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| Our quickly made Christmas Cake as decorated by themselves. |
Liam is still threatening to cancel Christmas - nothing much changes there ;) This year however the kids, with an additional year of wisdom behind them, have told him that he will need to stay in his room with just water and a book if he is cancelling it and they will open his presents!! Still not sure who was more serious or excited.
December has seen us travelling quite a bit. To start the month off we enjoyed our first un-schoolers camp over the hill in Staveley. It was great to be with other families that although on a different journey still had much in common with us. The kids loved running around with all the others, climbing trees and going on bush walks. Only stayed the one night however it was enough for us to know that we would be back again to mix, talk and share with like-minded families. Think it was great too that Dads were there as often it is the Mama's always getting together and giving information out second-hand ;)
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| Daniel up yet another tree! He wanted to climb every one that he could on camp. |
After this we headed over to Christchurch for an unveiling of a Kiwirail statue. It is the 150 year anniversary so a special installation statue was created for all to see at Ferrymead. Great to get free entry for the event and then get to look around, ride on the trains, sample sherbet and play olden day games. I hadn't been there for years and years so really lovely to revisit some memories. Then the following weekend proved to be our only at home for the whole month! The kids and Liam got out into the garden to check over everything that is growing. It has been great getting all our own salad bits along with peas and the odd early strawberry. Still waiting for the tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers and beetroot to mature so we can continue our feasting.
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| Seeing what is coming up in our new front garden veggie beds. |
The middle of the month saw us back in Christchurch for a send off to Branston Intermediate (the school I used to teach at which is a casualty of the Christchurch School closures). It was great to have a night out with friends, even made it past mid-night, and the kids loved being with Nan without parents to turn off the T.V. You can tell I don't go out much these days though as by Sunday night I was in bed by 7pm!! Before both kids were even asleep. Further in our travel feast of December - last weekend we were up in Westport to catch up with friends and family. The kids were in heaven going out to so many cafes in one weekend and of course getting to watch T.V. again in our holiday accommodation. Great to be able to go away with the dog too and we (the dog and I that is) had a good long run around the lighthouse track which was my extra treat in a month of holidays!!
During our weeks at home Jasmine has been busy at Art Club creating and making. She enjoyed all the art however she tells me that she can't wait to get back to Pippins because they have lots of different cool things ;) Next year she will be stepping up to Brownies which she is looking forward to although I'm not sure if she realises that it will be more work than at Pippins - oh well ignorance it bliss at times ;)
Liam has been giving the kids lots of Star Wars stories for bedtime lately and it has inspired a whole heap of stories, drawings, Lego play and craft! The best activity to come out of all the story telling would have to be when the kids made their own C3PO and R2D2 after Liam showed them a YouTube clip of both the robots. It was amazing to see them go ahead and make what they had visualised in their minds and just make it without any assistance - well apart from handing them cello tape that is ;)
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| The robot friends. Herself even managed to create R2D2's wheels with bottle caps! |
Hope this finds you all warm, merry and ready for a relaxing Christmas and New Year.
Arohanui
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