Declan and his drawing

Declan has been getting right into drawing and coloring lately. He sits with Matilda for ages just drawing. I have watched him go from squiggles to lines to ircles and now to faces with legs!!. It's so cute to watch them go through the stages of drawing like they read the book on child development lol. Anyway here is one of his first people drawings.

Christmas time!!

Well christmas time here in the Finch family usually means lots of presents, lots of toys and lots of spoilit kids lol. This year was no different. As I went through all the kids presents before I wrapt them I thought 'wow I have a serious shopping addiction' lol. Anyway all got wrapt and santa added his bits and peices ;) till under the tree was overflowing on christmas morning. Matilda and Declan were so excited in the morning and had jaws wide open when they saw all the goodie under the tree. Unwrapping took a while and then ofcourse there is the million and one ties, staples, plastic bits and sewn in dolls hair to undo, untie and fight with. I think the packaging outweighed the presents by heaps.
The kids both got a bike each, a climbing monkey bar thing, diggers, bratz, clothes and much more. Just as they finished taking all their new stuff in we headed to mums for yet another full tree of gifts and a big lunch. There was mum, dad, Damon, Wendy, Kara, Mitchell and ofcourse us there to celebrate a very cold wet christmas day. The kids had a ball and play so well together, it really was a nice day. The kids raced out in any break in the rain to ride their bikes then back in to play with their new toys.
Alot of food was eaten and by the end of the day I was full and very tired. Another succsesfull christmas day down and a good years break before the next one. Now to find homes for all this new stuff....

Dance concert

Well this year was Matilda's forst year of doing dance. She did tap and jazz ballet. It was very cute wacthing her in her little dance outfit and shoes. She really loved dancing although only time will tell if this is a permanant activity for her. At the end of the year the school performs a concert. The last term the kids learned and practised their dances. Matilda's class is the youngest at the school and made up of 3 and 4 year olds. They had 2 dances to learn and perform. For their jazz routine they danced to the theme song from Hair the musical, and for their tap the song 'its a small world' was chosen. The costumes were too cute. Hair was a very hippy and bright lycra number and for small world Matilda was an hawaiian girl. Doing her hair and make up was fun as I am not really known around town for my make up skills lol.
Her concert time came and I think the hardest part for me was intrusting her into the care of other mums backstage. The little ones performed 2 shows, 1 on the sunday and the second on the tuesday night which was the last show.I was such a proud mummy watching from the audience. She knew all the moves and sang along to its a small world while tapping away.
She will continue with dancing next year and we will just se how it goes. I know she is already looking forward to performing again!! lol

The end of kinder

Well 2006 saw the end of matilda's kinders years. Its quite sad to say good bye as we all have made some nice friends and its jsut a loverly year. Matilda was a bit sad at the end as she knew she would not be seeing her frineds as much in the new year.
The final day was a party and play day. We all stood around just amazed at how quick time has gone and how our babies start school next year. We got given a little scrapbook of their year which was so cute and a real keepsake. Also the end of year saw the christmas concert. The kids were so cute doing their little nativity play and singing christmas carols. Matilda was an angel and looked very angelic. I was a very proud mummy.