Babies babies babies.........

Sylar Ares Stock, just starting to smile

Paije Alexandrea Klein, dressed in her bear outfit!

Libbee and Super Poppa with Paije

Make the paparazzi go away!
 

Our only picture of Paije-daddy, Wade, and Libbee together

Proud father Chris with Sylar

The beautiful Brittney, partner to Chris and great mother to Sylar

Brittney with Sylar, Libbee with Paije, Super-Nanna and Nanna

All the cousins, Brittney, Chris, Hannah, Libbee and Kelli

Four generations, Mackay, September 2014

Sylar knows a secret but isn't sharing!

Nanna Ingrid with Sylar and Super-Aunty Katrina with Paije

Sylar at bathtime

Super-Poppa and Super-Nanna with a very new Sylar

Smiles of delight and relief all round after Paije's birth

A job well done Libbee

Nanna Ingrid and Paije in hospital

Well, here we are just about to leave Mackay, however reluctantly, after the birth of our first two great-grandchildren, Sylar (b. 9th July, 2014) and Paije (b. 12th August 2014).

We've been granted temporary refugee status by Mackay for the last 6 weeks, having hot-footed it across Queensland to be here for the early weeks of the first two babies of the next generation.  Thanks to a house-sitting stint for cousins Iris and John at their home at Slade Point, we've been able to make the most of our time here, with lots of visits, cuddles and photographs to remember over the next few months.

Katrina, Kelli and Hannah visited from Brisbane 2 weeks ago as well so we managed to update our photos, and herd everyone together for the "4 generations" photo (though the term "herding cats" comes to mind!)

It's gratifying to see everyone getting on with their lives and even in the time we've been here, to see the babies grow and change, and start to respond to those around them.  Think we'll get to know the 1000 kilometres of the Pacific Highway between Brisbane and Mackay pretty well over the next few years - photos just don't cut it!

So, we're on the road again and heading south.  It's high summer here already so we may stop at a beach along the way and dawdle our way back to Brisbane, or we may decide to rush on and keep on going to Sydney to catch up with the family there (and another new baby to admire, a son Duke, to great-niece Nikki and husband Matt).  Whatever we do, we're into the home run now and will be back in Ormiston Springs on 1st December.

We really look forward to getting home and being able to once again eat fresh produce from our own garden, but will also miss life on the road.

There's probably one more blog to be done - a retrospective on the last year and a bit.  That one will require deep thought.

Thanks for reading, and commenting.  It's been lots of fun choosing photos and writing about all the wonderful places we've been, but I promise just one more - some time in the future!