Boulder

My boys have discovered You Tube. Mostly Thomas stuff at this stage. They love watching Rusty and the Boulder. It's quite funny to watch Squealy trying his hardest in his emerging language to warn you that Boulder is coming!

Fuzzy also enjoys watching random movies that the public have made up themselves, which are totally dodgy but hilarious for a 2 & 4 year old. Things like: "Thomas and the Mad Bomber" & "Thomas Fires the Laser".

At least it keeps Fuzzy quiet for a bit when Squealy sleeps. Fuzzy has totally given up his day sleep so sometimes you just need 5 minutes without him bothering you about something. It's going to be a long Christmas break.

Christmas Day

Here are some pictures from the day. Overall we had a great day, but it ended up being alot of work. Kids had way too much to eat. Fuzzy decided he enjoyed the punch and had quite abit of it (alcohol free!).

All three were really pleased with their gifts and they didn't know what to play with first. We tried sitting in a circle this year and opening a gift at a time. This worked really well and slowed things down a bit.

I still didn't manage to get any decent photos at all. Most of them were blurry. So it's going to make scrapping Christmas LO's pretty difficult.

Christmas Eve...

Twas the night before Christmas and three very excited children wouldn't go to bed. So we bundled then up into the car and headed off for a little Christmas light sight seeing.

We didn't have to go very far to see some fantastic light displays. Our favourite by far was to be found tucked in the street directly behind my new school in Charnwood! Wow what a display.The kids were so excited as it really has to be seen to be believed.

The good thing about this display is that quite a few of the Santa's etc all move. The kids loved the Santa who was fishing!

















The last thing to do for the evening was to put out food and drinks for Santa and the Reindeer. We had to put out carrots and 2 types of cookies, choc chip and milk arrowroot. Fuzzy insisted that the reindeer would need water, so out went a bowl of water. String Bean was sure that Santa would be thirsty so a beer would be the go! What a spoilt Santa :-)

Merry Christmas everyone!

3 Year Old Preschool Highlights

Fuzzy Wuzzy attended year old preschool this year for 2 half days a week at Noah's Arc in Giralang. He has had a lovely year and the staff and program are of the a very high standard. If he wasn't off to big school next year we'd happily send him again. Not long to go and it will be Squealy's turn!

A Day For Birthday Parties.

String Bean had two birthday parties today, back to back. The first party was a superheros theme party for her friend Sam. What a lovely party! 8 guests, apple bobbing and canvas painting. Oh and dressing up and water fights!!!
The second party was at Pink Kisses at Belconnen for her friend Georgia. Now given I had some preconceived ideas I was actually pleasantly surprised. The girls were treated to a new hair style and some glitter hair spray. They could then choose either a butterfly mask (which String Bean jumped at!), a hair extension or a multi coloured hair plat thing? ;-) She then got a minimal (hardly any) blush and eye shadow makeover. It's not really her thing though.

















They did lots of dancing, limbo game and made up either a lip gloss or some bubble bath. They all had an absolute ball. Even if she spent the entire party choosing no pink things.....was hard for her too. But she managed to find a blue bracelet, green hair clip, white butterfly mask, etc. The girls could choose five things to add to their lolly bags. Not sure if I'd personally have a Pink Kisses party.....then I'd have to explain to Fuzzy and Squealy why they weren't invited!

The First Tooth.

String Bean has lost her first baby tooth. She seems to have sprouted lately, gotten really tall and quite lanky. So I guess this is all just a part of her growing up. She was so pleased the tooth fairy came to visit, leaving her a dollar. I wonder when the next tooth will fall out? None are wiggly yet, but it can't be too far away.

Zoo visit.

Yesterday we gave into the kids nagging and took them off to visit the zoo. After getting over the price!!!! ($57 which included 25% off from the Entertainment book voucher) we actually had a great time.

We arrived just in time to see the monkeys being fed by the keeper on Monkey Island. The kids loved seeing them mucking around and doing lots of tricks. When asked if anyone had any questions, String Bean asked the keeper if she could feed the monkeys.....please! The answer was no but he took the time to explain why and she didn't mind at all.





We then walked around the whole zoo. The highlights were seeing the penguins being fed by another keeper and watching the brown bear eat a block of ice full of sardines! Fuzzy had a great time 'trying' to get close to the kangaroos in the petting area. He had minimal success. Squealy loved everything especially the giraffes and the 'crocs' his favourite animals.

Pity about the entry cost. The kids had such a great time it is a real shame we can't visit more often.