Pyjama Rules

It is late in the day and mum and dad are heading home but I'm not, I'm on holidays and spending the rest of the week at nan and pop's house.

Sometimes, depending on where I am, the holiday rules change and one of these rules is about pyjamas. You see, nan and pop are fans of pajamas and they like me to wear them to bed EVERY NIGHT! They like pyjamas so much that they gave me a new pair for Easter, in case I forgot to pack any! If I was the boss of everything, I would happily sleep in some version of the clothes I wore that day. It saves so much time and effort if I do, it means that I can pretty much just get up and go the next day and ultimately it means that less clothes are put into the wash because I am too busy to put them away. This whole 'wearing pyjamas' thing means that I have to get changed. Or do I...?

I figure if it is expected that I wear pyjamas to bed, why not just wear them all day long, then I will save time and be ready for bed so much quicker!

Happy holidays,
Love AJ Pickle

PS - I thought that wearing my PJs all morning could be a good April Fool's Day trick but I was so comfortable that I decided that it could possibly be an every day trick!

Growing Up

Do you know what the coolest thing about growing up is?  It is actually growing UP, and by that I mean getting taller.

Almost as tall as Nan with my skates on!

I am guessing that this time next year I will be taller than Nan.  Look out Pop, it won't be long before I catch you too!

Thanks for coming all the way to Melbourne to hang out with me for my birthday.
Love AJ Pickle, the birthday boy

Keep Out! - or what to do with Post It Notes

Sometimes people like a little privacy so we thought that we would help Nanny an Poppy get some privacy.

Do you think our sign will work?

Love AJ and Milla

Look what I caught!

I love being on holidays, especially when I get to stay at Nan and Pop's house.  The only bit that I don't like is being sick and throwing up every night (fingers crossed that is over now!)  Oh there is one other thing that can be annoying - I am always surrounded by girls, they are everywhere.  Seriously, this entire neighbourhood seems to be made up of girls!  Luckily Nan took me out to Tungamah to catch up with my cousins, well my mum's cousin and her boys.  Hooray for having boys to hang out with!

The best part of the day was going fishing.  We wandered down to the Boosey Creek, the same place that we went camping a few years ago, and threw in a line.  It wasn't long before there was a tug at my line.

AJ and his first catch

I couldn't believe it - I had caught a fish!

It wasn't long before I caught another fish, and then another and another.  We caught heaps of fish.  The others were a little disappointed that the fish we caught were European Carp and no good for eating but I didn't mind, I don't eat fish anyway!

I like the country life, hanging out by the creek, catching fish and having fun.  I could get used to this.
Love AJ Pickle

70 x 2

Friday was a pretty special day, it was the day that our Nanna Pat and her twin sister Aunty/Nanny Bette celebrated their 70th birthdays.  We know Aunty/Nanna Bette isn't really our Nanna, she is our great aunt but since they are twins and they look so alike, sometimes we get confused and we just call them both Nanna!

Aunty/Nanna Bette and Nanna Pat - 70 years and 1 day old!

The nannas didn't know about it, but the kids, grandkids and some of the nieces and nephews had a surprise planned, we had organised to all go out for lunch together and then to a winery.  First we had to get everyone there.  Now I guess most people would just meet wherever we were going but this is no ordinary family, this is a family that likes to have fun, so we all caught a bus out to lunch!

I am pretty sure all the trouble makers are up the back!

We headed out to Byramine Homestead for a great lunch and birthday cake, as well as an explore of the area.  The kids got to have a party lunch - can you imagine just how crazy it was with so many of us hyped up on junk food and fizzy drink!

Some of the boys, replenishing the energy supplies.

Most of the adults didn't mind, they were enjoying some of this!

Drinks for the grown-ups

Even when we caught the bus back to town, the party wasn't over.  Really, it was just beginning.  There was more food, more cake and more fizzy drink for everyone.  I think there were some pretty tired and grumpy party folk this morning!

Thanks for sharing your special day with us Nanna Pat and Aunty/Nanna Bette,  we love you.

Love AJ and Milla

Jump for Joy

Hey Nan,

We know how much you love it when we climb up somewhere really high, so we figured that we would get mum to get some photos to show you!  We found these rocks when we were out exploring yesterday and just had to climb them.  Then the only thing we could do was to jump off them, over and over again.

We had so much fun yesterday that we even found ways to jump and go crazy again today!

See Nan, we can jump from really really high places and still land safely.  We know you are probably still freaking out but some of the things we jumped from were twice our height!

Love AJ and Milla

Surprises for Everyone

Today was a school day, but there was no school.  All of the teachers are stopping work to try to make sure that they are given the opportunity to keep being great teachers.  That and a whole lot of other reasons that we really don't understand.   

Waiting for the tram.

Anyway, the best thing about not having to go to school was that we could have a surprise adventure in the city.  

The first surprise was meeting up with Aunty Sharn and Billy, they didn't know that we weren't at school and they weren't expecting to see us.  The next surprise was when Nan and Pop got off the train and were super excited to see ALL of us.  

We had the whole day to hang out together.  It was pretty cold, so instead of doing our usual stuff, exploring parks and gardens, we decided to go to the museum.  

Kids on the moon

It has been forever since we have been to the museum and it was even more awesome than I remembered.  There was so many cool places to explore that I didn't even get time to show Billy where the kids part of the museum was.  

I wanted to stay at the museum all day long but everyone was starting to get hungry so we headed back to the city to have a late lunch.  

Eventually the day was almost over and it was time for Nan and Pop to catch the train back home.  Even if it was a busy day, it was great to spend the day with so many awesome people.

Billy's big kisses :-)

Oh and a big smoochy kiss for your birthday Aunty Sharn!

Love AJ and Milla

Sundays in my City #1 - Stressing Nanna

Once upon a time, mum used to take part in a photo meme where she got to show some of the fun stuff that we did over the weekend.  Things changed and mum stopped playing along.  We miss photos of our fun being shared with Unknown Mami and everyone else who played along with Sundays in my City so we have decided to join in.

We have spent all week hanging out with Nan and Pop but since the holidays are almost over we had to come back to Melbourne.  We were up bright and early to catch the train home and spent a few hours hanging out with nan, Aunty Sharn and Billy before Nan caught the train all the way home again.

It has been ages since we have been to this park, it is so much fun.

My favourite part of playing in this park is finding all the different places I can climb to freak Nan out!

Climbing on public art is cool, even Milla joined in for the fun!

If you want to join in the fun of Sundays in my City, it doesn't have to be a Sunday OR in a city, click on over to Unknown Mami.



Love AJ Pickle