Review: Disney's Tangled

Oh what would the school holidays be without an extra mortgage on the house so you can pay to go to the movies?  Jokes aside, it is an expensive little exercise with us spending over $100 to see the movie, get popcorn and drinks.

So I was feeling rather frugal and decided we had perfectly good sweets and popcorn at home - I love these nudie snack cups and they were $2.50 for 3 of them this week at Woolies so I stocked up!

We took popcorn, jellies, marshmallows, lollipops and some fruit.  And of course our drinks...

Some very excited girls ready for the movie to start!

Now Tangled is something that is at the top of every pre-teen girl must-see-movie list and hubby had promised that the week's good behaviour would be rewarded.   So we headed to the cinema, picked up our tickets and headed to our seats.   Soon enough another family with two girls sat beside us and the father joked with hubby in a very sarcastic tone: 'Have you been hanging out for this one too?'

These poor daddies of girls, they are subject to so much - barbie, my little ponies and disney princesses..

The movie as you might already know is about Rapunzel - who is stolen and locked away from her parents, the king and queen in a hidden fortress.   Now this Disney adaptation does divert from the original - and it is I have to say it - perfectly charming.  There's singing but not so much you are cringing.

In fact, one of my favourite scenes is at the Snuggly Duckling where we meet the pub thugs:

Hubby laughed SO hard in this movie.  I wondered at the end of it who enjoyed it more, him or the kids!  So it turns out in this case, Daddies don't have it so hard...

I enjoyed it too, it's a great holiday movie and something I would recommend taking your kids to - save the money (go on a Tuesday or half price day) make a day of it, pack your own popcorn and ENJOY.

A Month In Review: May 2009

What we did:

• We started being an at-home family again - Mummy not working, kids not going to kindy
• Nanny started coming to visit us again every Tuesday (we love that!)
  We started going to the library
• We started back at playgroup
• We had a birthday party for Eloise
  
  

Milestones:

• Olivia wrote her name for the first time with just mummy calling out the letters, and her writing them (wow!)
• And also Olivia learned how to whistle!
• We've had more dry than wet overnight nappies from everyone!
• Eloise is getting very clever with adding and subtracting
• Eloise did her first handstand!
• Laura is getting MUCH better with her speech, her stutter has improved a lot too.
• Dougall has only had average 1 accidents in the house a week. Pretty good, has now worked out how to tell us he needs to go outside.

A month in Review - April 2009

What we did:
We welcomed our new puppy Dougall into the family
Dug out the remainder of our vegetable garden
Celebrated Easter
Got a new separate freezer
Started preserving
Had my mother-in-law come to stay with us

Milestones
Laura - can count up to 12 unassisted

Olivia - has had dry nights for the past 2 weeks

Eloise - has counted up to 149 (and then she got bored) is starting to copy words out of books and read them.

A month in Review - March 2009

What we did:
Celebrated Lachlan's 5th birthday

Went to Canberra and to attend Andy and Liz's long awaited nuptuals.

Caught up with the lovely Cath and the boys in Canberra too - wonderful.

Finished up my short-term work contract

Celebrated Nanny's 77th birthday

Completed 1/2 of our rotating crop vege garden

Milestones:

Laura:

Speech has improved a lot, announciating a lot more.

Verbal reasoning has also improved, still a little stuttering when exciting, but becoming less and less.

Grew 2cm in one month! For the first time, taller than Olivia!

Olivia:

Becoming less anxious around new people, noticed it alot in Canberra, still standoffish but not anxious.

Olivia's been unwell a few times this month which is unusual - with both a cough and a virus.. all good now!

Eloise:

Can count to, and recognise numbers to 100 (and beyond)

Getting better with the backwards S and E's.

Had first 'home-haircut' and loved it! (she was really good and still too!)

Has decided wants to have a Barbie Themed Birthday party.

A month in Review - February 2009

What we did:

• Went to Gold Coast for a mini-Gold-Coast Holiday
• Caught up with Auntie Lyn in Bangalow
• Caught up with Uncle Peter and some of our friends in Brisbane
• Caught up with my Godmother Gainor and family, and friends on the Gold Coast
• Went to Dreamworld
• I got and started a new job (3 week contract but meh!) after almost 3 months off work
• Got very sick of the rain, which I think out of 28 days of this month it has rained 24. ergh.

Milestones:

Laura

• Transitioned (mostly) to doing all poos in the toilet
• Wearing undies daytimes 100% even going out!
• We started doing 'homework' with Kindy this month
• Started 'Mighty-Mites' at Kindy this month
• 99cms tall on 21st (3 years 2 months)

Olivia

• Transitioned (mostly) to doing all poos in the toilet
• Wearing undies daytimes 100% even going out!
• We started doing 'homework' with Kindy this month
• Started 'Mighty-Mites' at Kindy this month
• 99cms tall on 21st (3 years 2 months)

Eloise

• Starting to get some of her letters the right way (as opposed to backwards due to being a lefty)
• Starting to understand the concept of counting to 100 (i.e. twenty, thirty, forty etc.)
• Small improvement in arguing, but screaming has become a new issue
• Started 'Mighty-Mites' at Kindy this month
• She's not using the word 'hate' as much (well pretty rarely) but now I realise I have probably been dropping too many f and s bombs as at times I will hear her repeating what I have said.. eek. bad mummy.
• Big gains on general attitude, positive reinforcement is working on the whole

A month in Review - January 2009

What we did:

• Had lovely family time in Christmas Break
• Many days in the backyard wading pool and trampoline
• Experienced very hot weather
• Did a lot of farmgate trailing
• Visited the Flying Fox park for the first time
• Spent some time with cousins
• Had a visit from Nine
• Met Uncle Peter
• Went back to Kindy
• Daddy became a year older

Milestones

Laura:

• Started pre-school (became a koala 06.01.2008)
• First day in undies without an accident (30.01.2008)
• First poos in the potty 24.01.2008

Olivia

• Started pre-school (became a koala 06.01.2008)
• Started wearing undies part-time and pull-ups the rest of the time

Eloise
Well actually we need to do some work with Eloise - her behaviour needs some work. I'm hoping by next month-end update I can report that the arguing, backanswering and domineering will improve. It's upsetting me greatly but I've probably not been as consistent as I need to be. She also needs to be separated from Evan at Kindy, he is a terrible influence, the latest is the word 'hate'. She knows now through many times in the naughty corner at home that is not a word I want her to use :(