I think Jude would say the highlight for him of the past two weeks was having guinea pigs for a weekend. Anna’s preschool has guinea pigs and each kid gets to take them home for the weekend. While Anna enjoyed the guinea pigs, Jude was in heaven. As soon as we got home from an outing Jude would ask if he could hold one of them; sometimes he even wanted to come home from an outing specifically to see them. They were very tame and are used to little kids not so gentle touching. Both kids had such a great time that we signed up for another weekend later in the year.

The other highlight of the past fortnight was our family day at Luna Park. This is an amusement park right on Sydney Harbour and went there this past Friday. Jude is officially in kindergarten four and half days a week but by Friday he is exhausted so we are planning on taking him out of school most Fridays and the teachers are fine with that.

Anyway, Jude is a huge fan of Luna Park, in particular the Wild Mouse roller coaster. Marcy lost count of how many times they went on it but in the end she told Jude she needed a break. They take a photo of every car in one of the steep sections and we had to buy one of them – Jude looked just like this in all 15 or so rides they took.

This morning was one of the most spectacular sun rises I have seen in a long time. Jude even woke Marcy up to make sure she didn’t miss it. I took this photo from the office window.

These days Jude loves to run. He particularly likes chasing birds as we have mentioned but he also often falls behind when we are out walking because something has grabbed his attention. Today we went to the Australian Museum in the city and we walked back through a park and I snapped this photo of Jude running at full tilt.