Category Archives: Little Lady
Summer time
I’ve been a little busy the last couple of weeks (more of that on another post) so apologies for the relatively long period since my last post! Anyway I couldn’t resist posting this pic of my munchkins enjoying the sunshine. How cute does the little man look in his first pair of sandals? He’ll grow into the shorts!
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Happy Easter!
Maybe I’m a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to Easter but there is no Easter bunny delivery in this household. Yes the kids get Easter eggs (not from us I hasten to add; that’s what grandparents are for!) but I have not even tried to pretend that there is an Easter bunny and the usually inquisitive 4 year old hasn’t asked any awkward questions. I am prepared to keep the magic of Santa Claus alive for a little while longer so it’s not all bar humbug in this household.
Anyway, in the lead up to the holidays, the kids have been busy with some Easter craft activities. Ava’s Easter bonnet was thanks to a lazy Sunday at our friends recently. It’s creation was inspired by the following You Tube video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFwCkoai5T8 It took a lot of self discipline on my part not to try and direct its creation. I would say less is more but try telling that to a 4 year old!
Benjamin’s Easter chick was made at Toddler group . Our toddler group craft team are a very talented bunch!
And no Easter would be complete without a couple of home decorated Easter eggs. I found the following website invaluable for reminding me how to blow out the eggs – http://www.wikihow.com/Blow-Out-Eggs A plaster is a must when piercing the holes on the eggs!
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Big girl car seat
One happy little lady in her big girl car seat! She originally expressed an interest (to put it mildly) in a pink princess car seat but we managed to persuade her that if she continues to do well at swimming, that the black cup holder that is up for grabs, will be much happier with a black car seat!
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World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day, the little lady dressed as Ballerina Bella from “Ballerina Bella and the Lucky Locket“. Coincidentally it is Ava’s ballet day today. I wonder whether the ballet cardigan will survive a day at pre-school…
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Happy Birthday Grandma
As promised in my post ‘Happy Birthday Grandpa’, my challenge was to make a coffee and walnut cake for Grandma’s birthday and I think with a little help from Masterchef judge Gregg Wallace and the veteran of a thousand cake sales as described by the BBC Good Food website, I did pretty well. I took the ingredients for the sponge element of the cake from the traditional coffee and walnut cake recipe (although I finely chopped the walnuts rather than halved them) and the icing, filling and decoration from Greg Wallace’s recipe. I was ably assisted by the little lady and my twin brother (who was making a special flying visit) but as you can see from the photographs they preferred to lick the whisks rather than do the hard graft!
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