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Halloween


Things got a bit spooky around here with the local halloween festival on the weekend.  We had really been looking forward to it for quite a while but unfortunately it looked like it would be a fairly soggy event.  But as they say, the show must go on.

We had Pa and Nanna Kaye staying here at the time so they got to witness the cuteness that was not only our two little spooksters but a bunch of Ollie's friends who also joined us.

Ol, at his request, was a robot.  We may have been calling him a "gay robot" (think c3po) behind his back thanks to the particularly  shiny stretchy material I made his costume out of along with the presence of glow sticks.  But he certainly didn't seem to mind and all the time spent cursing the annoying material while at the sewing machine was completely worth it.

Little Miss Eve's costume on the other hand took about an hour to make and cost around about $3.50 for a little bit of white material. The rest I had lying around including the brown t-shirt that became her Princess Leia hair.  I figured that over the next few years I'll probably be fielding requests for Disney Princesses so I wanted to dress her up as something cool while I still could!  She looked amazingly gorgeous and didn't even seem to mind wearing her hat.



Note Ol's "awesometer" gauge!!!

My two llittle cutie pies!



Even Princess Leia sometimes likes to sit in her pram sucking her thumb and snuggling her wooby.


Ol's pals included a skeleton, spiderman and a witch.  Of course they all went a little bit mad in their costumes, as is to be expected.

The dodgy weather continued to loom overhead while we had a costumed play at the park and fish and chips for dinner.  It became even more threatening as the boys played the clown games (you know, the ridiculously overpriced ones where you shove the balls in their mouths - but they think it is pretty awesome).  But it wasn't until we got ourselves into position to watch the street parade that the heavens decided to open up.  The kids donned rain jackets while the parents huddled under umbrellas that seemed to be dripping on us more than protecting us.  Eve was in the best place with a rain cover over her pram but being at knee level of a lot of scary dressed up people was just a bit too much for her.   We stuck it out for the first little bit of the parade but once the winds came up we split up from the boys and headed home in the rain.


After the parade the boys headed home too and it was on this walk while on Nick's shoulders that Ol invited his friend Zac to stay - "Zac, would you like to come to my house for a movie".  Zac, also on his dad's shoulders replied "Thank you Oliver that would be lovely"!  Pleasantries aside, warm clothes donned and the little munchkins settled beautifully into watching 'Despicable Me' for the millionth time while the mummies and daddies had a few calming bevvies.  This was topped off with a brilliant fireworks display perfectly viewed from our back deck.


So despite it literally raining on our parade, it was a pretty dang awesome night for the kidlets. Even cranky pants Eve had a reasonable good time.



In non spooky news around here these two little'uns continue to learn to play reasonably nicely together.  Lately they've had a great time playing playdough together (well Eve ate more than she played) as well as pushing wheeled toys around like a pint sized bikie gang.


One of the wheeled vehicles include Ol's new pride and joy - his scooter.  We bought him a cheapy one a while ago but it never took off.  Since buying him this schmicko one he hasn't let it out of his sight.  He even sits next to it on the rug to have snacks.  Too cute.  It also makes my life a lot easier as he can scooter alongside the pram when we make our very frequent trips to the post office to post lots of t-shirts.




Cheezels anyone?  Nanna Carmel has brought cheezels over a few times lately and it would seem that my two children are absolutely crazy for them.  We've shown Ol how to eat them off his fingertips which of course he thinks is the best.


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