Fairy Fambulous!

(not a typo)

My friend Amelia and her little brother Zach came to visit me today. AJ and I convinced mum that we would need some yummy snacks to eat with our friends, so we made some chocolate with chocolate chip cookies. I was happy because it was my turn to crack the egg all by myself and I didn't get the shell in the chocolate mixture.

After we had tasted the mixture to make sure that it was chocolatey enough, we put it on to the tray ready to bake. When mum wasn't watching we made really huge lumpy cookies!

Finally the cookies were baked, the mess was cleaned up (well except for the mixture still on my face) and then Amelia and Zach arrived. We played "Fairy Fambulous" (kid speak for dressing up as fabulous fairies!) and did some craft. As we were making cut and paste pictures, mum made some new wands for our magic. It was great fun.

I love it when Amelia comes to play with me and we dress up.

Love Princess George

Paddy's Pub

Today we went out to where Paddy's Pub used to be, a long long time ago - in the olden days. There is no pub there now, but yesterday we helped poppy stick a big plaque to a rock out where the pub used to be. Paddy was my nanny's great-grandfather, that means he was my great-great-great grandfather!

A long long time ago Paddy Bourke had a pub that was in the middle of no-where; between Yarrawonga and Cobram, somewhere near Burramine. As well as having a Pub, Paddy also had a General Store and a Post Office. It must have been a pretty good pub because Ned Kelly stopped there long enough to steal the boat to get away from the police!

Great-great-great grandfather Paddy decided that Tungamah was a better place to live than Burramine. He built the Victoria Hotel in Tungamah where my nanny used to live when she was a little kid!

Today lots of people (most of them related to me) went out to the big rock, to have a celebration about the olden days. They talked all about the pub and the people who lived there. Then they took the cover off the plaque and everyone clapped. After that we all ate more sausages!

It was so cool listening to stories about the olden days, but it was even more fun playing with my cousins - Jackson, Charlie, Dylan and Will!
Love AJ Pickle

Look at all my cousins who came to play at Paddy's Plaque.

Nanny's Foot

This weekend we are having a holiday at Nan and Pop's house in Yarrawonga. It is a bit of a strange holiday because nan has been in hospital and had her foot bones stuck together. She isn't allowed to walk by herself, so she uses big sticks to help her walk or sometimes she goes for a ride in a chair with wheels on it.

Even though she wants to play with us, we tell her that she has to sit still. She doesn't really like that. I know what she means, I don't like sitting still either, but if she doesn't sit still her foot won't get better and she won't be able to play fun games with us.

Most of the time, I am happy to sit with nan and tell her stories about the dolls that I play with and the adventures that I have with AJ.

I hope that nanny's foot gets better really soon.

Love Princess George.

AJ the Drummer!

Look at me, I am a drummer.

I know that I need to practice a little bit more, but first I have to convince someone that I need my own drum kit. That is OK, Santa might read my blog and get me one for Christmas - I have been a really good boy.

When I have my own drums, I will practice heaps and one day I will be a famous dancer and musician. Maybe I can even travel the world in my own production like Stomp!

Love the talented AJ Pickle

STOMP

I am becoming quite a little theatre buff - yesterday I went to the theatre again, this time I saw Stomp. It was fantastic, and very educational too! I didn't know that you don't need instruments to make music.

The stomp people made music with brooms and tubes and lids and plungers. In fact they could make music with just about anything - even the kitchen sink! I didn't know that all you needed was a kitchen sink and a pair of rubber gloves and you could make music. They used rubbish bins and barrels like drums.

Even when they had nothing, they could make music, just by doing tap dancing (without tappers) and clapping their hands. It was amazing just how many different sounds they could make.

I think that maybe I should learn how to make music like the Stomp people, I already learn how to tap, I know how to clap, all I need now is to play the drums.

Love AJ

International Tap Dancing Day

To celebrate International Tap Dancing Day we went into the city, to see hundreds of tap dancers performing in Federation Square.

The dancers must have known we were coming to see them because they came over to the steps at Flinders Street Staion just as we arrived. After they danced for a while on the steps and had photos with some famous dancing guy, everyone danced across the road to Federation Square.

We watched the concert. AJ was too tired after all of his dance practice last night, so he just rested and cheered, but I danced and danced and danced. It was fantastic.

It won't be long until I can go to dancing too. Maybe if I ask AJ really nicely, he might teach me how to do tap dancing.

Love the dancing Princess George

PS - I will add a movie later (I need to find new software first)

Playing at Kinder

I went to AJ's kinder again today. There is so much to do at kinder, that I never know what to do first. Luckily lots of the big kinder kids like to play with me and make sure that I have lots of fun.

Today I played in the dress-up corner with some of my friends. Can you believe that there are even more princess dress-ups at kinder than at Ella and Taylah's house!

When we were dressed up like princesses we paraded around, showing everyone else just how beautiful we were. We even did some princess artwork together, then played puzzles and read books together before we decided we were hungry and had to go to the kids kitchen to make some pretend princess lunch.

I love it when I go to kinder, I can't wait until I am big enough to go to my own kinder.
Love Princess George