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While Vic and I were in Sydney a few weeks ago and on a harbour cruise one of my colleagues was wandering around taking photos. He then put them up on a server and I spotted this one of Vic.

I reckon it’s one of the most natural and beautiful shots I’ve ever seen of her…..

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.

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…..