Playing Hairdressers

Now normally when I play hairdressers, I am only allowed to create interesting hair styles but not actually be a real hairdresser and cut hair.  Well all that changed today, mum let me cut her hair!

Now despite mum’s expression, she really is happy for me to be cutting her hair!  I think it is more about me playing with her hair and imagining that she is getting a relaxing massage.

 Look at how much hair I cut!

Note to self - next time take a set of before and after photos to show the world.  
Love Princess George, the hairdresser

With Dad and Dave

I went for a lovely relaxing 'walk' with Dad and Dave this morning as we hit some golf balls around the golf course.  I wasn't hoping to have a hit or 2 as we walked around but there weren't many other people playing so I got to play most holes.  It was a pretty great way to spend the morning.

We really didn't do too much walking, Dad and Dave hired a golf cart to get us around the course.
Shhh, don't tell mum but I also got to drive the cart too!
Love AJ Pickle

Christmas Eve Craziness

We decided to start Christmas early this year and my cousins all came over to our house to begin the celebrations on Christmas Eve.


Naturally with the cousins there, we would have to share presents and of course there were far too many presents under the Christmas tree.  We had a simple solution to that problem...  hand out the presents and start ripping.



Before we knew it, there was ripped up wrapping paper everywhere and little kids playing with their presents.


Of course there were big kids who had about a billion presents too but they were too clever to open all of their presents and play with them, they hid them from the little kids and played with their toys instead!

Unwrapping so much food made us work up  an appetite.  Naturally there was way too much food to keep us going and give us the energy to keep running and playing.


Eventually the early start to Christmas was over, the cousins headed home and it was time for us to get ready for bed.

Of course we have left out some snacks for Santa, just in case he has the munchies when he arrives here.

  

Time for us to go to bed now, Santa is on the way.

Merry Christmas,
Love AJ and Milla

A spot of tidying

Did you know that parents nag, a LOT?  Well if you didn't know that, I can tell you that they do, particularly when you make a mess and don't ever clean it up.  I am pretty good at making a mess and I don't like cleaning it up but some times it is easier to just clean up rather than listen to the nagging.  Today was one of those days.

Instead of listening to the complaining about the mess, I decided to get to work and start to clean my room.  I picked up all the treasures that were stored safely all over my bedroom floor and stacked them on the shelves.  The paper planes that I didn't need any more made there way to the recycling bin and the clothes that were strategically shoved into any corner of my cupboard were all sorted.

I think I made mum proud because when she came to see what I was doing she was so excited she took photos.

She may have been disappointed that she didn't get 'before' photos to show just how much work I had done but she was pretty happy with the end result of my cupboard clean out.  It wasn't just the hanging space that I cleaned out, I cleaned out the storage baskets too.  I folded all my jocks and sorted my socks too!

Folded jocks!

Sorted socks!

Isn't it is strange that a clean cupboard and bedroom can make parents happy!

Love AJ Pickle


 

The Cub Princess

Today was the day, the day that I have been practicing so hard for, it was the day that I was invested into my Cub Scout group.

I joined as a new chum a while back with my friends and we were all going to be invested together but then I went away on holidays.  My friends were invested when I was away and I had to be invested all on my own.

I was so nervous.  Can you tell?

Now that I am a real cub I am not so nervous.  I am looking forward to earning millions of badges to cover my entire uniform!

Love Princess George the Grey Six Cub

Another Mini Adventure

I was starting to worry that being back home in Melbourne that we wouldn't have time to go on adventures any more.

Luckily we found time to go on a geocaching adventure today, on our way to a barbecue.  OK, it may not have been a successful geocaching adventure, we didn't actually find the cache, but we did have a great time exploring this cool park.

Can you believe that this park is actually in suburbia?  It was so quiet and relaxing to explore that it was easy enough to imagine that we were far away from suburbia and relaxing in the middle of the bush.

I hope that some day we get to come back here and find the cache!
Love AJ Pickle

All Things American

Taxi!

Our quest to do All Things American continued.  Our bus was a little late arriving in at Penn Station because we had to drive through the New York Marathon.  (If only we had arrived earlier, we could have run the marathon too!)

We had too much luggage to take on the subway so we had to catch a cab to our hotel.
Once we had checked in, we headed out to explore the neighbourhood that would be our home for the next few days.

The next typically American thing we did was buy homemade brownies from a sidewalk bake-sale in the Bowery.  The kids had just made the brownies and wandered out to sell them.

Beautiful Brownies

I wonder if we will stumble upon a lemonade stand like we did last time we were in America?

Either way, what a great start to our stay in New York.  I think we are really going to love this city!
Love AJ and Milla