Lizzie's gift for Dad

Lizzie and Steve were sitting together on the couch watching a movie.

Steve: Lizzie did you do a stinky on me?

Lizzie: No! I did twoooo!!!

Well at least she told the truth haha!

Pippi Longstocking

Lizzie has just been watching the Pippi Longstocking movie. It is the one from 1960 something and the English is dubbed in. There's a scene in the movie where Pippi has a bucket of water in her house that she tips out all over the floor and then cleans the floor with brush shoes. I had just been mopping the floor and had left the bucket of water out. Lizzie went upstairs and got on her 'Pippi' socks and 'Brush' shoes then came back downstairs and was just about to tip out the bucket of water all over our floor when luckily I happened to turn around and catch her! 

I let her tip out the water on the front porch instead.

This girl has a very active imagination!!! :)

Halloween

This year we decorated the house and had a bowl of lollies for trick or treaters. Amita and Lizzie were expert at opening the door and offering the bowl to the kids. Amita was particularly good at making sure everyone said 'Trick or Treat' first and only picked out 1 lolly (she'll make a good teacher one day!). I think we would of had about 100 kids come over.

Here are the girls with our decorations.

Amita is Mal from the Disney Descendants movie and Lizzie is Ariel. 

I've already picked up some heavily discounted decorations for next year.

Amita's Parenthood Predictions

Amita has been telling me some wonderful things that she is going to do for her kids when she is a Mum. She usually makes these announcements after I tell her she can't have or do something. I thought I'd keep track of them here so that I can remind her of these when she is a Mum!

• I will let my kids have tuckshop every day.
• I will put a sticker of a pokeball on my car.
• I will make my kids eat ALL of their dinner.
• When my kids are naughty I will say in a sweet voice, 'can you please stop it?'

Amita is 6!

Amita has celebrated her 6th Brithday.
Here is her birthday Interview 

1. What is your favourite colour? Pink and Purple

2. What are your favourite toys?  Barbies and stuffed toys like my Beanie Boo dragon.

3. What clothes do you love to wear? My Rey costume (Star Wars)

4. What do you like to do outside? Blow bubbles and be Tigger by jumping up and down.

5. What do you like to do inside? Work - school work like writing and colouring-in.

6. What songs do you love? A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Away (by Weird Al Yankovic).

7. What are your favourite foods? Apples (especially ones cut into a slinky), Rockmelon, Grapes and Chocolate. 

8. Who are your best friends? Everyone in my class at school. 

9.  What do you love to do with your family? Play with Lego and playing What's the Time Mr Wolf.

10. What do you want to do when you grow up? Be a teacher and a Mum.

11. What are your favourite books? Green Eggs and Ham and 5 minute Star Wars Stories.

12. What makes you happy? Being silly.

13. What makes you sad? When Lizzzie pushes me over and when Mum has to leave.

14. Where are your favourite places to go? The Ekka and Dreamworld and White Water World

15. What are your favourite tv shows/movies? Glitter Force (it's kind of like Sailor Moon), The Avengers and Star Wars.

16. What is your favourite animal? Leopards

17. Who is your favourite scripture person/story? Joseph Smith

18. What is your favourite ice-cream flavour? Rainbow

19. Who is your hero? My Cousins and my Grandparents and my family!

20. What do you like about Mum? Going shopping with her

21. What do you like about Dad? He tickles me

22. What do you like about Lizzie? When we be crazy together. 


So this year Amita has been a little bit Star Wars crazy. She received a lot of Star Wars themed presents and had a Star Wars party on her birthday with her school friends. She had a great day!

Amita opening her gift from Gramps and Gramsi.

 Opening her present from Nan,Pa and the Katenes. She's very excited to go to the pool soon to try out her snorkel and flippers. 

All dressed up in her Rey costume with Princess Leia Lizzie. 

Dad and Amita working on her Rey Lego racer. 

We played lots of games at Amita's party. The kids were sad when the games had all finished and it was time to go. Even the ones who didn't want their parents to leave them at the start, were hiding upstairs at the end of the party so they wouldn't have to go home (they eventually all went home). I think that makes it a success.

