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Alvin!!!!! Movie Birthday Party for Charlotte

June 27, 2010 BritMumInNZ 3 Comments Baking, Charlotte, Special Days

Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 was in the house Saturday night for Charlotte’s 7th Birthday celebrations! The countdown for the movie party started days before. Fairy lights twinkled away the mid-winter gloom and balloons were strung up north, south, east and west. Goodie bags stocked, balloons stuffed with lollies and attached to elastic bands for […]

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Wild beauty & time well spent

June 19, 2010 BritMumInNZ 7 Comments Alice, Charlotte, Sophie

Rock pooling, rock climbing and tossing the largest rocks we could carry into the sea was a great way to spend an hour of our time this afternoon. Wellington’s south coast is wild, rugged and forever changing with the tide, weather and shadows of light from sunrise to sunset. I don’t think we’ll ever tire […]

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Drawings in the sand

June 19, 2010 BritMumInNZ 3 Comments Charlotte, Sophie

At low tide the wet, flat sand of Lyall Bay makes a welcome canvas. Sophie delighted in writing messages of love and mastered drawing hearts (a little something she’s been working on). Charlotte drew pictures and made trails (with maths questions!) for me to follow. They both asked for me to take a photograph and […]

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This is Me – [Kids Click]

June 18, 2010 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Charlotte, Sophie

The theme for this fortnight’s ‘Kids Click’ competition is ‘This is Me’, with the mission… ‘You need to find a way to take a photo of yourself in a way that tells us something about what kind of person you are, or what kind of things you are into etc.’ Sophie, age 4, took this […]

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YUCK [Kids Click]

June 7, 2010June 7, 2010 BritMumInNZ 3 Comments Alice, Charlotte, Sophie

Kids Click competition, from Greatfun4kids, now has a blog site of its own and the competitions are running once a fortnight. The theme for this fortnight is ‘YUCK’ and Charlotte (age 6) took this photograph of a terribly explosive, overflowing ‘nappy filler’ as she calls them: We have plenty of these now that Alice’s stomach […]

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Flowing with watercolours

May 27, 2010May 27, 2010 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Art, Charlotte, Sophie

Whilst the rain continues to lash down outside we have been flowing with watercolours inside. I know little of art techniques, but I do enjoy a quiet moment to draw or paint. I have fond memories, from my childhood, of whiling away hours drawing and painting, particularly on weekends away visiting extended family. Dan also […]

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SkyWatch Friday: Last of the sun before the rains

May 27, 2010May 27, 2010 BritMumInNZ 7 Comments Alice, Charlotte, Sophie

This was the sky on Sunday, as we ran in the last hours of the setting sun. It’s now Thursday and we’ve been corked in with an oppressive grey sky, incessant rain and now the wind has started to throw its weight around. Few parts of the country have escaped and there is flooding in […]

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I LOVE… [Kids Click]

May 23, 2010May 27, 2010 Charlotte 6 Comments Alice, Charlotte

Greatfun4kids blog is running a fun weekly photo challenge, ‘Kids Click‘, for children who love to snap photographs. This week’s theme is ‘I LOVE…’ And I love my baby sister, Alice. by me (Charlotte) age 6 going on 7 year’s old. For rules, and how to join in the fun, click here… UPDATE: Results are […]

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Scrumptious fairy cakes in the lunch boxes

May 23, 2010May 23, 2010 Charlotte 5 Comments Charlotte, Sophie

On Wednesday we made fairy cakes, which Sophie and I decorated. They made a colourful addition to the lunch boxes for the rest of the week! Recipe here! It was a scrumptious time. You’ve got to try the fairy cakes. We scoffed the fairy cakes from our lunch boxes at morning tea. Yah! They were […]

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Water play

May 16, 2010August 29, 2010 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Charlotte

Sunday afternoon, what shall we do? A photo shoot in the bath tub! Throw in some food colouring, blow up a few balloons, stir in a couple of ducks, random flippers and some leis… ta da!

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Cooking with Charlotte: Chocolate cobweb cookies

May 14, 2010May 27, 2010 BritMumInNZ 3 Comments Baking, Charlotte

Charlotte’s had a busy week at school and done brilliantly, considering she’s got a bit of a cold, even earning an ‘Outstanding’ certificate for giving 100% effort to all she does at school. She really didn’t seem ‘A1’ this morning so a rest day was definitely in order. She has been learning about procedures in […]

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The Magic Fart Day

May 12, 2010May 12, 2010 Charlotte 2 Comments Charlotte

One day in a city lived Mrs. Ratbag and Mr. Ratbag. They lived at number 99 Fart Bay Road. Their phone number was 297829694. Mr and Mrs Ratbag spent all their time farting. They were professional farters. Actually, they were the most professional farters in all the universes. Mr Ratbags favourite fart was a wet […]

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Descriptive Colour Poem by Charlotte, Age 6

May 6, 2010 Charlotte 5 Comments Charlotte

Red is the colour of an angry face, Blue is the colour of the wavy deep sea, Orange is the colour of a beaming sunset, Green is the colour of soft grass, Yellow is the colour of a flashing lightening strike. Silver is the colour of a shinning car

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Bullying at 7?!

May 5, 2010 BritMumInNZ 9 Comments Charlotte, Random Musings

Aren’t these supposed to be the golden years of innocence for our children? My daughter is coming home from school with murmurs of bullying. She’s not yet 7, but many of the children in her class are. I talk with other parents and hear of the talk of ‘gangs’ and one girl ‘firing’ other children […]

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