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"A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014."

Harrison: We're so proud of you being presented the class citizenship award at prizegiving.

Amelie: You had a blast at your Preschool Christmas party.

Finley: The perfect spot for you amongst hundreds of balls!

What a week it's been, we are exhausted!

Amongst the craziness of moving we needed to make time for the end of year activities.

We had a great time at Matt's work 'kid's' Christmas party that they hold each year.  Finley had great time with the petting zoo, he was obsessed with the calf! Harrison and Amelie loved the rides, bouncy castle and seeing Santa.

We were so excited to get a note home from the teacher telling us to come to prize giving as Harrison would be getting a prize but we had no idea what it was for.  We are super proud of him for receiving the citizenship award for his class, such great affirmation that he is doing well at school.  We also received his school report in the mail where he has consistently achieved high marks across all subjects.  I can't believe he is about to finish his second year at school!

Amelie had a fantastic time at the preschool Christmas party spending a large portion of her time on the bouncy castle!  She looked gorgeous with the amazing butterfly face paint.  The kids performed a couple of Christmas songs which was very cute.
Finley loved the ball pit and an added bonus for me meant I didn't have to chase him around everywhere!

Amelie had her end of year  ballet concert where they performed 'Frozen'.  They looked beautiful in their Princess Elsa tutu's and danced to a selection of the songs from Frozen.  So funny watching them dance but couldn't help themselves to sing along to 'Let it go' at the same time!  Amelie did a great job and has come a long way since starting ballet a little over a year ago.

Finley is pretty much running now and getting into everything! This has proven to be challenging with the move! His new words this week are 'up' and 'birdie'.

The packers came on Thursday and packed up the whole house and then delivered it all to the new place on Friday.  What a hectic day with boxes everywhere and trying to figure out where to put all the furniture. We were so lucky to have some lovely friends help out with the kids on moving day and over the weekend to give us a chance to start unpacking.  A relief to be here and start the new year in our new house(apartment!) once we're back from New Zealand.