hands

Two hands with treasures at the Botanic Gardens.

top family

Top family at the tippy-top of the toppest tower in Melbourne - the Eureka Tower. I could not bear to watch Ella and Jamie throwing themselves against the windows in excitement.

party dresses

At the National Gallery. Ella and Poppy taking a short break between face-painting all the guests at my birthday party.

boy with bean

Rare to go out with one and not two small people. Ella stayed home to help Dad with an important 'secret' project. Jamie came with Mum, Auntie and Nana to ACCA to see The Waterhole, was fed jellybeans and tickled and chased.

let's dress up

A pirate shop-keeper and a tree-climbing clown. A small boy sweltering in his clown-suit which he insisted upon wearing around the Botanic Gardens.

hoteliday ---<>--- christmas

Tamara and Ella's Recipe for a Hoteliday*

Take:

one girl

one mummy

one hotel room

one christmas 'tivities' plan

some chips

some fizzies

one spa bath

lots of little hotel packets

some fabulous outfits

a surprise auntie

Method

mix it all up - have lots of cuddles - discuss everything - befriend people - take a taxi and a tram - read in bed together - get room service

The mum and girl should be exhausted by end and ready for quiet night in and a bit of regular bedtime.

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This recipe is quite adaptable actually - any combination should be great - as long as you don't miss out the little hotel packets.

*Hoteliday = a holiday in a hotel for a day

you spin me round round

Here is Ella at Kinder for the last time. So beautiful - dressed up to the nines - spinning a full circle on the trapeze and yelling to her friend Felicity to 'leap onto me!'