Elmo's Got The Moves

So the other weekend my girls danced in their Dance Showcase. I was so proud of them getting up in front of over 300 people and doing two dances. What really surprised me was how confident they were, and how much they loved being on the stage. 

After threatening to cancel their dancing lessons prior to the showcase because they weren't practicing...I am thrilled it how much more excited they are about dancing. 

Their class dance was to an Elmo song. They wore the cutest Elmo pants...with his face on their bums. And cute red caps that I managed to pick up for $2. 

As a special treat for the kids at the following dance lesson, I made them all Elmo cupcakes. Admittedly not my tidiest work...but the kids loved them!

Happy Valentine's Day

Today we made cupcakes...banana and chocolate.

Holly wanted to make some cookies for her Kindy teachers, but we had so many aged bananas to use up, I thought cupcakes would be a better option.

We boxed each teacher an individual cupcake. And made up special labels for each box! Each label had "I'm Bananas About You" and a picture of a couple of monkeys with Holly's head superimposed on top.

Holly was pretty pleased with the results!

Advent...Day 27...The End

Today we finish! And it's only appropriate that we finish with thank you's.

I think it's very important if people have taken the time and effort to buy us a present that we officially thank them for it.

Today we wrote out our thank you cards...most of them as its a little hard keeping her that interested for so long!

The cards were made by Holly and printed by her Kindy as a fundraiser. I think they look really cute. I wish I had ordered more!

Advent...Day 26...Boxing Day

So Christmas is officially over!

Today was great. Just relaxing and checking out new presents. It's been a busy month so it's nice to take some time out.

Today I sent an email to the kids from Santa. They were so excited to receive it. Attached to the email were four photos of Santa in the house!!

I wanted to do this for the kids as one of Holly's wishes in her letter to Santa was that he would come into her room while she was asleep and ding her Jingle Bells. So in her photo...that's what she thinks he's doing!

I took photos of he kids while they slept on Christmas Eve. Then this Morning I added Santa to the photos on the Capture the Magic website. Www.capturethemagic.com

I'm pretty pleased with the results...and the kids were blown away!!

Advent...Day 25...The Big Day

The food and drink left over form Santa and his reindeer

 

 

The Santa Sacks

 

 

Hunter loved all his cars from Santa

Phoebe with her presents from Santa

Holly opening her Santa sack

I love this photo...she just worked out what the present was

The "Pirate Chest" fu;; pf presents

Opening presents at Nanny and Poppas

Advent...Day 24...Christmas Eve

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

This evening we had our Christmas celebrations with Bain's family which is dinner with a visit from "Santa".

We were lucky as it was a beautiful day the kids managed to have a couple of swims.  They also all enjoyed a ride on the Gator with their big cousins.

We all had a great time and the kids came home absolutely shattered...Phoebe and Hunter asleep for the rest of the night.

Swimming on Christmas Eve

Cool rides on the Gator

Santa has been spotted!!

Santa handing out the presents

Holly's so funny...she likes to store her presents.

Waving good bye to Santa

Waving bye

PREPARATION FOR SANTA

By the time we got home from our family celebrations, Holly was the only one still awake.

I asked her what she would like to leave out for Santa and the reindeer.  She decided on Chocolate Milk (we never have this!!) and carrots. 

Then she hang the Santa Key (see previous post) outside...and reluctantly went off to bed.

Advent...Day 23...Mummy's Chores

Today was about getting ready for Christmas...and didn't involve the children.  We have a busy day planned for tomorrow so I had to be extra organised today.

So I prepared Nice List Certificates for each of the kids.  I got these from free templates off the Internet.

I prepared stickers for the kids presents from Santa.  Its great to do stickers with photos of each kid on them.  It means they don't recognise my handwriting and they can easily identify who each present is for. I also print them off in equal numbers...making it easy to ensure that each child has the same number of presents...very important.

And then I wrapped and sorted them all! I'm so excited...I don't know who's more excited - me or the kids.

Nice List Certificates

The kids Santa Sacks. I just ordered these this year.  They are awesome...I am very pleased with them.



The stickers I made for each child.