Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Christmas Mess Dinner and Strawberry Santas

These two went to a Black Tie Mess Dinner with the Sea Cadets.  In bed by midnight - wow, when did that bit of growing up happen?!


The other, smaller two made Strawberry Santas. Fun with a capital F!







 Panda Girl produced a brilliant plate of strawberry and cream santas....

The Boy ate most of his during the making process and also added a fair bit of 'snow'.

Then it all went slightly bonkers; everything was eaten and the leftover cream was used to make 'ice cream and coffee'.


Without prompting my two littlies then said "let's wash up for Mummy!"  They did a super job.  Gosh I love my children :)

Monday, 16 December 2013

One Week To Go!

One week until Christmas!

The Boy had a play-date with his friend first thing this morning and they did some important Christmas painting.


Yesterday The Boy and Papa made a Christmas bauble with bicarb, water and food colouring in preparation for today, so The Boy and his play-mate could use pipettes of vinegar to fizz it all away!

Big sisters are there to read stories.

I had some paperwork to do this afternoon and the kiddies worked so hard on their own with their workbooks.  The Boy occupied himself with Lego, painting and some activity books and we all had a brilliant, quiet afternoon in the classroom.

Trampolining lessons this evening.

Friday, 13 December 2013

A Day of Christmas-Making-Madness

Panda Girl received, amongst other things, a piping bag for her Birthday.  Monkey Girl is a little crazy about piping bags; probably because she's never had one, has tried valiantly to make one and has seen all the uber cool things one can do with one.  So the only thing to do was let her and Panda Girl have the run of the kitchen to test out the amaaazing piping bag.  :)

While the other girls made cakes, my eldest cleaned out the mouse house and the hamster house, cleaned out and dusted her room, and vacuumed upstairs - because she wanted to. I'm planning on an early retirement. 

We made a cute sparkly sort of tree today using rainbow explosion paper....




...pine cone Christmas trees...

...and Christmas puddings...

The Boy made a snowy scene...

Ballet Girl and Mummy used spray paint to make this...

...and The Boy chose and glued all the buttons on his snowman.

Panda Girl made a Christmas hat...

...Monkey Girl created this brilliant snowman decoration...

...and gradually the classroom became more and more chaotic!

The Boy made a 'holly grabber'.  I'm not entirely sure what that entails, but here is the finished product.  He was very proud.

Monkey Girl inevitably made a beard.  She does like to make the odd moustache and beard.  This one came with rose-tinted glasses.

Panda Girl spent a while transforming into Santa

...while Ballet Girl stitched a Christmas bag for her friend.

Finally our silver spray-painted pine cones completed our wreath.

We cleared up to the Benny Hill theme because it makes us work extra fast (!) and we finished the week with two hours of ballet lessons.

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

A Birthday Sort of Day

This beautiful one had a Birthday today. This is her at the exact hour & minute she was born, eight years on.

We celebrated with a trip out for hot chocolate and toasted sandwiches...

 ...and some festive fun


I love you so much Darling.

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Oranges and Sticks

Yesterday I cooked and dried some orange slices...

...and Papa drilled some holes in some sticks.  
Sounds like an odd day...

...but we did it so the children could make these cute Christmas decorations today!  They even have little bells on and they smell awesome too.


And then we used ribbons and the remaining sticks to decorate a tree in the garden.




This afternoon we took out 50 library books, took our car to the garage to watch our two front tyres get changed, Ballet Girl wrote a beautiful Christmas story, Monkey Girl read for hours and this evening Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl have gone rock climbing. All in a day's work :)