Choo-Choo!

It is about time that I dedicated an entry here to Baxter's absolute favourite pastime "choo-choo trains!" He is absolutely obsessed with them! He likes to talk to us about his "chuff-chuff train" or "chuffin' train" (his favourite locomotive as seen above) and will happily go off, put together a little circuit of track all by himself and is content to play on his own at any time and all the time - although he often will ask you to sit down next to him so you can join in! It is brilliant to watch he is so focused and imaginative pushing his trains around and making the appropriate sounds...

Around a year must have past and he is still into his trains. Gradually his train and track collection has expanded and and now a circuit can fill the size of our living room. He just loves it just like a typical boy should and we love it to -especially Daddy!

Olive's 1st day at School

Mon. Sept. 26th and the big day we had all been waiting for finally arrived, Olive's 1st day at Orchard school! Our little Smols couldn't wait to put on her new purple uniform and get off to class! What a picture to behold our little girl looking all grown-up and no tears or anxiety just excitement -at least on Olive's part -and before you knew it we were at the classroom door and she was off!  

'Ash' Class

Olive shuffled off into the classroom so quickly we had to ask her to come back and say goodbye properly! So we grabbed a quick goodbye cuddle and off we went with slightly heavy hearts as a new chapter in Olive's life begins. We are so proud of our little big girl!

Nursery Ends

After 3 years Olive's time at Dickybirds nursery is coming to an end as her fellow "Woodpeckers" prepare to move on to school in Sept. In order to mark this momentous occasion the nursery stages a school play and worked with the kids to choose three stories they would like to perform for their parents. There was an interpretation of Peter Pan a version of 'Under the Sea' a scene from the Little Mermaid and then one slightly more experimental story combining a mini mum and dad in which the dad who was a doctor or more like a mini mad scientist turned into multiple Spidermen and then well, did some stuff and turned back into a doctor -brilliant!

Our little Smuffin took part in the Little Mermaid episode and played an extremely adorable green-fairy-Alien complete with some fetching delee-boppers thanks to mum!!!

Olive here rescued the Little Mermaid (Zhara) from prison and the Pirates!

Here the Nursery manager explains to the audience the great effort the kids put in to stage the plays with all the kids trying to be patient and
ready to act!

Look a little Oscar to the left of Olive in the Shark outfit, love that!

...and there's those Spidermen!



And one of Olive's best friends Daisy played the part of Peter Pan!

And Olive cheeky as is her nature blows another raspberry for the camera. We are so proud of our little monkey!

August 11

iBot

 

The other day Baxter got hold of my ipod and he was very adamant that i helped him put the earphones in his little ears so he could listen to the curious sounds that were emanating from it. So, I did and what better an opportunity than to introduce my little boy to some John Zorn! Excellent choice there Baxter. 

Quickly this turned from genuine curiosity to understand what this thing was and how it worked to now I want to walk around the flat dragging it behind me and i will get very frustrated if the earphones keep falling out or the ipod becomes disconnected and with this I will throw a tantrum and give Daddy a look that says, this toy is rubbish!

Face Paint the Sequel

A year has passed since I documented the last face painting episode and Olive is still unsatisfied with merely putting paint on paper and another would be innocent painting session quickly moved from paper to....arm...

to FACE!

Cripes!