William’s View

How Amelia Has Changed

which will include the town in the Australian Silo Art Trail.

The aim of the project is to enhance community wellbeing by boosting tourism, amenities and community engagement in Allora through the co-design and installation of a mural representing important stories of the town.

Sometimes it is hard to decide what to write about and if that happens I just write about my little sister Amelia who is sixteen months old and very, very cute. To start with, now Amelia is starting to say more words like parpie (puppy), sooz (shoes), ba ba (bird), and bwarba (brother). And Amelia can make the noises of cars, cows, trains, birds and monkeys. And also if you tell her to put something in the bin she does it so she must understand a lot.

Now that she’s 16 months old, Amelia is having a few more tantrums though. On Easter Sunday, Amelia did a special little easter egg hunt but she wanted to stop and eat the chocolate eggs before the easter egg hunt was finished. So we took her eggs away and she had a really huge tantrum by falling on the floor and kicking her legs and screaming and even when she stood up again she stamped her feet and cried.

And also on Easter Sunday we went to church and she kept being really naughty and she ran up behind Father Alan and went up in the areas where the alter is and carried on. But when Father Alan said he had some Easter eggs for the kids, Amelia went straight up to him and was a really good girl all of a sudden and so everyone in the church started laughing.

At the moment my mum is away in Sydney to get her viola fixed so my dad is looking after Jeremy and Amelia and me on his own. Yesterday dad took the three of us kids to Jamworks for afternoon tea and this was great and Amelia was really good. But last night dad was making spaghetti bolognaise and Amelia did this enormous tantrum for about an hour so me and Jeremy tried to play with her and then she vomited on the floor and broke a bowl but he didn’t get angry with Amelia. She gets naughty at the moment but my little sister is super cute and I look after her by playing and making Amelia laugh. Mum and Dad say I’m a really good big brother and I think I am too.

William Lister, age 9