Dear Chibi,

This year we decided to farewell 2022 with a fun night out at Fairfield’s Illuminate New Years Eve event, which makes it our first time taking P-chan out for the New Years Eve fireworks. It was a fabulous evening of free carnival rides, food trucks, entertainment, jetpack shows, performances and of course the 9.30pm fireworks! The kids got free lightsabers which proved to be quite a hit.

Dear Chibi,

Our favourite time of the year has arrived again ^.^ Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas from our family to yours :)

Continuing our annual family tradition, here’s our first Christmas tree photo in our new home <3

It’s been a big, busy month full of fun and festivity! Here’s a snap shot of some of the things we got up to in chronological order:

‘Under the Sea’ themed Family Day

Kaz invited us to her corporate family day event for the second year! P-chan enjoyed lots of free food, popcorn, fairy floss, seahorse balloon twisting, ball pit toddler play area, petting zoo, a photobooth, met Santa and received a present to take home! The decorations were on point! Thanks Aunty Kaz!

Dear Chibi,

The end of year is always an exciting time, and this year I got to bring P-chan and Hubby to my company’s Family Day event held at Sydney’s Luna Park! :D It was our first time coming here as a family, and P-chan’s first amusement park experience. I was so excited for this!!

My company had booked out the entire park for the day, though it was split into two sessions. We went to the morning one since it had more activities for younger kids~ petting zoo, face painting, balloon twisting, Santa etc~ though we end up skipping all of that XD. There’s just so much to see and do and not enough time ^^” Gotta try the rides, right?

First up, the Carousel :D

P-chan loved this so much he didn’t want to get off ^^” Who could blame him?

Dear Chibi,

Last month (oh my, it’s December already?), we went away to celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary with family time at the beach. We stayed at Pelican in the city of Lake Macquarie and explored some lovely local beaches. P-chan had an absolute blast splashing in the waves. His big beautiful smile says it all <3

Dear Chibi,

On our final day of our trip, we took P-chan to the Early Start Discovery Space in Wollongong for a play. It was really really cool! I wish this museum was closer to home so I can come here with P-chan all the time. So much to explore and lots of different play spaces. Here are just a few snapshots from the day:

“Hello?”

Shopping time!

Dear Chibi,

We spent the next day at the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere for “A Day Out with Thomas”. We were here just 6 months ago, but this event was all about P-chan’s favourite show, so we had to visit again :D We arrived early to avoid the busy crowd and queues and end up staying for 6 hours of fun! So glad the weather held up for us.

A picture with Thomas after tooting his whistle in the driver’s cab. It was playing lots of upbeat Thomas songs but they were all new gen XD. Need some more love for the original.

Next up we went for the mini train rides. P-chan enjoyed it very much and wanted to go on it again and again. Thankfully the lines weren’t too bad at this time so we went three times XD.

Dear Chibi,

Last weekend we went down south to Wollongong for 3 days to celebrate my birthday :) I like to think of it as a joint birthday getaway, but Hubby insists to make it all about me. Feeling a lot of love from my boys. Thank you to everyone who wished me a ‘Happy Birthday’ too :)

We started the day with a delicious breakfast at our local cafe. P-chan enjoyed his babyccino very much ^.^