Maddie is learning to read!
Wearing fairy wings to church! .. & searching for a pizza place
Maddie is....not happy that we can't find the pizza place!
Pizza place can't be found.. must settle for a burger instead!
... or a fruit salad
Maddie dresses up as Cinderella for a school fundraiser.. pretty hair!
What a cute hat from Great Grandma Sue!
Christmas decorations in Carnaby Street
Kylie turns 27!!! Its time for an Indian feast!
Maddie did a good job of looking after me on the morning of my birthday.
She made me an awesome wrapping paper covered bottle... my favourite present! A few days before my birthday we were skyping with Mum, and Maddie told me I had to go into my bedroom while she showed Dee Dee the present that she had made for me. So I marched myself off to my room, and she promptly held up the wrapping paper covered bottle to mum... who exclaimed 'wow its beautiful.. what's inside it?" (by this time I am giggling in the bedroom, because I know that there is nothing inside it..and how proud Maddie is of the fact she has covered this bottle with paper)
Maddie replied with an 'are you stupid!' flat tone: "its just a bottle, just an old recycled bottle" .. so by this time I am cracking up, and Maddie tells mum with a sigh "Mama's laughing in there" :)
I guess you had to be there, but it was funny at the time. Its so cute how fiercely proud of her paper covered bottle she was. I made a very appropriate fuss of it when I was presented with it on the day!
Me and my pressies - taken by Maddie
Pressies and cards... (note that amazing bottle at the back!)
Maddie gets a present of her own!
On the Friday night following my birthday I had a great night out with Michelle and Laura. We went to a funky Asian restaurant,with desserts to die for. We ate so much, that we felt the need to walk.. and walked nearly all the way home!
I can't tell you how good they were, but Loz's face sums it up!
To be quite honest I think the celebration of Halloween is one of the strangest things I have ever heard of. I may be completely ignorant, cause I have no idea of its origin, or what it actually means... but the idea of dressing up as frightening scary creatures, and knocking on people's doors at night (which have been decorated with carved vegetables!!!); asking for lollies (or sweets if I was to use the 'English' term).. is just plain weird!!!
I'm reading this to Maddie as I type .. and she said to say "But tell them it was fun!" Ha ha :)
Well just for a bit of fun we decided to join in on doing the whole trick or treat thing, with Maddie's friend from school, her brother and her parents. Maddie thought it was an absolute blast. We had to find her a quick fix costume in the morning of the 31st, and being the girly girl that she is, there was no way in the world that she was going to dress up as something scary! She was desperate to be a princess, and luckily thanks to Woolworth's we were able to pick up a cheap sleeping beauty costume.
Getting ready at Ruby's house
Ruby, Max and Maddie
Collecting from a Witch with a big black spider!!
Artistic Pumpkins
The excitement was absolutely out of control as we got ready at Ruby's house and that was before we even fed them any sugar!!
We caught a cab to a nearby street that was particularly well known for its decorations. It was pretty impressive.. the majority of houses were really well decorated and people had gone to a lot of trouble. Everyone obviously had the same idea as us about this street, as the footpaths were packed with kids! The girls thought it was absolutely fantastic that they were greeted at the door by witches who gave them lollies. They went from house to house and filled up their bags with goodies... with us reminding them at each gate to remember their 'thankyou's'!
Thankfully it was all over pretty quickly, as I was absolutely freezing (yes yes Mum, I know, Maddie's only wearing short sleeves! You should have heard me trying to convince her to put a coat on over her costume.. it was no use!)
Besides the cold, I had a dinner appointment to get to (see the next post).. so we hurried to Sam and Laura's where Sam showed great interest in inspecting Maddie's goodie bag, and did a great job of cheering her up (as the walk back to their house was a bit of a trial!!)
Would I do it next year?... hmmm....well... I think once every two years would be better... or maybe every three!
Oh - and the best part of all was walking back to Sam's house when Maddie said "Mama, I love doing Twinkle tree".....
