Tennis & Treasure

String Bean was invited to a Tennis and Treasure birthday party for her friend Holly. So we went for a leisurely drive out to the countryside, Murrumbatemen to be precise. After getting over my slight *cough cough* house envy and over my major garden envy I was able to cruise around and enjoy my surroundings and company.



Mitchell, String Bean, Lewis & Nelson.

Everything was just so unbelievably gorgeous. Perfectly maintained gardens, all clipped, flowering....no weeds in sight. Ahhh. Maybe one day.

The kids had a fantastic time searching for treasure. Playing tennis. Eating sausages. What a wonderful idea for a birthday party. Even the drive didn't seem like a drag......novelty factor I'm sure.

Airport Open Day

We ventured out to the Airport Open Day on Sunday and had a great time. We decided to get there as early as possible to avoid the crowds. We got there at 8.45am for a 9.30 start. It was great we got a park in the first row. Got the kids faces painted without having to line up.



A lion, tiger and puppy (String Bean is always a puppy).



We then made it onto the RAAF hot air balloon for a quick ride. We ended up being one of the last groups to go up as the wind picked up quite suddenly and it ceased to be safe to continue. The kids were freaking out big time but they all went up in the end. They hated the noise and spent most of the time peering out the little view holes in the balloon's basket. Lucky I didn't book a balloon flight for the family this year. Will have to rethink when we are going to do this and possibly leave it for another good couple of years.




We then went over to look at the planes. The kids to got to look into a Cicada and a Cessna. We then lined up to go onto a Qantas plane. Fuzzy Wuzzy was so concerned after the balloon ride that he said: "But were not going to go flying up, are we?" I guess he really freaked out because the engines were on, running the lights and the air conditioning. So it did sound like it could actually take off at any moment. Poor Fuzzy.

Pyjama Day/Crazy Hat Day

String Bean had a full on day today. From some insane reason school made it Pyjama Day (fund raiser to purchase goods for the school Fete). The ELC always staff and provide for the healthy food stall. Treats on offer will include: corn on the cob and chocolate dipped strawberries. The later sell faster than you can say 'chocolate dipped strawberries!'

It was also Crazy Hat day. The kids had to design or wear a crazy hat. We totally ran out of time, so String Bean got to wear her funky cowboy hat instead. At least we remembered to do both things and pack the $2 donation...phew. I am not looking forward to all three kidlets being at school, all doing readers, sports etc......argh.....breath......sigh.




















In addition to all that. It was also one of String Bean's friends birthday parties. So for the first (and possibly last time) she went ice skating. Unfortunately she didn't really enjoy it all that much. She spent the whole time clinging to the edge. She went round 3 times and then that was it! She just waited around for the hot chips and birthday cake! She isn't a natural, oh well, at least she did try.

Potting up

Well it would seem that Fuzzy Wuzzy has a green thumb. At school on Thursday the children had the opportunity to pot up some plants. Fuzzy potted up 6 pots! A mixture of flowers and some vegetables and herbs too. "I planted parsley Mummy!"











He is so proud of his plants and is watering them regularly. Last night he had to check on then 6 times before finally going to sleep.

Not a bunch of Sunflowers...

Husband Deluxe realised I needed a pick me up and decided to get me a new pair of sneakers. They are super comfy and fuchsia pink scored lots of points! Love them. Esp. as my old sneakers were giving me blisters. So no excuses for not going to the gym regularly now.

Picnic in the Park

Here is String Bean having a lovely day out at the Girl Guides: Picnic In The Park. The picnic was held in Goulburn and had a theme of All Thing Magical.

They all had a fantastic day. Some of the activities String Bean did included: temporary tattoos, making grassy heads, face painting, jumping castle, a magic show, bubble blowing, biscuit decorating etc etc.

The girls got to go around in small groups and choose which ever activity they wanted to do. I think the Face Painting was very popular. Argh that was me and one of our Junior leaders: Quokka/Emily. Oh well. I sure did get good at doing love hearts, butterflies, princess crowns, shooting stars and rainbows by the end of the day!

Big Boy Bed

Well after months of pretending to sleep in his older siblings beds, we decided it was time to introduce a 'big boy bed'. This is a real turning point for us. Three children and we have never had need to pack down the cot. I guess it is a time of moving onto bigger and more mature things. Still sad though, we are happy having three children but the moving on from there is really brought home by the simple act of dismantling a cot.




We've had great success with the introduction of the bed. Although for the first couple of days he wasn't overly keen on actually going to sleep. But once he did have a sleep in there he's been fine!

So now to thoughts of toilet training....hmmm he's so not ready. Maybe we'll leave that one for the summer holidays.