Christmas Parties (Stars Kindy & Aeroview Ward Carols Night)

Aeroview Ward Christmas Carols Party....brilliant idea, thanks for the invitation Leone Family

The nativity and Santa's Grotto were both so so so well done

Faith loves the big red guy who gives out presents.......

Seth not so much....and Ella went really quiet and backed up behind me until she almost fell off the back of the stage

Stars Kindy Christmas Party (+ Nativity Show)

Ella had to be in party clothes or cultural dress so we combined the two, a christmas maori girl!

Seth was even party of the show. His Tui Room did 3 christmas songs

Ella's room did a christmas song with the letters of Christmas 

Seth got his first 2 hot wheels cars ever, and we managed to make it home without losing them yet

Waiting for Santa to call her name......super super nervous

He called her name and she burst into tears and clung onto my leg for about 5 minutes before I could jolly her up to open the present

The shared lunch afterwards was delish. ....between my egg and salad sandwiches, and a passionfruit cheesecake that some lovely person brought, I was in heaven!

And the girls chowed down on cupcakes, cheerios and corn chips....full tummies all round

Seth brought home a little stapled bag that was full of special things he's made the last couple of weeks

2 christmas parties down, now I think we've got our nursery christmas party on Sunday, Daddy Joe's birthday on Monday, Christmas Eve with the Heke's on Tuesday, Christmas on Wednesday and then we can breathe a sigh of relief that it's all done for another year! But I do love it all!

Last few weeks of Summerland for 2013

Here's a few pics from the last few weeks of school for Faithy as a Year 0

The word cards that the new entrants work through. Ours are so tatty because they get carried around the house by everyone

The Summerland Athletics Day was held at the Trust Stadium and I happened to be working, and in charge of the 5 year old girls.....how convenient!!! I got to be there with Faith for the whole day and they brought all the staff Subway for lunch!

Dad got to bring along Seth and Ella for a while which was cool for all of us

Because she only joined this pod for the last half a term, we didn't bother buying the Anawhata Blue t-shirt (I just got this navy blue one the day before Athletics so she could be identified as Anawhata, but next year she'll be in Muriwai pod so she'll have a nice dark purple t-shirt.)

She came 3rd in the 5 year old girls vortex throw (maybe about 60 children)

Numbers up to 50, practice with Mum at home

The prizegiving was held at St Dominics Girls College on Thursday night last week. Faith wasn't one of the 5 people from her class getting an award, but she really wanted to go and watch. I'm glad we did cause she's keen to try and get one next year and it was good to see all the children get recognized for their achievement and effort.

She finally got her hot choccie from the coffee pod (the school coffee shop open on mon, wed, fridays mornings). She used to ask every time I dropped her off if she could have one and eventually I thought she'd forgotten about them (because it was always 'no'). I had said she could have one per year though so when she brought it up last week, we did it. A well spent $3.50 to see that smile on her face

Cause she's only been in her new class a few weeks and she got a mini-report from her last teacher, she didn't get a new report, but this is her letter with the news of her new teacher......Mr Smart (and he's gonna make her super Smart!)

At the last minute I decided that I'd make a treat for all the kids in her class, which meant me sending her to school, rushing to the supermarket (with Daddy Joe in tow) and the shooting home to make them. She was excited that I was going to bring up something for her to hand out to everyone so I couldn't let her down. Her Dad wasn't much of a help, hassling me the whole time that other Mums don't care about doing things like this and we should have just brought a bag of lollipops for the kids instead....christmas grinch alert!

We love Summerland if you couldn't tell! We're going to enjoy our summer holidays, but we'll be excited to go back on Jan 30th 2014!

VT treats and teacher's present

This is what we managed to put together for some little pressies this year.....just in the nick of time!

Aunty Nae and I had talked about a 12 days of christmas kind of present for our Visiting Teaching sisters. I loved the idea and decided I'd cut it down a bit and do 7 days of christmas.....that eventually turned in to 5!!! I'll pop them around to my homes this evening with my little 5 and 3 year old companions.

And for Faith's teacher's present we made her 3 necklaces and got her some choccie + a Prezzy card. Hopefully she liked it....I know Faith was super super excited to give it to her!