Elise's last day at preschool for 2010

Gisele and I went to a morning tea at Elise's preschool today for the christmas party. We had a lovely surprise with an invitation to join their music time and the kids were singing and showing us all they have learnt.

Here is some video of Elise joining in the song "I'm a Little Firefly"

The preschool sent home a CD of photos of Elise at play during the year. They are very sweet and capture the action. I had to share some of them...

1. Singing at the disco 2. Girls on the slippery dip

3. Look what I made 4. Playing Hairdressers

5. Some felt fun 6. Playing the drums

7. A wonderful creature 8. I made a cake

9. Patting the special visiting mouse 10. Moulding clay

11. Here is my painting 12. Her name and a drawing of herself.

Elise has loved her 1st year (apart from the rough few 1st couple of weeks) She has learnt so much. I felt teary today as she said goodbye to some of her friends going off to big school and to some teachers who won't be there next year. I can only imagine how teary I will be at the end of next year and then in 2012 when she starts school!!

It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

A busy time of year with lots of festivities. We are enjoying meeting up with people we haven't seen in a while. We had some friends over for brunch recently with the growing bunch of little ones - the youngest Bethany only a few weeks old. Elise and Gisele were bursting for her to wake up so they could have a nurse. Elise is with Alex and Bethany in the picture below.

The girls are not too fond of a live Santa in a shopping centre but they love this mechanical dancing Santa at the fruit shop at Meadowbank (below left) and I get requests to visit him often.

Below is a video of Gisele dancing with mechanical Santa. Every now again she breaks into freestyle then goes back to dancing with Santa again. I have to drag her away she LOVES it!

Below is some pictures of the girls playing cars with Nina for Edmiston christmas we had last Sunday. Nina is walking now and they had a lovely time chasing each other around.

We wish everyone a wonderful festive season! Hope Santa is kind to you. Safe travels and relaxing sleep ins over the holiday period. Looking forward to reduced traffic and less hectic lifestyle over Janurary.