Posted in School hols on January 17th, 2010 3 Comments »
What to do on a wet and windy summer Saturday? Get out the paints and get messy! We spent two hour’s on Saturday morning stepping in plates of paint and then soaking our feet in buckets of warm, soapy water to create a huge ‘Welcome’ banner for Grandma and Granddad’s arrival from the [...]
Posted in Special Day on December 24th, 2009 3 Comments »
It’s here! The children have been asleep for hours and went without wanting stories and much earlier than normal (Charli even tidied her room!). They have been incredibly excited and there is so much magic in the air.
We have (I have) spent most of the day making a ginger-bread house…
The girls started off [...]
Posted in Charlotte, Sophie on October 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
This Labour weekend we enjoyed the wonderful company of Steph and Francis (multi-talented nannies, early child-hood educators, superb baby-sitters and house-sitters). They stopped by for a BBQ on Sunday ‘avo along with an old friend of ours, John, who has recently returned to Welly for a while. John brought his son, Billy, with [...]
Posted in Sophie on October 28th, 2009 4 Comments »
Sophie loves making playdough. Here’s her recipe, with step-by-step instructions.
2 cups flour
1 cup salt
2 tsp cream of tartar
2 cups water
4 tbsp vegetable oil
Vanilla essence (smells lovely)
Food colouring
Posted in Charlotte, Dan, Sarah, Sophie on October 17th, 2009 7 Comments »
The sausages were sizzling at Sophie’s Kindi Fair this morning. Dan and another Dad did a fabulous job of stoking the BBQ and selling around 300 bangers in the course of the morning. Thankfully the rain held off, with only a few drizzles, and no gale force winds to contend with. They [...]
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