Checking out the new place! - A sneak peak

When you come to visit us at our new place, there are heaps of different entrances that you can use.  This is the one we are most likely to use.

Next you have to catch the lift up to our floor, this is what the lift foyer on our floor looks like.  

Now I could show you photos of the empty rooms, but realistically they look like any other empty room, instead check out the balcony!  Down there you can see the tennis court as well as the garden and barbecue area.  In the background you can even see Etihad Stadium.

Milla has a pretty good view from her room, overlooking the garden and tennis court too.  If she looks out the side window, past the balcony, she can see the Bolte Bridge too.

The view in my room is a little different, you can see all the way from Port Phillip Bay in one direction, right around to Kensington in the other!  I didn't think to get a photo from my room but that's OK, this is just a sneak peek of our new place, soon we will have eleventy billion photos to show you.  

Right now mum and Milla are heading to Icehouse and I am heading back to Kensington with Dad to load up some stuff in the car and begin moving in.

Hooray for moving day!
Love AJ Pickle

Heading Home!

Instead of heading home after school today, mum and dad picked us up and we headed home!  I know that sounds kind of crazy but what I mean is that we didn't head to our Kensington home, instead we are headed into Docklands to collect the keys to our new apartment.

Look, there is our new building complex.  In a few short minutes we will have the keys and we will be headed home.  We can't wait!

Love AJ and Milla

Billy and the Wool!

You would think that having 2 kids of her own that mum would know that when there is a little kid in the house and the house is quiet, their is a fair chance that trouble is brewing.

Look what Billy did when he was playing quietly on his own!

I hope that mum has fun untangling all of the wool :-)

Love Princess George

The Day Someone Mooned a Stranger... Or not!

I wonder what would happen if one night someone was walking home with another person, who may (or may not) be a parent, and accidentally do a fart that was so stinky that the other person didn't want to walk with them any more?

Perhaps that other person would run away and hide. Then what would happen?  I guess the stinky person could continue to walk home alone or they could try to come up with a plan to be able to walk home together. Hmmm, let's see, what will make the stink go away?

I know. You could quickly pull down your pants, scoop the fart smell out and then keep on walking. You could do that.  It would be quick and easy to do.  It might even work.  It would be worth a try, right?

Well if you were to choose this path of action,  you may want to check that there isn't a stranger walking behind you who is going to get to see your bum, especially if said stranger has their phone out and could take a photo of aforementioned bare bum. That could possibly happen, right?

I wonder what one would have to search to see if a photo of their bum was in fact taken?

So many things a person has to contemplate these days. I wonder what would happen if such a scenario were true?

Love an inquisitive child. 

Going bush for Father's Day

In amongst all the crazy, we kinda almost nearly forgot about Father's Day.  Well we knew that it was Father's Day but we just didn't have time to plan anything special for the day.  When we found out that Ellen and Sarah were going for a hike at Werribee Gorge, we decided to join them after soccer, after all, the sun was shining and it is spring!

OK, all we really wanted to do was to get out and have some fun and we figured that we could show dad and the others the really cool beach that you get too by rock climbing above the river!

Of course we knew that there were going to be other great places to explore too, so first we set off up the hill.  It was steep and rocky but lots of fun.  There were some great lookouts to stop at for a rest.

Eventually we made it to the beach and stopped to have a picnic lunch.  We could have stayed there all day long but we were kind of excited o show everyone just how much fun it is climbing around the rocks high above the river.  

The grown ups were much more afraid than we were - we were able to climb the entire way without even needing the help of the guide rope!

Oh and in amongst all of the adventuring, we forgot to actually stop and get the obligatory Father's Day photo!  I guess this will have to do, to prove that we did actually have fun hanging out with Dad today. 

Thanks for being a great Dad and having fun adventures with us.  I hope we get to go on more adventures again soon.

Love the best kids in the world,

AJ and Milla xo

Tattoo ME

Everyone knows that you should love and respect yourself but every now and then it is easy to forget. With all of the crazy busy that has been happening around here lately, I thought I might need a little reminder so I wrote "I (heart) ME" on my hand. Of course I didn't have a shower before I went to bed and this happened...

Love Princess George

Pissed Off - a tutorial

How to get the whole family pissed off in just a few easy steps.

1. Get Milla and I to do things just to annoy each other.  
2. Make sure Milla is really annoyed.
3. Milla will run to mum and tell her what happened.
4. I get in trouble for annoying Milla. 
5. Milla gets in trouble for dobbing.  
6. We are half way there... we are both pissed off!
7. Continue to annoy each other because we are pissed off.
8. That makes mum get pissed off.  
9. When mum gets pissed off, it pisses off dad.  
10. Then dad keeps getting pissed off because mum is pissed off at him for no reason.

And there you have it - how to piss off the entire family in 10 easy steps!

Does anyone know how to get the whole family un-pissed-off really quickly?

Love AJ Pickle

PS - luckily this doesn't happen all the time, just every now and then :-)