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We had our first family day at the movies yesterday and decided to see Kung Fu Panda.  The boys both handled the length of the movie pretty well although Elliot did get a wee bit scared during one of the fight scenes and spent the next hour on my knee

What we should have realised of course is that for the next God-knows-how-long we would have three and five year olds terrorising each other with very dodgy martial arts moves.  Elliot gets terrified with Max pretending to punch and kick him and wails his head off.  All terrible until Max gets bored and turns his back then a three year old Bruce Lee comes bursting out and he somehow thinks that Max will be OK with a karate chop to the head…….

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Everyone here has been sick over the last week with Vic getting it the worst.  Hopefully we are all on the mend now just in time for the weekend.

The boys have been OK for a couple of days – so good that they were having some fun the other morning with some blow up guitars

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This is what Max sounds like at 5 years old

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A really cool thing has started to happen over the last week or so – Max has started to try writing words himself by sounding them out in his head and spelling them as he would say them.  It makes for some very interesting ways of spelling things but you can usually figure out what he’s trying to say.  The really hilarious thing is he’ll sit there and argue about the spelling with you absolutely sure that he is right!

He’s also started to spell simple words that he’s never seen before by getting the phonetics right.

Amazing what a term and a bit at school can do for a kid.

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This was a great weekend for football (soccer) results:

• My masters team won 1-0 for our first win of the season
• Max’s team won their “little dribblers” game 6-1. He also bought his first set of boots.
• The Phoenix won an exhibition, Chinese earthquake charity match 6-2. Vic and I took Max and Elliot along for their first Phoenix game – Max enjoyed it and Elliot was over it in about 20 minutes

Max and I also had a great bonding moment this afternoon as we sat there cleaning our boots together…..

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So even though Max didn’t take his scooter to school yesterday he still managed to get in the wars.

Boy + boy + scooter = this

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Just a quick entry to say something I had forgotten to say.

Max now has four adult teeth! Two molars came through last week and so now he has the two bottom front teeth and two completely new top molars at the back.

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Max had his first game of football (soccer) today with the little dribblers football club Unfortunately Vic and I are in Sydney but supposedly Max’s team won 4-2 and Max scored a goal! He also got a certificate for player of the day!

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