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| What every little girl loves - a little brother to be her dolly! :-) I have to admit doing that sort of thing with a couple of my brothers (sorry, guys! :-) ). Anyway, Deborah has been playing with her dolls a lot and taking them for walks around the house in the toy pram. The other day she begged to have Elijah inside, so I finally did it (of course staying right by her) and they were both *delighted*, as you can see from their faces! |
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| Last week was Benjamin's 6th birthday - a day he's been waiting to come for *months*! He doesn't understand/cope with time and waiting very well, so he got a bit stressed at times, wondering how long a month/week/day was, etc. It's the "unknown" that really upsets him most. So to make things a bit easier, he knew that all the presents I was giving him were Lego, so then he felt it wasn't so scary, as he knew the brand at least! :-) Here he was coming downstairs in the morning to find his main present - a large Lego Viking ship. |
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| The order of the photos isn't quite right, but here's a mixed lot of Lego (thanks to ebay!) with lots of rare and interesting pieces - which they've had lots of fun with over the past week. |
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| "The Lego Book", which starts with the history of the company and information about lots of sets, and dates for things, etc - just Benjamin's sort of thing! He already had the Lego Ideas book, as well as one of Minifigures, so he was excited to get this "missing" one. |
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| The cake - simple and not very perfect, but it made him happy. It's easy when your child just asks for some Lego on top of the cake! lol |
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| Birthday boy with birthday cake - he wanted his big ship in the photo too! |
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| figuring out how it works |
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| Abigai's present was a set of books - she loves Pippi Longstocking! |
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| Clement got a vintage (as in, issued the year I was born!) tug boat, with a variety of minifigures too! It's just the right size for him to carry around the house, as he does every day with Lego! |
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| Deborah is mad about stickers, and Mr Tumble too - so she loved this! |
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| A very educational minifigure - Cleopatra! And perfect timing too, as we studied her in history the week before! :-) |
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| Elijah getting excited about a present that hadn't been opened yet... |
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| "Come on brothers, this is going to be exciting..." |
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| And exciting it was - a big box of mixed Lego pieces! |
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| Then a few days after Benjamin's birthday, more presents again!!! My lovely brother Nathanael ordered presents for all of them. This is Deborah with her magnetic "sticker doll" set, which she's had a lot of fun with. |
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| Clement was so excited about his dirt bike set that he brought it to lunch! :) |
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| Abigail with her apron, hat and cupcake set! |
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| Clement with his set before it was built |
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| And Benjamin got a fantastic fishing boat, which he was really excited about - esp since he's not had a Lego shark before, nor a "little boy" minifigure! :-) |
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| Then the next day (yes, more presents!!) Our friends the Macphersons got him a really fun Hot Wheels ramp set, which has been popular with all of them! He's reading the instructions in the photo here ;-) (can't see his head) while the others are playing with it. |
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| This is from some weeks ago - our Billy bookcases from Ikea! We bought the tall narrow ones and fixed them with their corner brackets. I'm *really* pleased with the results - lots of storage space, and I like how it fills the corner there. Very good value too (esp when you buy the white ones, which are half the price of "oak" coloured ones!). |
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| Elijah was helping daddy put the bookshelves together! ;-) |
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| We made some honey spiced cakes the other week, meant to be based on an ancient Roman recipe! We've enjoyed learning so much about the Romans and aren't finished yet. I'm sure I've said a few times how much we enjoy The Mystery of History ;-) - even if we prefer to skip some of the suggested activities, or occasionally disagree with the "opinion/viewpoint" presented about some events/historical figures. But on the whole, it's a fascinating book and has developed a deep love of history in the children - esp the oldest two, but the younger ones listen keenly too (even the 2yo!). We've only got 6 lessons left in volume one and have just ordered Vol 2 last week, which the kids can't wait to start. But I know we'll be dipping back into vol 1 over the coming months to refresh our memory of certain details as we go along. |
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| My smallest girl, who wants to be all grown up! She's begging us to teach her to read, as she's finding it *very* hard to not be able to read like the older ones. Clement (who will be 4 next month) is coming along really well with reading and read his first simple book the other day. He's pretty must mastered 3 letter words, which is exciting. So Deborah is demanding reading lessons too, and working on the sounds of letters. Lots of fun! :-) |
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| My "baby", who isn't looking much like a baby at 9 months now! I think I'll be surprised if he's not walking *before* his birthday in June (Benjamin did at 11 months) but of course, you never know. He's certainly thinking about it and getting mroe and more confident on his feet - and *running* along the couches. |
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| Hands :-) |
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| Wearing his lovely Tots Bots "Spread a Little Nappiness" t-shirt. Not the right weather to have his nappy visible, but of course, there's a lovely Tots Bots cloth nappy under the trousers - best brand of nappies in the world! :-) |
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| Abigail is *always* crafting and creating stuff! Here she's made a crown for herself and a band w/ feather for Deborah! |
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So, I guess that's about all for now. It's meant to be nearly "spring" here, but we've had snow this week, so its quite cold still. Hopefully this will publish properly, as I'm sure it's got a record amount of photos included! < oops >
