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My daughter is a ballerina (she is the one on the left). Well, at least she participates in the class now. Last year, we started ballet lessons and she lasted, well, less than a term. It was painful. She would whine and scream during the first half of the lesson, then she would warm up and join in. After a few weeks, the stress proved too much for me, so I decided to call it all off for a while. Now, a few months older (and with the positive influence of her 'best fwend'), she is participating and really enjoying ballet. I'm so glad because I really, really want to live vicariously through my daughter and ballet is just so graceful and little ballerinas are soooo cute!
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Speaking about my daughter, well, she has taken up hairdressing (and she sucks). Anna took it upon herself to cut her fringe, and the top of her hair. Result, she looks terrible (I know looks aren't important, but I'm shallow).
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The children were told to be sad because Humpty was knocked off the wall :(
Benji Bear, modelling a burgundy Christmas scarf
The dads with their offspring, well mostly
Alex, being cool with his new friend, Aiden
Fairy Ruby is chaperoning Benji and Lola's latest date (cutest lovebirds ever!)
This weekend, we went to Fairyland with our best friends :) I think I may have oversold it just a bit (I may have told my kids that there were real fairies there), but the kids all seemed to enjoy it. And the adults, well, we enjoyed the snippets of kids free time we could grasp (literally a few seconds here and there). We finished up with a great dinner of Mexican hamburgers (thanks to the husbands) while the kidlets jumped off the couch to the mattress (all fun and games until...)
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On a bit of a boring note... I have prepped myself to go cloth only with nappies. I can almost hear a collective groan as mothers read this and think 'what the heck is wrong with her?' Well, the answer to that question is 'a lot', however, none of those issues are related to my using of 'clothies'. I have bought in total 15 modern cloth nappies, double inserts, bamboo wipes and some natural soaps (for the wipes solution). Pretty excited to be doing this (I've used cloth nappies on and off since having kids, but this is the first time I've really thoughtfully prepared it). It's gonna be awesome :)
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Also, in the 'healthy' vein, we are back into organic eating and raw juicing, however, this time we are not having our food delivered, but going to the weekly markets. It is a really enjoyable outing with the kids. We save money, buy great quality food and are not wasting as much- all round win! I have this theory that farmer's markets either have a real yuppie vibe (where everybody is eating organic to be trendy) or a real Earthy vibe (where everybody is buying organic because it's the only viable option) and the market we go to is the latter (I love).
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This week, my husband and I have being going to bed a little earlier than usual to watch a movie, The Burbs. Having never seen this movie, it was an educational experience (my husband often feels it is his duty to make me watch movies that were his childhood favourites- he is often genuinely surprised if I haven't seen certain movies). Anyways, The Burbs, as a light comedy, pretty entertaining. **Spoiler alert** The best bit is when Tom Hanks cracks it at the end of the movie, throws his gurney into the back of the ambulance and jumps on it, in one movement- that was hilarious.
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And I am STILL reading the first volume of Sherlock Holmes! Finding it nigh impossible to find time to read at the moment. Don't know if the kids are to blame or if we're just in a difficult patch this week- fingers crossed that things mellow again next week :)
And since its Mother's Day, double whammy for What I Wore Sunday- I forgot about the pic until I was at my mum's, so I made her jump in too xx (Even though you can't see, I'm wearing boots, because these days I practically live in them)
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