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| Babycino smiles |
Happy Birthday Eden!
Eden is 3! Read about birthday festivities here and his
Despicable Three birthday party here. (This includes the link to his slideshow)
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| Real men ride with Hello Kitty |
MissE: E is for Excellent
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| Miss E in her Winter Uniform |
Term 2 done! Two terms to go…
Its school
holidays again! This time we received
mid-year “report cards”. She received
many outstanding marks – yay! We loved
seeing her writing folder.
During
school holidays, she had a mix of daddy-time, mummy-time, cousin-time (thank
you Auntie L!) and vacation care. Most
note-worthy was waiting 4 hours to see the Game of Thrones Exhibition at the
MCA. You can see photos here.
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| Any excuse to post this photo |
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| Daddy time |
Eloise also went
to grading – again! We are so proud of
her, she absolutely excelled at grading.
She is now a yellow/ black belt.
To award her
for all her achievements we went to Disney on Ice: Treasure Trove (see below).
* Update:
Unfortunately we’ve hit a rough patch. At
the moment she is struggling to express her feelings without hitting, pushing
or stomping on (my) feet. Lovely, huh? It's a work in progress.
MissE Says the Darnedest Things
We are back
to having trouble with Eden staying put after bedtime. Last month, I locked him in. This month, we again told him that he would
be locked in. 5 minutes after we said
goodnight, we heard yelling and crying from upstairs. Eden had gone into Eloise’s room and was
asking her to call for us so that he wouldn’t get into trouble but she
would! The yelling was from Eloise
saying “Get out! I’m sleeping!” You have to hand it to him, he’s smart!
A few
evenings later, as we were putting him to bed, he started giggling. We asked why he was giggling and he said, “I
pee-pee-toe and didn’t get in trouble”.
It took a little bit to understand that he was saying “tipeetoe”! Cheeky monkey!
Winterfest/ Cool Yule
Girls’ Day
Out at Darling Harbour for their Winter Festival, complete with ice
skating. We tried the Thredbo snow slide
(fun!), did our best Elsa in the “Frozen Forest”, went ice skating and finished
the day at the Lindt Café over hot chocolate and sundaes.
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| The snow never bothered me anyway! |
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| Thredbo Slide |
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| No fear |
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| Ice skating |
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| Lindt Cafe |
Eloise did
very well on her 2nd time ice skating. Our session was 45 minutes but 35 minutes was
good enough for us, especially our feet.
Why are ice skates so uncomfortable???
Check out the speed racer!
Disney on Ice: Treasure Trove
Yay! The day was finally here for Disney on
Ice. This time, I got to pre-release
tickets way back in February and scored row 5 seats.
I pulled
Eden’s Woody costume together for $10 at last minute (eBay and Australia Post
failed me miserably). And Eloise was
happy to have the opportunity to wear her Snow White costume again.
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| Lion King (Eden's favourite) |
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| A Whole New World (Not going to lie, my favourite) |
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| Hello, Genie! |
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| Snow White (Eloise's favourite) |
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| The finale |
Yay! Bernice & Alan
A few short
hours after Disney on Ice, we had another event to attend: Bernice and Alan’s
wedding! It was a lovely wedding… Eloise
now has some new “aunties” and Eden shook his tail feather.
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| At the ceremony |
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| Family photo (a rarity!) |
Mini-Golf
To close out a very busy month, we had a fun
time at Matthew and Ally’s birthday party.
Check out the mini- golfers in action!
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| Her 3rd time mini-golfing, she takes it quite seriously |
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| … And the bad boy of mini-golf… celebrating after throwing his ball in the hole. |
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| July 9, 2005 |
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| Amazing Sydney sunset |
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| The White Album concert |
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| Sydney after dark |
Until next time…
Sneak preview: I’m going on
a business trip… excited to revisit a city that I haven’t been to for a while,
learn from some of the great minds of the industry and see some of my
colleagues in other parts of the world (that's you, Miss Parks)!
