A trip to Sydney

So much to do, so little time........

What’s on today Mum?
Do I need my tutu for creative dance?
My goggles for swimming?
Or my backpack for exploring?

Our First Road Trip

Move over Thelma and Louise. Miss Mei and Miss Camille have hit the road!
Our Mums took us on a special trip to visit Ebony(aka) Ebs, our Suixi mate up at Mt. Beauty. Even though we had lots of distractions like DVDs and Playschool singalong CDs, it seemed like a very long trip (5 hours). Our Mums thought we were pretty good. Neither of us lost it on the way up (although Camille did lose it a bit coming home, lucky her Mum brought along the Teletubbies DVD).

Ebs has great house overlooking Mt. Bogong, although for us the main attractions were all of Eb’s toys on the deck and feeding the geese and turkeys. Eb’s Mum Jen made really delicious things for us to eat. We had lots of fun squashing into the bath together.

Ebs is really lucky to live in such a beautiful place. Thanks for having us Ebs, Jen and Gra!!!

I love my teddy

My teddy is called Paddy and my Nana and Pa gave him to me.

To be camilled

camilled (kamiled) v. 1. to make mischief 2. to hamper an action or procedure 3. to interfere in the affairs of others 4. to sabotage periods of sleep

Tim and I have decided that a new word needs to be added to the dictionary: the verb to be camilled. Examples of situations where an individual (most often a parent) have been camilled are:
-putting chopsticks down the kitchen sink
- flipping out of the car seat and leaping into the front seat and pretending to drive the car
- putting coins in the video recorder
- wearing Mum’s reading glasses and bending them out of shape
- insisting on helping Mum make dinner each night
- coming into bed with parents and then wriggling and kicking for much of the night

(Please note that this is not an exhaustive list!)

Who me???????????

The Moon Festival

Almost all major Chinese festivals follow a lunar calendar. The Moon Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon. This is when the moon is full and is said to be perfectly round. Because the moon festival honours the female goddess of the moon, the the women in the family prepare for the holiday. Houses are cleaned from top to bottom and moon cakes of many different varieties are prepared. People in China say they see a rabbit in the moon, not a man as we tend to say. The jade rabbit often appears in posters celebrating the Moon Festival.

This year the Moon Festival was in late September. Junling from Kew High gave us a moon cake, filled with sweet red bean paste. Camille thought it was delicious. We also hung a few lanterns and ate a home cooked Chinese meal of stir fried beef, ginger and spinach. However, we didn’t quite get around to cleaning the house from top to bottom.

Six Suixi Sweet Peas

The Six Suixi Sweet Peas are starting to turn two.
They all met up in Yendon for a party do,
Mums, dads and pressies, chickens, geese and dogs,
But just take a look at Ruby's cubby,
We all want to have one too !

All the girls hanging out at Ruby's cubby