Maddie's Christmas Carol Concert

Hi,

Just a couple of vids from Maddie's Christmas Carol concert with her school :)

Making Nanny's shortbread

This morning we spoke with Nanny and she told us that she had made some yummy shortbread dipped in chocolate! As I had the day off today, and we were looking for things to do, we thought it would be great to try it out.
I knew it would be fun, but the greatest surprise was that the shortbread actually tastes REALLY good! Amazing!.. and Hooray!

Just baked!


cooling down...


The best bit... dipping!


Wow - don't they look scrum diddly umptious!!?? (They ARE, I know!)

Recent pics

Drawing with Dadda's helmut on!

I love this cheeky laugh! Just out of the shower.. with our new little baby.. Amedia (named by Maddie of course!)



'I must wear my ladybird wings to the supermarket'




Our Christmas Tree

Anika's Birthday Party

A few weeks ago Maddie had a super duper weekend where she had TWO parties in one weekend! What more could a four year old wish for!

These weren't just any parties, they were spectacular, amazing, over the top, hard to live up to - type parties. Needless to say, much fun was had. Is it because she goes to an expensive school!?? Mistake! Anyway, I forgot my camera at the second party (which was at an Italian restaurant and had a kids entertainer/magician) but below are a few photos from a friend from schools' birthday. The theme was 'A beary happy birthday' and they all made their own bears which they took home, along with a gigantic party bag, and don't even get me started on the food!!!

Making bears


Floppy headed bear


Limbo!

Maddie and Anika

Feast!

The London Eye

I am so SO behind in blogging.....Sigh..... I guess that's what happens when you: A. Move to a new computer, which doesn't have the software you need and you are absolutely stupid at using computers and therefore you just ignore it and hope someone else puts the software on there... and B. you start being a working woman again.. and all chance of any free time is swiftly stolen from you!

And so despite being very behind, I'm going to keep this short and sweet.

Tonight we went on the London eye with Matt's work as an end of year family kind of get together. It was fun.. the night was beautiful (freezing) but so clear.. and the view was spectacular. Maddie was particularly excited about the whole adventure... and the deal was sealed when Matt's boss gave her a spectacularly girly present! Plus there was a baby on board which she was completely and utterly fascinated with (forget the view of London!!).

I'm soooo excited!

I'll try and update more random pics and things again soon. Time and motivation permitting!.. One must have time to veg out on the couch as well.. it's vital for sanity!

On the Eye

The baby!

Unwrapping her beautiful present


.... and here it is