Here's Amita whacking the Pinata. We only got through half of the kids before it broke open. I'll need to do more than 3 layers of paper mache next time. 

All of the party-goers playing musical statues. 

The donut game... I Love Lizzie's face!

This one was Amita's favourite game. They had to free Han Solo from the block of ice with a spoon. Once he was free they got an ice-block. They also played the chocolate game, pass the parcel and did an obstacle course. 

Amita with her cake. She set up the good guys on one side and the bad guys on the other so they were having a battle. 

Steve's Birthday/Father's Day Week

Steve is very lucky and gets his Birthday and Father's Day in the same week! His Birthday was a bit boring because he had to work and go to a staff meeting but we went to The Coffee Club for dinner and had a Krispy Kreme birthday cake.

Here are the girls putting the cake together. Apparently it is a very zen experience.

He was psyched (ha!) that the last season of Psych also includes the musical episode - which it doesn't in the US. We are now watching this series from the beginning to end. Lucky I like it too! Amita and Lizzie got him some Superman gear and I also got him tickets a long time ago to see  'Singing in the Rain' (and we are seated in the splash zone). 

Luckily I could make Father's Day a bit more special for him. Steve had said a few times that he'd like to go visit Augathella. It is a little town out in West QLD and his Grandfather's family come from there. I decided to take us all on a weekend camping road trip out there. I know it sounds like a crazy idea but we loved it and the girls did so well with all the driving (5 hours on both days).

Making a stop in Roma and posing with a cow in the info centre. Roma is known for it's cattle saleyards. I got lots of brochures for places we'd like to go camping at next! 

We followed a sign pointing to a historical site along the way. We have no idea what or where the historical site is but we found a bunch of emus on the way (fun fact: a group of emus is called a mob). They decided to cross the road in front of us as we were driving back to the highway. It was definitely worth the detour. 

Steve loved this sign! He likes to think it means 'beware of cows that eat cars!' 100m after we saw the sign we came across a herd of cows crossing the road. 

Here is Amita being super helpful in the tent while Lizzie sets up her bed. We love our new instant up tent! There is plenty of room and it takes less than 5 minutes for us to put it up and take it down. We could probably do it in 1 minute if we wanted to. 

 There are 2 options for eating out in Augathella - the Pub and the BP roadhouse. We went to the BP and the girls got a can of soft drink each with their dinner. Amita's friend at school collects cans to recycle so she insisted on getting a can of drink, and anything Amita does, Lizzie has to do too. It only took 30 seconds for them to go crazy.

And what does any sane parent do after giving their kid red fizzy drink? Give them Bubble-o-bills to eat for dessert of course! Luckily they were tired and went to sleep easily. Steve and I however did not (more on that at the bottom).

 We had a BBQ Father's Day breakfast at the park. Lizzie got Steve a box of Favourites, Amita got him a pen, magnet and rocky road. I had given him a hammock earlier on that was at home. 

We then went to find interesting things in town to take pictures of. Here a couple of them. My apologies that the first one is the toilet block. I thought it was funny that it was called a 'Public Convenience.'

The Big Meat-Ant! 

We think (based on directions) that this is the old family home. It does not look like anyone lives there now. 

This is the Police Station. We hear it is a one man operation. We also went to the cemetery and took photos of Steve's ancestor's gravestones. 

Ready for the trip back home. If Steve and I look tired, it is because we are! Apparently for a town of 500 (of whom you see no-one during the day) they love to party hard on a Saturday night. The Pub had a DJ going till 3am. The Pub is on the other side of town to where we camped but the music was crystal clear. After the music died down Lizzie decided to wake up and announced that the Sun was up now so she can get up - it was about 4:30am. Steve generously shared his blankets with her to get her back to sleep. From 5:00am, Amita was snoring like a freight train! We managed to get a few hours of sleep in between all of those distractions and I'm sure we'll sleep well tonight.  

Lizzie's Concert

I got myself a ukulele and had been practicing a few songs this morning. Lizzie did some practice too and wanted to show you her song!