Christmas Day

Mads loves her present

New top and  Boden skirt - very Christmassy

"Any one for baubles" 

Trying out little sister's bed

Hil's first drink for 9 and a half months

Maggie Beer's beef recipe

... and her salad recipe too

Mads has made a happiness trumpet for Matt.

A moment's break amid the Christmas rush

 

Matt is happier already

Mads's beautifully composed painting

Proud recipients of Mads's painting

Mere and Caspie demonstrate their signing skills

Mads gets her longed for flippers

A man happy with his presents

 

Christmas Eve at the Children's Garden

Sunday before Christmas

Another rainy Sunday morning and it's back to the Myer windows but this time with Mads who we haven't seen for a year.

 

 

Then there's time to check out the wonders of Christmas Square aka City Square

 

While we join the folk waiting for the gingerbread display to open

 

At last we're in and admiring gingerbread in all imaginable formations

Including Luna Park

 

Tonight we caught up with the cousins at Itali.Co and I had my three grandchildren in the same room for the first time.

 

Matt meets his new niece Romy

Arpa eyes off Matt's slice of gorgonzola pizza

Sharing yummy pizzas and salad

For dessert there's chocolate pizza

Seems too good to be true

Licking the plate's how you tell

Can we come to Itali.Co every night?

Jet lagged Mads has left us

And Romy never got started



Goodnight Beamii

 

 

Pilfered Pics

These photos of Romy, taken by her other grandmother,  are so much better than mine that I've appropriated them for this blog. Hope you don't mind, Sheila.

Launching Ruby

"Ruby: the adventures of a travel bug" is a wonderful new children's book written and illustrated by Sean Cox, our nephew.
We attended the launch today in Brunswick.

The book

The author

The original artworks were on sale and I chose one that might be nice for Romy's room.

 

Treasurers Freya & Orlando did the sums

Ruby-themed cakes came in all shapes and sizes

 

 

There were speakers...

 

 

and a reading of the story

Adult guests enjoyed the story too.