Baking the Christmas Cake with Bekah ...

For the first time ever I made a Christmas Cake this year (Dan's done it once before with James) and my little helper was Bekah. She loved doing it and even came up with the idea of putting a snowman on the top and making it the North Pole. The cake was really yummy too!

Love this smiley photo ... :0)

Little Miss Dress Up Christmas Style!

One day she decided to put their christmas stockings on as boots - she thought it was hilarious (and so did James!)

Nice photo of James playing with all the nativity sets by the tree

James' First School Nativity play ....

One of the highlights for me this year was watching both munchkins in their nativity plays. James' friend from school told his mummy that James was going to be "one of the village people" which caused great amusement! :0) Turned out he was one of the villagers in Bethlehem and he looked like a shepherd. He was so cute and I was sooo proud of him. Wasn't that long ago that he would've totally freaked out doing something like this!

Rebekah was a shepherd in her pre-school nativity :0)

Time for a catch-up ....

Been behind on uploading photos to the blog again so here are a few from the last couple of months! :0)

Pumpkin Party ... Spot the odd one out .... :0)

Bekah and I carved pumpkins today (James wasn't interested this year). It was good fun and I think they turned out ok! :0)

Carving ....

She said this one was sad because he needed friend (which is why the second one was happy!) ...

"He wants a friend, Mummy"

Our little Tinkerbelll ...

Bekah is all about Tinkerbell at the moment and so partly for Halloween (although we have no place to go! :0( ) and partly because she loves dressing up at the moment, I made her this little Tinkerbell outfit. It's got bells on it so she makes a tinkling sound when she moves :0) She really wants Pixie Dust too ...

"Mummy, where's my magnifying glass? I want to spy on Daddy ..." Presumably why she'd picked such an inconspicous outfit ....

Rebekah has been loving the dressing up box just recently ... :0)

James and his numbers ...

James is showing more and more interest in numbers, adding and subtracting. He had some homework and developed it a bit to make his own number cards, and then count out the number of bricks for each card.

James and his new best buddy, William!

This is James with his new school friend, William. They are so sweet together and rather conveniently he lives directly across the street from us, and his Mum is really nice too! Everyone's happy! We went to the Lookout Woods with them this half term and so we had to get a photo of them togeher. :0)

Must've been taking too long because all of a sudden I heard a little voice "Mummy, take a photo of me ...."

And then she decided to work the camera with a few more poses .... what is she like?!

Half term trip to Windsor to see the Changing of the Guard with Kezia

Bekah and Mummy's Very Hungry Caterpillar ... quite impressive we thought! :0)

Westonbirt Arboretum with Grandma and Grandad

A few weeks ago I took the munchkins and grandparents to Westonbirt Arboretum (Dan was busy at church that day). I've been once before and the autumn colours are amazing. This time I think we were there a bit early, and my camera died so I didn't get the stunning leafy photos I was hoping for. But Grandad got a few good ones so I've pinched those! Fun day out.

Bekah decided to sit on the tree trunk I was trying to take an arty shot of ...

Grandma's Birthday Picnic at California Country Park ... wasn't really picnic weather but we did it anyway! :0)

James' Lego Birthday Cake

James didn't want a party and so we just invited Peter (one of his good friends) and Kezia round for some birthday cake the day before his birthday. On his actual birthday we went to Legoland. Seems a long time ago ...

A few snaps from Legoland on James' birthday ...