Happy 2nd Birthday Cheeky Monkey

Today our grandson Cheeky Monkey turned 2. Here are just a few snaps from the day.

Party boxes Trains for boys and Butterflies for the girls.

 Sammy Seal painted the wooden  trains and butterflies (bought at the Kaisercraft outlet here in Geelong) and I then decorated the noodle boxes and the wooden shapes. Roughly working out each noodle box costed around $3.00 including the lollies and toys we put inside them.

Train cake made by Nanny and Mummy.

 Base of cake is chocolate cake. The trains are vanilla cake and the mould was found at Big W. It is a sillicone muffin mould.

The Handy Mandy bike is a great hit.

Pop teaching Cheeky Monkey to play golf in the lounge room

Cheeky Monkey and his Mummy (sammy seal) having a major cuddle together.

As you can tell its been a full on day for the little man and enjoyable for all of us.

Till next time take care.

Nanny xo

Santa photo you now know it truly is Christmas

 Cheeky Monkey got his photo taken with Santa yesterday at Westfield.

 And this is a snap I took on my Iphone of the giant snow globe at Waurn Ponds.

I will catch you all again soon.

Nanny xo

Packed to the Rafters - day 4

There are times when seriously I should NOT have more money in my purse. As I not only went to Kaisercraft but Bunnings and bought some Blackboard paint.
I'm sure you are holding your breathe right now and wondering what it was that I decided to turn into a blackboard....keep me happy just nod your head please. :)

Well here you go the creation in pictures because I could see you were starting to turn a little blue there and I just can't afford to loose any blog followers right now if ever.

This and the bar bench divide our kitchen and dinning room. 

 We can't take the walls out as A) its an alcove for our fridge.
B) It's more then likely that they are load bearing and hold our ceiling up too.

After a wash with sugar soap 

Marking the lines for our chalkboard.?

I used blue painters tape to mark my work area. I just love this tape as it has no bleeding if applied correctly. Can stay there for up to 14 days if it has to how good is that?

The 1st coat of blackboard paint.

Once this is finished I think Cheeky Monkey is going to love it.
I am also hoping that he won't be drawing on any other walls.

Miss A and her parents are going home tomorrow so she wont have the pleasure of test driving this.

Nanny xo

The Sandpit for the Cheeky Monkey & FlogYoBlog Friday

Yesterday I went out and spent a little money at Toys R Us, Just because I could.
Our Grandson isn't 2 till December but I felt he needed a sandpit for when he comes over to Nanny and Pops place to play. So that's what he got LOL.

Cheeky Monkey's 1st try of the sandpit.

And this is the Cheeky Monkey 15minutes later

He wasn't to sure about the sand to start off with but once Nanny Had been in there for 5 minutes he loved it :)

Thought I would also have some fun and join in on FlogYoBlog Fridays.
Its Really Easy and the rules are here for it. http://www.rrsahm.com/2010/07/whip-crackin-blog-floggin-friday.html
Till next time I Blog take care and have a wonderful day.

Nanny