This year the school held a talent show for the end of year concert – a variety show with the children choosing what they would like to do – and as always, it was loads of fun, and there were smiles and happy children all around.

Grace recited a poem by Roald Dahl, and sung and danced in her group acts, and Eli danced in his class act. Herewith, the short, personal, version of the show…

Adam is always up for learning something new, so first he figured out how to ride on the little ambulance, then decided straight afterwards that the pink scooter looked like a good challenge too. When he started with the ambulance, he jammed his feet into the ground every time someone tried to push him a little, but then he loosened up…

It just takes a short moment of distraction to create a happy baby in a puddle of flour

When you’re all left inside while dad empties out the compost bin, and everyone wants to be outside, then it is time for a bit of group comforting.

We joined Isabella for some super bubble fun and birthday celebrations today. 

They had such awesome bubble making devices, from giant child size bubbles with a hoola hoop to dish cloth and plastic bottle bubble foamers. 

Oh my, what a giant bubble! 

The lovely ladies

Grace has been doing dancing for the last two terms as one of her extra murals, with all of the practising building up to the dance show they had this evening.

Pre-show posing

Checking out the crowd before the performance

Show time!

There are a few things that Adam likes to call for – two of them are Grace and Coco. In the mornings he comes out of this room and looks down the passage to the playroom and calls out this questioning, “Ace?” If he sees a cat, then it is just “Coco, coco,” or, if he is just looking for her, like in this video:

Grace has had her monkey for quite a while now and she is still very attached to him. Eli has become attached to his “Mouse” (who is really a lion), and that is now his sleep toy. Even Adam has his little bear lovie that he likes to hold at night.

But what happens when you leave your Monkey and Mouse lying around the house?

Bite them, shake them, squeeze them!

Donné shows this photo to Grace and says, “See what happens when you leave Monkey lying around?” Grace goes into instant meltdown, “Now Monkey has been destroyed, and Susan has swept him up and thrown him away!” At least she didn’t overreact.

Grace says to Donné today, “Janpaul and I had a discussion about our friendship today and decided that we are similar, but not congruent.”

Donné asks, “What exactly do you mean by congruent?” to which she responds, “Well, I can’t really explain it, I just have a feeling of what it means…..not the same.”

Mr Happy loves to check out the accessories