Saturday Fun

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Today I spent the entire day hanging out with Max and my adorable niece Ava.

Seeing as I am Ava's funniest Aunt (so much fun that apparently she doesn't think that I'm a grown up and double checks everything with her Mum to find out if I actually know what I'm talking about or if I am just making stuff up again...) I decided to plan a super-fun day for the three of us.

We started the morning off with the Big Man's famous pancakes. Even Max thinks they are delicious.


Then we hit the town.

First stop was the petting zoo. Ava had an absolute ball patting all the baby animals, watching the baby chickens in their cage, getting licked by a calf and watching a piglet having a bottle. Max really enjoyed it to, I think he was itching to get in amongst the animals and touch them.


Next up we headed to a huge indoor playcentre. Max and Ava both had a blast here. Max even got to experience his first time down a slide. He loved it so much that he started laughing, so cute!


We topped it all off by heading to Hungry Jacks for a late lunch and more playtime.


We're back home now, both Max and Ava went down for naps without any fuss at all and are still sound asleep two hours later. Bliss.

It was such a fun day, I can't wait to do it all again some time soon.

My First Smiley Saturday!

Every Saturday one of my favourite bloggers - Lightening - has a Smiley Saturday post, where she writes about something that is worth smiling about. I have been meaning to write my own Smiley Saturday post for ages.... so here it is!

The best thing I have done all week was to go to Dreamworld with my Sister (J), our Dad and J's Daughter Ava. All four of us had a great day, but I think Ava (she's three years old) probably had the most fun of all of us.

'Pappy' (my Dad) and Little Miss Ava on the train at the very start of the day.

Little Miss A had such a great time feeding all of the baby animals, it was soooo cute!

Isn't she gorgeous!?

J has recently lost 10 kilos thanks to Optifast, I am inspired :)

For me this was the stand-out highlight of the day.... when it was Ava's turn to have her photo taken with Dora the Explorer she ran up to her and hugged her like she was a long lost friend. It was adorable, there was even a group 'awwww' as she did it. She wasn't really interested in turning around to have her photo taken she was too busy chatting away a-mile-a-minute to Dora. She did turn around eventually and the photographer got a gorgeous shot of her!

J had a great time on the Blue's Clues ride..... I think it was designed for kids J!!

I took Ava for a ride on the Carousel.....

Hehe, Dad and J didn't actually watch this ride before they hopped on and weren't expecting it to go upside down :) Ava said to me, 'Why are they screaming? Have they been naughty?'. It was very tempting to say yes, yes they have...

We had such a great day!! Happy Smiley Saturday everyone :)

T xx