lachie designed this in October last year! Top layer is the All Blacks, next is the Hurricanes (new natural food colouring, so Lachie-friendly!), next layer is the Magpies, and bottom layer was meant to be Onga-Tiko rugby club but after using over half the bottle of new blue natural colouring, we decided it would be "sky" and grass instead. I bought the Lego lollies last year as Lachie had wanted a Lego cake once...they're cool! And they really fit together like Lego!

We met lots of friends at Lindsay Bush for afternoon tea...another super-hot party!

Lachie, let loose with the knife - he chose the biggest one we had!

Lolly scramble!

One of the massive spiders the kids found during the bush walk...Charlie took this photo before it saw all the kids faces and ran away to hide! Honestly massive, as least as long as my fingers!

A lovely afternoon with so many special people! Had dinner afterwards at Nannie and Grand-da's (even after so much cake, chippies and popcorn!), and then we had the cream horns that Nannie and Lachie made earlier in the day while us girls went to Amalia's party. Nannie and Grand-da gave Lachie his own cream horn molds for his birthday among other things to add to his "Masterchef" collection! (He's going to need his own kitchen soon!!) And also got him started with his own $1 coin collection.

And wearing the t-shirt that Daddy's getting all the credit for (when all he did was give it to him!) - but it's just SOOOOOOOOOO appropriate!!!! It says Lachie and 8 on the back. Happy birthday to our big 8 year old!!!

Pikelets and Waa Waa's

Lily had an ugly looking throat (she got very upset when I said she couldn't go to school) but seemed fine all day...for lunch we made the pikelets we didn't make for her red party...complete with jam and cream and a red cuppa!

Cheeeeeeese...

Waa waa...Cooper loves his waa waa's at night with me and Lachie!

Painting the town RED!

Well, thankfully not the town, and no paint on the house either!

Lily (one of our very pink girls!) wanted a RED party this year. She designed her cake, the menu, everything really! (The photos are last to first, but I'm tired so that's how they're gonna stay!)

Lily at cake time...

Deciding which part of her cake was her favourite!Craft activity...making sparkly fridge magnets to go home...

Present time...when people arrived Lily politely opened all the cards, but left a huge pile of gifts...hopefully she was able to get the girls to help her with who gave what!

Cupcakes

Happy little dude...

The RED stuff! Including "mocktails" - she can't remember where she learned about them! (I sugared the rims of the martini glasses!)

Cake...front view

Back view...

Close-up of the giraffe, rose, lippy, handbag and dancing shoes...

So much fun! Then on to round two...