A day at The Collingwood Children's Farm and the Abbotsford Convent.

I really enjoyed patting the goats. I loved to chase them all around the paddock too!

I just HAD to have a sit on the tractor!!!

I enjoyed one of my favourite foods from the Convent Bakery - PIZZA!! Daddy couldn't resist the organic beer from Healsville! Mummy & Ollie couldn't resist the bagettes!!

There was lots happening at the Convent today. They had a produce market on and a mexican man playing some cool music. I joined in and played some of the percussion instruments and even had a go at the bongos.

Happy 3rd Birthday too me!!!

My Por Por's friend made me this wonderful cake!!! It has a fisherman and a boat on it!

For my birthday, Mummy & Daddy got me nice wooden tool bench and a car play mat.

Art for Food.

Today, Mummy & I went with Daddy to support him and some other artists from BLENDER studios in a charity art competition held at Federation Square run by Art for Food. Groups of artists get together to raise money for the homeless. The aim of the competition was to combine 3 canvases, each artist is then allocated either the head, torso or legs and are given 1 hour to complete an artwork. At the end the Head, torso and legs are joined to make the: Exquisite Corpse.

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Regan & Drew: artists from Blender Studios.

Watching and giving moral support to Daddy.

Adding my brilliant artistic touches to Daddy's canvas.

Me with Drew and Joe: from Blender studios.

Matt Lawry is a poet and is adding a poem to go with Daddy's canvas ink drawing.

The final product! Artists are: Regan, my Daddy, and Adrian Doyle.

Sitting on Adrian Doyle's lap, cheering and all the artists involved.

Judging time!

And to our amazement - my Daddy, Regan & Adrian's Exquisite Corpse won 1st prize!!! I was very excited I kept giving all the Blender Artists Hi-5's!!!

Daddy & I with the artists from Blender studios. These will be my Daddy's new 'colleagues' next year when he finishes being a teacher at the end of the year to become a FULL TIME ARTIST!! Daddy has a new studio set up at Blender.
I had so much fun today!!!

Being Maternal.

Ever since baby Claudia came to visit I have discovered my maternal side. I am now calling my 'Lambie' my 'Baby'. I have blanket for him, put him to bed and I even give him milk from a bottle just like Ollie does. I even borrow one of Mummy's handbags and go shopping for baby food. I take my car, my Baby and my handbag with me go to "the Shops". I am looking forward to my next baby coming in November!!! I like to rub Mummy's tummy and give the Baby kisses. I say to Mummy, "like a big ball inside Mummy's tummy, me need to bounce it like a ball! Baby coming out soon, me need to bounce it, up and down, like a ball!"

Getting Clucky!

To my Mummy's surprise I was soooo taken by baby Claudia when they came to visit the other day. I wanted to hold her on my lap and I didn't want to give her back to her Mum. I kept saying 'so cute'!
I was upset when they went home - Mummy told me that I will get to hold Mummy's new baby soon - as much as I want. Later, I even tried to put Ollie on my lap - but it wasn't the same as a tiny newborn! - Ollie is nearly heavier than me and he doesn't keep still!

I took this photo of Julia, Claudia's older sister - she is 3 years old.

Modelling Debut...

...not me, Mummy!!!

Mummy was asked to model a friend's new maternity demin jeans for their latest catalogue. Miletta
Daddy, Ollie & I came along and supported Mummy while she had to get her photo taken - alot!!!

I brought along my fishing gear and boat from home to keep me occupied!

And Ollie had a nap in the pram!

And I did some drawing too as you can see the mess I made of the gallery.

Daddy took this outside photos of me while were at the photo shoot.

My yellow 4WD!

My Por Por & Goong Goong bought me this fantastic yellow 4WD! It's like a real car! It has a foot pedal for exceleration and a forward and reverse button! It also has indicators and a horn. It has a police siren on the back too! I LOVE IT!! I need more space to drive this 4WD though - I will have to ask someone to take me to a parking lot to do some doughies and really take it for a spin!
As you can see I HAVE to put the boat at the back of my new car - Ollie gets a good ride too!

Names.

I know how to say my Mummy & Daddy' s names!

Today I went to Playhouse and one of the carers asked how my holidays were and I told her; "Daddy at home" (Mummy had to explain to the carer that Daddy had been on holidays and spent everyday day with me) Then I told my carer; "Daddy's name is Mikawl".
And tonight when I was having a chat with Daddy at bedtime, (Daddy & I have a private chat after storytime, I tell Mummy to go out of my room and ask Daddy to say in bed with me) Daddy asked me what Mummy's name was and I said; "Eewan"!

So what's my name I say? " MOWEE"

New Blog.

My Daddy has a blog of his own now! Check it out!

At the MOVIES

Daddy took me to see Ice Age 3 : Dawn of the Dinosaurs. I own Ice Age and I like to watch it all the time at home. My Por Por & Goong Goong have Ice Age 2 that I sometimes like to watch when I go and visit. This was my first experience at the cinemas. I managed to stay inside the cinemas the whole time. I didn't run around like the other kids did. I got really excited when the sound got loud! I liked to look behind me at the other people in the cinemas, I played with the arm chairs - I could move them up and down, I looked under the seats and best of all I ate lots of popcorn and drank lemonade! What a treat!!!

More boat play.

Creative play with my brother.

I am developing my imagination and this week I used the laundry basket and turned it into a boat. I asked Mummy to find a piece of string to tie it on the back of my ride-on car. Just like how Daddy attaches his boat onto the back of the 4WD. I wanted to take Ollie for a ride in the boat. I used the toliet paper holder and turned it into the motor for the boat. I found one of my Daddy's clips and attached it to the end of the toilet paper holder to make it like the propeller of the motor. I asked Mummy for something to turn the boat into a 'row boat'. She gave me 2 wooden spoons which I could use to row the boat with. I packed the boat with fishing gear - just like how Daddy does. I even asked Mummy for some squid for bait and looked in the freezer for some - Mummy says that I can only use the squid bait when I go 'real' fishing with Daddy. So I had to just make do with my squidges!

My latest project.

Getting some painting done at my Daddy's studio.

Corio Bay.

On Sunday, Daddy & I took the boat out to Corio Bay. The weather was nice. Mummy packed a nice lunch for us to take with us to have on the boat.
Daddy didn't catch anything but I caught a baby Whiting. I reeled it in myself and I even took it off the hook and had a lovely time examining the little fishie before I set it free to grow up to be a bigger fish!