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Turning six

February 26, 2016February 26, 2016 BritMumInNZ Leave a comment Alice, Life in action - Videos, Special Days

Dear Alice, What a celebration you have had! You woke on the morning of your 6th Birthday, stretched up with your arms and said, ‘My, I have grown!’. And yes, you really have. This past year and a half, since arriving back from our amazing experience living in California (which you still talk about with […]

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Things I’m Loving | A Pirate Lunch that rolls on all afternoon…

March 1, 2014February 26, 2016 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Alice, Special Days, Things I'm Loving

It started with a treasure hunt, through dinosaur den, bamboo forest and pirate hideout; before quickly rolling into pin the tail on the tic-toc croc and find the gold doubloons in the sand. There was blue jelly with orange boats sailing the high seas, a water melon doubling up as ship and a chocolate cake […]

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Things I’m Loving: Since Alice Turned Two

February 28, 2012March 2, 2012 BritMumInNZ 2 Comments Alice, Loving & Not Loving

We’re just into the (ahem) ‘Terrific’ Twos! So far…. so good (I’ve gone and tempted fate now – I’ll be blogging about the mother of all tantrums tomorrow!). Staying on the positive side I’m going to share a few cute moments (which could also be seen as frustrating, annoying, a lot of work, never ending […]

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Cake, candles and ride-ons for Alice’s 2nd Birthday

February 17, 2012 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Alice, Special Days

Two years ago Charlotte and Sophie met their baby sister Alice. They came to greet her in their favourite dresses, sensing it was a very special occasion. Alice had arrived into the world like a dolphin greeting the sunshine – pivoting around as she sprung out of the watery womb of her beginning into air […]

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Taking baby dolls for a walk…

August 13, 2011August 13, 2011 BritMumInNZ 5 Comments Alice, Life in action - Videos

Nearly 18 months old and Alice adores teddy bears and dolls. Bears, dolls and boxes are her favourite toys. With Charlotte it was a train fascination at this age – we collected trains and track, read ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ and took bags of trains out with us wherever we went (though there was one […]

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Things Alice is Loving at 17 months…

July 23, 2011July 23, 2011 BritMumInNZ 10 Comments Alice, Loving & Not Loving

Linking up with Paisley Jade….

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