March Comes in Like a Lion

Frozen Sing-a-long

We attended Frozen Sing-a-long this month.  It took me 2 hours to transform Eloise into Elsa and Eden into a Love Expert for the movie.  I really need to set time aside to do more sewing! J

Love Expert & Elsa

Queen Elsa
{Not bad for 2 hours on the sewing machine!}

Troll aka the Love Experts

Iron Tiger

Miss E aka the Lil’ Tigress went up for grading this month for her solid yellow belt.  She did well even though she had to wear her mouth guard and spar with a partner for the first time in her test!

Hello Wombat

Miss E had her good behaviour rewarded with a weekend with the class pet, Walter.

Yay Miss E!

Sleeping Beauty {Target find}

As we are coming to the end of Eloise’s 1^st term at school, we are so proud her for earning Merits left and right.  First a ribbon, then she received a Merit Certificate at the assembly for the term; 1 of the 3 Kindergartners to receive a Merit Certificate!  Poor thing thought there was another “Eloise H” in the school and didn’t stand up until her classmates told her to!

Merit ribbon from mini-merits earned and Merit Certificate

We also had our first parent – teacher interview.  It was nothing but praise for her and nice to see how far she has come from week 1 to week 10 in her reading (already Level 5 at the time of writing this post) and writing.

Barbie Princess Pearl High Tea for Two

To celebrate her successes, I took Eloise on a Mama-Daughter date to The Langham Sydney.  We took the bus in (yay! $2.50 all day, any mode of transport) and slowly strolled through The Rocks Market, stopping for a traditional lemonade, on our way to The Langham.

Bus selfie

The Rocks Market traditional lemonade

The Langham Sydney
{I love The Langham Hotel chain}

Tutus and Tiaras for High Tea
{The Langham Sydney lobby}

We were escorted to our table to find it all set-up with the menu for the day, some colouring with sharpened pencils, DIY bracelet and a new Barbie doll!  Sparkling strawberry lemonade was already on the table but before Eloise could take it all in and I got a few photos, Eloise was being served hot chocolate with marshmallows and I had a full glass of champagne!  That is service!

A new doll for each little girl

My tower on the left and Eloise's on the right

Dessert plate in the Barbie Princess Pearl theme

Soon our tea towers were delivered to our tables.  I thought we would share one, but I had one to myself too!  Eloise was in hot chocolate and scone heaven, while watching the Barbie Princess Pearl movie.  She kept exclaiming how this was the best… I couldn’t agree more!

She soon made friends with Emma and Louisa who came over to colour at our table.  They also played in Barbie’s corner with her new doll.

After high tea, we leisurely made our way back to the bus and homeward bound.

MrE hits the Terrible Two’s

… or is it Three-anger already?  It's tantrums, pushing, yada yada.  I don’t even want to talk about.  Let’s just focus on how cute he is!

Checking out his 'do

Practicing for our big camping adventure

Eden is ready to help with chores: here is his "helping" with the laundry

MissE Says the Darnedest Things

The Walking Dead & Tooth Fairy cross-over?
MissE lost another tooth this month, while brushing her teeth.  I put her tooth in her tooth bag and hung it on the door handle (if you recall, the Tooth Fairy lays eggs in ears).  She came and pulled the bag tight.

Me: Why are you closing it?  How will the Tooth Fairy get in?

MissE: Forget about the Tooth Fairy!  I am worried about the zombies coming for my teeth!

BTW, we couldn’t find 50₵ so she scored $2!

But...
MrE loves having his tummy rubbed.
MrE: My tummy is sore!  Rub my tummy!
MissE: Come here, buddy.

MrE: (Lifting up his shirt) I want tummy and tummy rubs
Me: No thanks.
MrE: But daddy does that!

Me

9-5

Melbourne in a Day

This time it was Melbourne in a day.  It had been a few years since I’ve been to Melbourne.  I loved exploring all the lane-ways.

Flinders Station, Melbourne

Centre Place lane-way

Hosier Lane for urban art

Love Locks on the Yarra footbridge

MY Kitchen Rules!

My work loves a bit of friendly competition (see my Christmas post here).  We felt a bit robbed after the Deck the Halls competition so when the Taste of Harmony  came up, we were in it to win it… and we did (judged by our VP in ANZ)!

Our country was the Good Ole USA.  We built a lemonade stand as part of our theme (can’t get any more American than that!).  Our menu: Lemonade (of course), pulled pork sliders, twisted mac n cheese, PB & J sandwiches (we also had PB and marshmallow fluff), pumpkin pie and spiced pumpkin bread, and brownies.  The best part is that one of the other business units had an advantage, a Masterchef finalist cooking for them… and we still beat them! 

I also had another movie night in Gold Class.  Thank you, Starwood Group!  The only problem with reclining lounges and bubbles = Zzzz… just kidding, kind of.

Mini sliders and champagne after a hard days work

Girls Night Out

Yay!  We closed out the tapas restaurant catching up… but were missing our 4^th (Jen) and 5^th, maybe next time Cynthia can FaceTime in from the US.  I wish!  Miss you, Cyn!

Extra Virgin Fine Foods

Until next time…