A great start to the Holidays

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Well the kids finished up school and now have nearly 6 weeks holidays to look forward to. I’m excited too – I love having the girls home and not having to do the 3pm pick-up and then running them around to their after school activities. This afternoon we headed to the beach and for the first time since living in this seaside town (16 years) I actually went in the surf. I always loved swimming at the beach but in latter years have just been content to watch the girls. However, I am turning over a new leaf and determined to participate more in life. Only problem I didn’t get many photos – and none of the girls on their boggie boards. They are so confident in the surf now and Christy has become real good on her board (in fact I think it’s time to upgrade her to the next model). I can see us heading to the beach a lot more this Summer.

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A visit from the Toothfairy

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Christy was so excited tonight as her first tooth came out. Well, once she got over the shock of blood (she had inadvertantly knocked it out) so got excited. She had been given a little fairy stick to go in pot plants but she decided to put it out as a signal for the toothfairy to come and collect her tooth. In the morning she as pleased as punch to discover her tooth gone and $4 in it’s place. I thought she’d take it straight to the canteen at school to spend it but she surprised me by putting it in her money box – but that could be cause the canteen is out of her favourite snacks (due to end of year).

Reindeers, sleighs and spiders

Interesting title for a post I know but I really just wanted to share some photos that were taken yesterday.

Firstly when the girls (and a friend) came home from school they made these cute little candy cane reindeers. The girls had used up all our craft eyes so they improvised with buttons. You can find the instructions here.

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Later Christy made a sleigh for her reindeer to pull.

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And lastly a stick spider. It’s been on our back patio for about a week. It’s been eating mosquitos so we’ve adopted him as our pet and he’s allowed to stay. Pretty cute isn’t he?

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