5 night cuzzie sleepover with the Hekes!!

These school holidays started off with a bang for us as we went straight from the madness of 3 late nights of school production to a 5 night cuzzie sleepover at the Hekes. Mell & Jo celebrated their 10 year wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago so Mell decided to surprise Jo by booking a trip to Melbourne!!

So after I finished work at 1:30pm on Friday afternoon it was straight home to pack & then over to Summerland to pick up the 3 big kids and then on to fetch Dallsy. 

They all wanted to head over to the park straight after that so since it was holidays & we had absolutely NOTHING on the agenda, their wish was my command!! They started off at the playground & then gravitated towards the skatepark where they pretended to scooter around & do tricks on their imaginary scooters lol

Our first "family" pics :) Just a little bit excited to be together!!!

When we were leaving Dalls did a no 2 in the toilets & there was no toilet paper to wipe afterwards!! And then we hopped in the car & Ella's nose started bleeding! So it was a quick drive home to get some paper to sort out both problems!!

On Saturday Grandie came over to "help" out so we went down to Birdwood park & the kids played around & we had a basketball shooting comp (where everyone was pretty equally shocking!)

After about an hour Grandie suggested that it was probably time to go home for some ice cream and fruit salad for afternoon tea :) We probably could've gotten at least another couple of hours out of the park but the kids were happy with the sound of icecream so off we went...

This little Missy came to me & said that she had weed in her shorts but luckily we still had her bag from daycare in the car so I got her changed into these overalls & then she went around telling everyone she was "Dennis ma nenace"

I brought over some church clothes that Spence had grown out of for Seffy. Check out this handsome dude :)

3 handsome boys! Unfortunately Mac had already taken his shoes off by then, but he had worn these church clothes 

to church with Faiths bright purple & too big for him, Nikes lol....

he couldn't find his shoes in the morning & we were running late so I was just like whatever! Put them on & get in the car!! 

We found his shoes out by the tramp later on after church - totally soaking from all the rain :( 

 Trying to get a nice pic of them all in their church clothes

Dalls was in the door & straight to the room to get her comfys on...her mum's trained her well lol

This little chatterbox told me the whole story of Goldilocks & the 3 bears while I made her porridge for lunch

Our Sunday afternoon quiet time craft

Pod with all her creations

All pink errthang for Dalls

This was what the table looked like every night with all the plates layed out for 6 mouths to feed....

Mell chose really good quick & easy dinners to feed the masses too! My boys thought they were super yummy having cheese & everthing on them so they had second helpings of all of them. Ella is definitely her mother's daughter and was the pickiest mouth to feed!

 10 pen bowling at Xtreme

Spence couldn't get enough of snuggles with Pod & wherever she would sit on the couch, he'd be right there next to her

Off to see the Emoji movie. Best cartoon I've seen in ages. All of us chose bulk bins lollies except for Ella who chose tic tacs! I felt sorry for her so gave her some of mine, but Mell said she really loves them & has done it before haha

Walking through the mall...so cute!

When I dropped Dalls off in the morning & asked what she wanted for her treat after kindy she said "something pink" so she was super chuffed with her pinky bar 

Back to the colouring station. These colouring in books were worth their weight in gold. 
We just left them on the table & they would wander up & have a colour between their tramp & movie rotations

Ella was dying for her chicken nuggets so we made burgers with them on the last night & she was like a pig in mud

Snapchats with Dalls every morning

Man I was so happy to be home & not living out of bag anymore, but I've really missed my other 4 little people since Wednesday! Was so cool to get to spend some cuzzie & aunty time together and make some super special memories like that!

Pod's production

A couple of days after Spency's birthday we were lucky enough to go & watch Pod in her first school production :) Their school is so big that they were split into two groups to perform the early or the late show each night so unfortunately we didn't get to see both the girlies in our screening, but Pod did such a great job & we can't wait to see Ella when they do their next production in a couple of years time!

Cutest little guard at Buckingham Palace I ever did see!!

Then after the show Aunty Mell & the other 3 little monkeys came up to meet us before they dropped Ella off for the night show so we got to go up & see where Aunty Mell's new classroom is :)

Man I should've taken a photo of the inside for you cause it'd have to be the cleanest most spacious classroom you ever did see! How my little (big) sissy is so organized & onto it as well as being a Mummy to four kids I'll never know!!

Taking a pic in Pod's class

Then afterwards I'd promised the boys Subway for dinner, but boy did that not go smoothly!! We went down to the Lincoln Road subway, but Spence was coughing heaps & then all of a sudden said he needed to spew, so with nowhere to go we went back out to the car & he did a massive one right behind the car parked next to ours!! Man I felt so bad cause someone would've come back to their car & been disgusted at the massive chunks of american hotdog that were over the ground everywhere!! :(

So then he had to sit holding a lunch box all the way home just in case he needed to do anything again & all the while Mac was crying for his subway that we hadn't managed to get in time before the whole spewing fiasco!! 

Anyway, by the time we got back to the Shore, Spence's coughing had calmed down & he'd fallen asleep, so I told Mac I could take him to the Glenfield Subway, but he'd have to go inside & order it himself cause I couldn't leave Spence in the car all alone. 

He so badly wanted the subway, but he totally wasn't confident enough, so after trying to convince him for ages & getting really annoyed that he wouldn't just do it, I got out of him that it was because the car was parked too far away, but that if I parked in the park right out the front he could handle it! Phew....

So I watched from inside while my little man went in shyly & started moving along the line (he was too short for me to actually see his head, but I could see his body through the gaps!)

And then he FINALLY came out super chuffed that he'd gotten what he'd been DYING for the last hour & a half lol

Then it was home to bed to call it a night - & quite an eventful one at that :)

Unfortunately this is how our poor little Spider spent the next 3 or 4 days coughing so much the spew bowl became his bestie :(

Pod's 4th Birthday Party

We had such a fun day today at Pod's 4th birthday party! We've been looking forward to it all week so Mac was super excited when we woke up this morning & today was finally the day :)

I have to say I really do love kid's party food - & I'm pretty sure that'll still be the case even when I'm 80 something! You just can't beat a good old sausie roll, caramel popcorn & burger rings. You can always count on Aunty Mell to put on the meanest spread!! xx