Beach Cousins

 

 

It's not easy to get these three together in one photo!  We went to Bribie for a couple of days and Freya & Keily became a little duo whilst Eli had a firm preference to hang out with me.  While the girls splashed in the ocean Eli asked over and over for me to 'stuck, eeze!'  (stuck please).  That was Eli's way of  asking me to bury his feet.  He would then make his flying noise which also turns out to be some kind of super power noise as he would make a great display of breaking free.   

Toby's Arty Party

We went to Toby's 'Arty Party' today and what an amazing party it was!  Mel and John had organised lots of different activity stations for the children including a trough of slimy goo, bead bracelet making, drawing, dressups and more.  Cousin Keily was at the party too and the kids had an absolute blast!  Freya discovered the joy of cheezel fingers (which I used to love doing as a kid) and Eli found joy in a marshmallow with a freckle on a stick!  Freya and Eli were both very impressed with Toby's green dragon cake.   

Painting

 

I came home to some very messy children today!  Aunty Sniv and cousin Keily have been staying with us this week while I have been doing my internship.  It seems that a spot of painting was done!

 

All photos by Aunty Sniv.

My little boy turns 2

My beautiful boy turned two today and we had a sausage sizzle and cake with family and friends to celebrate.  Eli LOVES cars.  He likes to talk about them 'car, car keys!'  He likes to play with them and he loves to be in them.  So it was only natural that his cake should of course be a car.   His party favours were a small collection of his favourite things... a matchbox car, a freddo frog and a lollypop.  He also loves popcorn and often drags the popcorn maker out himself and pushes it at whomever he thinks might make it for him so his party favour bags were little paper popcorn bags.

At the end of the day Freya remembered that she had wanted to give Eli a special gift.  When she turned two her Nana had given her a number 2 fridge magnet.  Freya doesn't often part with items easily but she resolutely informed me that since she was no longer two and Eli was that she should give it to him.  So she wrapped it up and made my heart swell as she tried to hand it over to her little brother... her little brother who was by that stage very overtired and didn't want a bar of it!  But with a little time he opened it.  I felt so relieved that he eventually provided Freya with with a happy smile for her little gift before he promptly popped it in his new toy pot and cooked it!