Happy Birthday Ethan !! Our 'not so baby boy' turned 6 today and *finally* (in his eyes) got his Nintendo DSi. Already he's turned into a zombie kid that walks around with a stoop staring at the console mesmerised! Its all about 'Ben 10' at his age. If you don't know what that is, you're sooooooooo 1990s. Get with it ! 
As followers of this blog may be aware, last year we planted a few fruit trees. Since then its become a bit of a home orchard (!) with Martin now having planted mandarin, lime, orange, lemon, grapefruit, avocado, pear, apple and cherry trees ! They're all obviously small at the moment, however, the lemon tree has produced it's first crop (all 5 of them !) ready for picking. Here's a few pics with the kids fighting over who got to pick the first one!
The snow has finally arrived in the mountains (!) - so today we took a day trip up to Mt. Baw Baw which is about a 2 hour drive from our place. It's really the first time that Aidan has properly been in snow because when we went skiing a couple of years ago, he was only a few months old. We went to go sledging this time with the kids as it's a bit early for Aidan on ski's and we wanted to see what the place was like. Anyway, it turned out to be a good place for the kids to learn to ski so we'll be back. They both loved the sledging and snow ball fights so hopefully they'll sleep well tonight! You can see a few pics here.
