kate's bday

today maddie and i went to kate's birthday party. kate is a friend of madeline's from her nursery class at church. she had such a good time playing with her friends there and was beyond excited at the fact that kate's lovely mum natasha had organised some games with a peppa pig theme... 

we played peppa pig bingo and pin the nose on peppa and george. super cute and so well done... the bingo game was amazing, natasha had taken some pictures from the internet and made cards with six pictures on each (keep it simple for the little ones, great idea...) then shuffled a stack of cards that were the large pictures from the game cards. she'd then show each one and the children simply placed a block over their picture if it matched. because the game was so simple and the kids recognised all the characters it went very smoothly and they all loved it! keeping that in mind for future reference.

after cake (purple sponge... kate's favourite colour) the kids all played with playdough at a long table in the backyard. so much fun. zoe (one of my senior primary girls) helped madeline build this awesome frog. she was stoked and so excited to show it off to me when i came outside.

thanks for a great day kate!

ruby's frozen party

today maddie and i got to attend ruby's frozen party! ruby is a girl in maddie's nursery class at church who maddie talks about all the time, "ruby's my best friend..." so she was super excited, and even more so when we told her it was a frozen party. i think every little girl i can think of right now is completely obsessed.

ruby's mum did such a good job though... the kids played musical statues and pass the parcel to songs from the frozen soundtrack, pin the tail on sven (the reindeer from the movie), had a little lunch with frozen themed food... marshmallows (the big scary snowman in the movie is called marshmallow), carrots (cause sven likes them), popcorn (looks like snow), blue jelly (looks like frozen water) and drank from water bottles with funky printed frozen labels...

but the coolest game? they got to build a snowman of their very own! such an amazing idea! here is maddies... she was so excited to make one and then show it off to me. ruby's mum also made a frozen cake, with white snow icing, blue toffee ice and the characters from the movie. so cool. (pun intended.)

and just when i thought there was nothing else that they could possibly do to make it any better, along comes an ice cream truck. can't get much "cooler" than that!! the kids were stoked and so were the big kids, as ruby's parents bought us all one too.

ruby and her cousin blowing out the candles at the end of the day... i feel so lucky to know people so kind to invite us to their childrens special occasions and i know madeline had such a good time... there was even a goodie bag with blue easter eggs and a frozen "kinder surprise" egg, which i know a certain little girl can't wait to open!

coolest party ever!

nursery

my little girl is growing up way too fast! yesterday was her first day of nursery and it made me so sad. kept making me think of her first at church, so teeny and new... and now there she is running, playing and laughing. she was so cute - and played nicely with the other kids. i even managed to snap this cute pic of her in the middle of dancing time. what a little doll.