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Newberry Montessori’s school concert
Grace’s school concert was finally on today after delays due to wind damaging the back drop last week. It was the story of Georgia Rose who goes to the city to explore – a kind of variety show threaded together with Rose’s story. The whole show was very entertaining and funny, with everyone performing well. We could all see that lots of hard work and practice went into it, and all the children seemed to have a wonderful time performing. Here are some snippets…
The leaf dance (to California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas)
One Direction, “The Best Song Ever” – I really should have taken a video of this, as the boys really put on a show
At the circus, with Grace’s Indian dance and the animals
Living statues at the museum (“Hide and seek” by Imogen Heap)
The mime dance
Well done to Roxy, the whole team involved and all the children who worked hard to put on a very entertaining show
Fairy flowers
As I opened my office door at the end of the day, Eli came running past naked, closely followed by his sister in her underwear. A few minutes later I go into the playroom and there are two fairies ready to dance.
Fairy number 1, The Ladybug Warrior
The prancing fairy Gogo
Last week Grace spent some time teaching Gogo some dances before she left.
Loom band audience
Grace always loves an audience, so she enjoyed having Stephan and Izelle over today so that she could show them all the things she can do: riding her bike around the pool and down the garden track, doing monkey bars, and teaching Izelle how to make loom bands.
Oh Christmas Tree
We put up our Christmas “dee” (as Eli calls it) today.
G is for Grace
I’m still figuring this out
Grace collected seed pods and pine cones to make into Christmas decorations. She collected them shortly after we moved in, and we finally got to turn them into decorations and hang them on the tree.
The little Christmas Elf
Packing up
Donné was busy explaining to Eli that Gogo and Gramps are going to be leaving tomorrow. He took this slightly the wrong way and thought that they needed to pack their bags right now and go….so he decided to be a little helper.
Throw things into the bag and push down as hard as possible
Tablet time with Gogo
Grace and Eli getting in their share of media devices for the day
The bouncy ball
Eli has figured out how to bounce on a bouncy ball! He’s bouncing on it….and off of it.
Remember to say your bears
Part of our night time routine is for me to say prayers with Grace. Eli is now officially no longer getting milk at night, so he is now also joining us for prayers. He can’t quite say, “prayers” yet, and so he says something which sounds more like, “bears”. One of the things that I ask every night is what they would like to say thank you for. Eli, knowing that it is prayer time, says, “Bears, bears!” Grace has now cottoned onto this too and also says she would like to say thank you for bears.
So every night we say thank you for the bears.
Toad relocation services
Things have warmed up a bit and the noisy toads are back and making even more eggs.
We managed to catch two pairs who were busy laying toad eggs (lots and lots of toad eggs), as well as a 5th loaner. Off they all went to the water at the end of the street, and the evenings have become much quieter.