Thriller

On the last week of term Mac had his school production called "The Bayview Beat" which was a time travel kind of storyline that had a magic genie & a group of kids travelling through the 60's/70's/80's & 90's. It was such a fun production, full of so much cool music & dancing - & what made it even more awesome is that Mac's class got to do what I reckon was probably the coolest song of the whole night....cause everyone knows you can never top the king of pop right??!! & Thriller is a classic!!!

The kids did such an amazing job & I got to help out doing the girls hair on the first two nights before Spence & I went to watch it on the third & final night. Was so cool getting to meet all the girls in Mac's class cause I've never had anything to do with them up until now. Mac only ever hangs with the boys so they're all I really know :) Don't they all look awesome!! (Thank goodness for a hairdresser Mum & another Mum that was awesome at the face painting!)

When I go into Mac's class in the mornings this is always the usual sight - all the kids crowded around either the computer or 

any of the other devices they have in the classroom

This is Matt, my friend Julie's son. Mac's doing both his swimming lessons with him this term :)

The girl on the right, Ally, had the most gorgeous hair! 

(Her Mum was the hairdresser who did all the girls cool styles)

My little zombie - so glad he finally came around to ripping & dying his old church shirt for the costume after weeks of crying & saying that he wasn't gonna do the production cause he didn't want to ruin any of his clothes!!! (Too bad he never cares about his clothes at home always leaving them strewn & crumpled up all over the place!)

Mac & his bestie River - this was in the middle of them doing the zombie naenae lol

After one of the late production nights I went into his room & he hadn't quite made it into his bed lol

Pics from the show - wish we were allowed to take video footage!!

Mac was one of 6 kids down on the floor instead of up on the stage - & at the beginning of the song he & the others creeped out from the little doors down under there which was pretty cool - was a little harder to see him down there though, even though we were only 3 rows back...but he did such an awesome job anyways! It's definitely one of my favourite things as a Mum, getting to see him perform like that :) :)

It's not a great photo cause I only caught her with her eyes closed lol, but that's Mac's teacher, 

Miss Matuku, below on the right..

Was super cool getting to have Aunty Jose come along to watch the show too!!

I was in the middle of a terrible coughing bug, by the time Thursday night rolled around when we went to watch the show. I was pretty much coughing & dying the whole night, but am so glad I made it through to the end....even if it was only just!!

Can't wait to see what cool production Bayview comes up with next in 2017! And by then my little Spency Spider will be in it too!!

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 :(