Christmas 08

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Christmas parades and Rock parties

Enjoying her pool in the hot sun

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Sophie has has a busy past couple of weeks - We took her to the local Birkenhead Christmas parade last weekend (which she hated...) - the fire engines and trucks all decided to crank their sirens and horns all at the same time and frightened the be-jeezers out of her!...and the weekend gone we all headed over to Devonport for the annual Rock Christmas party, which Sophie LOVED! (I guess anywhere with food all laid out on a table is exciting for kids!) She did make lots of new friends and even befriended one of the caterers - Sophie latched on to her and talked her ear off all afternoon. We were all laughing at how much the Rock Xmas parties have changed over the past few years...I can remember a time there was nothing but drunken debauchery and carnage - but these days there are lollie scrambles for the kids, a civilised barbecue with caterers and the whole things over by 6pm!

Ingrid has been home with Soph the last couple of days because Kids Klub wrapped up last week - the both of them have been having a ball together and Sophie is really looking forward to seeing her relies in a couple of days...I've got a sneaky feeling she knows she's gonna get spoilt rotten by everyone too!

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Sophie's new friend...one of the catering staff at The Rock party...

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Chilling out at The Rock shindig
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Mummy and Sophie at the Christmas parade..."Don't like the loud trucks Mummy!"

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Daddy's turn

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These ones are pretty cool though...they don't make any noise!

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Sophie bit her own cheek...Ingrid looks in more pain they Sophie!

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Kids Klub Xmas Party

Kids Klub held their Xmas Party yesterday afternoon down at one of the local parks. There were fish and chips for all the parents and kids - lots of sing along's and everyone got a present. It started at 6pm and we didn't get home till around 8pm so was a pretty late one for Sophie - add in all the sugar and excitement and she was buzzing for ages! - Kids Klub finishes up next Friday and return on the 5th January.

Sing a long time

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Oh!...what's in here?"
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"yay...more singing!

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Check out the video here of Sophie singing with the other kids.

Xmas Trees

We’ve been telling Sophie all week long that we’re going to buy a Christmas tree this weekend. So you could imagine how excited she was when we finally got around to getting one. We drove to place way out in Albany where you drive onto a farm and they have a zillion wicked trees to choose from. The friendly old geezer who owned the property took a wee shining to Sophie and told us we could go for a walk around his property and look at all the animals too...good to see there are still some genuine people around. When we got home we did lots of colouring in and drawing in her activity books - we're trying to teach Sophie to colour in between the lines...it's a slow process...

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Sophie in full concentration mode...

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How did I do mummy and daddy?

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Yesterday we dropped Soph off at Auntie Nicky’s place for the afternoon – Nic offered to have her for a hew hours so we could go Christmas shopping and chill out with just the two of us. Even through it was only a few hours, it was quite relaxing shopping without a 2 ½ year old latching onto us and wanting to play on every merry-go-round and play thing that malls have these days! Sophie had a blast at Nic’s place anyway- they went to the park, had a swim and did lots of Auntie/niece things all afternoon…cheers Nic! (we'll see you next weekend too huh?)

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Yay Auntie Nicky!

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"Mmm which tree do I like?..."

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"I think this one!"

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"Come on Mummy!...I know you're pregnant but I want to see the animals!"

Brad