Lucas' Christening

We all got dressed up in our Sunday best for baby Lucas' christening and the girls were very excited to be looking prim and proper! 

                                              
 

The christening was at a church in St Kilda and the reception was at Quat Quatta, an old mansion near Ripponlea.  Unfortunately, the girls still are not that great at keeping quiet during the church service and Abbey could not understand why she could not talk and kick the church pew in front of her ...luckily the service only went for half an hour! 

The star of the show, baby Lucas and his parents Kon and Jacqui

At the reception the kids were kept very entertained drawing and creating a mess on the fine dining tables and jumping up and down on the antique furniture and belting out notes on the grand piano.  By the end of the day the prim and proper look had been abandoned by the girls, their shoes were kicked off because it made running too hard and Abbey's little Burbery dress was covered in cake icing and textas ! Here's hoping that Napisan works its magic in removing the stains !!

Everywhere that Eloise went ....

Everywhere that Eloise went, Abbey is sure to go ....  The girls have become inseperable of late with Abbey following her sister wherever she goes. 

"Where are you going ?"

"Wait for me ..."

Eloise is very protective of Abbey and often calls her "bubba" and will not let anyone else call her little sister "bubba" because only she has earnt the right to do so ! Abbey meanwhile calls her big sister "Jeh Jeh". 

Quite often after her nap, Abbey will call out for "Jeh Jeh"  and Eloise will race down to see her and climb into her cot to keep her company.  

Lunch & Paint

Eloise reminded us that it has been a while since they had seen their cousins, Lochie, Dylan and Zoey so we made plans to rectify the situation.  Unfortunately, Lochie already had plans but we did catch up with Dylan and Zoey and baby Amber.  Take away Yum Cha lunch at Andrew & Mayna's followed by the kids 'painting' the walls of Uncle Andrew's herb garden. The painting lasted a whole 2 minutes before there was more paint going on each other than the wall !  

City Slickers

Apart from time on Grandma's farm, this is as close to farm life as these city slicker girls are going to get.  Abbey was absolutely thrilled to get so up close and personal to some of her favourite animals. The poor little lamb got a lot of Abbey's attention !

Fairy Tales

Once upon a time in a far away(about an hours drive out of Melbourne towards Geelong) land (Anakie)there was a Fairy Park....where there were actually no fairies but lots of characters from your favorite fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks and Rapunzel.

It was a fair drive out to really the middle of nowhere but it was worth it to see the kids' faces light up when they saw some of these fairy tales come alive. Abbey was almost beside herself when she saw a life sized Humpty sitting on the wall as we drove through the park gates.

The park has been around since the fifties and was built by a family who started out making gnomes. They turned a rocky outcrop in the middle of the country into a park that features replicas of scenes from lots of fairy tales complete with animation and a audio recording of the actual fairy tale. Eloise was very excited to see and listen to these tales as she loves her fairy tales.

There was also a great playground where the girls spent nearly two hours in. All the play equipment was homemade and had a medieval Camelot theme.

Happy Birthday Gung Gung

It was Gung Gung's birthday and Eloise made him an orange and poppy seed cake and off course lovingly decorated it in her very own style.  

There was also a Laurent chocolate mousse cake courtesy of ANZ bank which went down a treat with Abbey. After demolishing a large slice her only words were "more, more" !

Pool play

Well, what to do on a cold cold wet day ? The girls had both been asking us to take them swimming .. so the pool it was !  We found an aquatic centre with a great toddler area in a rather unlikely neighboorhood ...Thomastown!