Party time

It's come the time when all our friends are turning 40 and celebrating in style with a lavish party.  This has seen us attend a few exciting and fancy parties in Sydney lately, leaving the kids behind with Nanoo so we can be merry and endure our hangovers sans enfants.

One recent party was Austin Powers themed.  Check out our outfits.

Would the real Mustafa please stand up!

Ready to go-go dance the night away.

Things Milly says #1

I thought I might start regularly posting some of the things Milly says, as a way of recording them so I don't forget.  She has a funny way with words.  This is what she said to me last night.

Milly:  Mum, I love you more than I hate everyone else in the whole world!

Mister

Looking back over the blog in recent months, our little Mister Henry hasn't had much coverage.  I try to even it out, but with him at school he's not around to photograph and photos of him doing his homework or playing the Wii are really not that interesting.  So with not much else going on in Henry's life (until soccer season starts) it was very exciting when he got a big award at the school assembly. 

Our boy is really growing up.  We've had to let him go a bit as he's finding his independence and it is hard at times when I just want to cuddle him and still have him as my little boy.  Every now and then (and they are getting fewer) he'll want to snuggle and have me stroke his face or hair, and I savour it as much as I can.  He'll be seven years old next month.  We are so proud of him and the little mister he is becoming.

The material girl

Our Miss Milly loves to get dressed up.  It's not uncommon for her to change her outfit a couple of times a day to suit her mood or whatever activity she has planned for herself.  One night when I went to tuck her in bed she proudly showed off three outfits she had put together and was deciding upon to wear the next day.  Each outfit was layed out on her bed and styled with shoes, a hat, jewellery, a bag and curiously a matching DVD.

The jogging or exercise outfit.

All dressed up for a ball.

Can't remember what this one is called, but she's at least wearing 8 different things at once.

She calls this one her ballerina angel dress up or sometimes her ice skating outfit.

Other than playing dress ups, Milly also loves colouring in.  She'll happily colour in on her own but sometimes she likes someone to colour in with.  She likes to chat while she colours and she likes to tell you how she wants you to colour.  My favourite is when she says encouraging things about my colouring in ability.  She'll let me know if she likes the colours I've chosen, if my colouring in is neat enough, or she'll simply say "that's beautiful Mum, but mine's the bestest".  Michael was lucky enough to do some colouring in with Milly one day.  The photo below isn't very clear but I can tell you he selected some nice colours and coloured in very neatly.

"Mines betterer than yours Dadda."