10 More Weeks Til Christmas

Little Bambi at 2 years and 4 months

We had a weekend filled with catching up with my friends - from work (actually). 

On Friday, an ex-workmate invited us for a playdate at the park for Little Bambi and her son. I felt bad because while I had work that day, I could only get to the park at 6pm. So it was a pretty late playdate. We finished at the park at 7pm, and rushed home for a shower and dinner. It was still pretty fun.

Saturday we did the usual routine. All three of us headed to Chaddy at 8.20am. I went to the gym for the 8.30am RPM class, while Grumpy and Little Bambi went to McDonalds for breakfast and they did a Coles run together. In the evening, we invited some friends over for dinner, including Little-Miss-Sailing, a new friend I made at work. Little-Miss-Sailing is from the Hong Kong office and I thought it would be nice for her to come over instead of spending her weekends by herself. 

This morning, we drove all the way to Eltham to meet another ex-workmate (from my previous previous work) Little-Miss-Frenchie (she really is French) and her 4 month old baby at the farmer's market. While the market was not great, there was a nice big park which Little Bambi could play in. 

Grumpy and I have not been feeling 110% over the last week because of hayfever and a chest infection. I am getting better though, so lets hope next week will be a lot better! 

10 more weeks til Christmas! 8 more weeks til my mum arrives!

Picnic at the Tan

Little Bambi has been doing imaginary plays a lot lately. She pretends she is in a boat, in a train, in a plane, and most recently she has been playing pretend picnic!

Here is Little Bambi playing picnic in her
bedroom by herself, with all her toys.

And so... Grumpy and I decided to take her out for a REAL picnic, considering it is beautiful weather this weekend. He won a picnic basket from work about a year ago. I bought a picnic rug from last year's Christmas sale. So I am glad we are finally putting our picnic utensils into good use.

I googled 'Best picnic spots in Melbourne', and read up on local parks, places like Mt Dandenong etc. In the end, we decided on the Tan (the only place we were most familiar with, and also because we knew we would not be disappointed).

We packed our picnic basket the night before. And this morning, after my 8.30am RPM class in Chaddy, I stopped by at Aldi - picked up some cheese, crackers, dip and chocolate biscuits (for dessert). 

Here are some pictures from today.

Little Bambi munching on celery sticks with onion dip.

Trust Grumpy to bring the alcohol..

The vintage looking picnic basket Grumpy won from work. 

Cheers!

All three of us, captured in this photo.

Soaking up the sun.

Family portrait at the Tan

It was nice that Dopey and his girlfriend joined us too at our picnic. We laid on the grass, Little Bambi ran around on her bare feet, food was yummy, we played music from the iPad and Spotify, the temperature was still a bit cool by my standards (20 degrees celcius). Overall, the picnic today was absolutely perfect. 

Face Painting

The good news is that Grumpy has finished watching LOST! FINALLY! The bad news is that even though we both started out watching it together, I kind got lost myself with LOST, because it is so effing confusing and so, I have not been giving it my 110% attention and decided to sleep early that night (while he was watching the finale). 

I would like to watch the new season of Downton Abbey! I love Downton!

Last week was quite busy. I caught up with two old workmates. One of them was my old boss, whom I never used to like at the start, but after a while we both kinda just got along really well! I miss her so much! I really do, I love how open and honest we are with each other! My new boss is a guy, and its just not the same. He is nice and all, but we have yet to overcome the awkwardness of a professional working relationship.

Yesterday, at the last minute, I organised lunch at a german restaurant to celebrate Oktoberfest. There was face painting for kids, and so I asked the girl to paint Little Bambi as a cat. This has got to be one of the worst face paintings ever, but oh well, the girl that did it came personally to our table and offered it, which was a nice thing to do. When I said to Little Bambi 'Lets take a selfie', she saw her face and wanted to wipe it off immediately!

Okay, thats it for a Monday night!

XX
Jules