Christmas Lists

This is what we would like for Christmas. We wrote our lists and put them by the fireplace and one of Santa's elves came and took them away.

Holly:
  • Fancy Dress Ariel
  • Dolly Ariel
  • Snow White dressing up
  • A new pencil with Ariel on it or a stamp
  • A toy car with gnomes in it
  • A radio with a cartoon about "We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
  • A toy mouse with a candle like the sticker
  • Christmas Teddy
Rosie:
  • Little Mermaid and a Cinderella dolly
  • Another teddy bear with a face like a person's face
  • Peter Pan Doll
  • Sleeping Beauty

Holly's car

Driving along today, Holly said, "Daddy... When I am a big girl, please will you fix a big hook to the front of my yellow car..? And then when you are driving along I can follow you wherever you go."

Christmas Cards

We were drawing Christmas Cards for our friends today. Rosie made several dozen. "This one is for Roisin, this one is for Libby, this one is for Ellis..."

Holly made one. "This is for Gabbie."

Family Photo

A rare family picture, at Painshill Park - which is a good place to go for finding fairy castles and kingfishers.

Absent Teacher

The Headteacher of Little Trees has been away for a couple of days. When Daddy asked if anybody knew where she was Rosie explained, "She is at home in bed pretending to have a headache."

Fireworks

Our first fireworks display today. Both Holly and Rosie seemed to enjoy it all, although the reviews were "Magic!" (Rosie) and "Stupid!" (Holly).

Boobies

Holly was baby, and Rosie was Mummy this afternoon:

Rosie: "Do you want some milk from my boobies, baby?"
Holly: "Yes please!"
Rosie: "Is that good? What does it taste like?"
Holly: "It does taste like watery milk."
Rosie: "No. This boobie makes milk that tastes of... er... apple juice, and this one tastes of orange."

Menu

Rosie presented Daddy with a book as a menu today. "What would you like to eat, Sir?"

"I would like the scallops, followed by the mussells, then the sticky toffee pudding please."

"OK.... Oh... We only have cake."

Counting BIG numbers

When we were walking along the street today, Holly was reading out the house numbers: "Forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine..."

She was very excited. "Fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two... I didn't know I could do this!"

Weeing in the swimming pool

Rosie: Daddy, I need a wee.
Daddy: Listen. If you only do it a bit you can just do it in the pool.

[Rosie wanders off towards the steps...]

Daddy: Where are you going?
Rosie: I only want to do it if I can keep moving forwards. In a zig-zag.

Rosie: Nana... It is alright to do a wee in the pool. It is because the wee is a bit wet but the swiming pool is a lot wet and so it soaks up it.

Lonely Seal

We saw a seal with a fish very close to the studio balcony today:

Holly: He is all by himself.
Daddy: Well that's OK because sometimes seals like to be by themselves. Especially when they have a fish because then they don't have to share it.
Holly: But he is alone and needs his Mummy to cut out all the bones.

Helicopter

We went on a helicopter ride to Scilly today. Holly said, "Look! The helicopter has a nose, and a windmill on top!"

Cinema

We went to the cinema for the first time today. We saw Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit. Behaviour was excellent though afterwards when Daddy asked if they had enjoyed it, Rosie said "Yes Daddy. But I never want to see that film ever again."

Tides

We arrived at the Seaside House yesterday and the tide was very high indeed. This morning it was out... Rosie worked it out:

"The sea has dried up."

When I am bigger

Holly: When I am grown up, I will be a boy and I will be a prince.
Rosie: When I am grown up, I will be a princess.
Holly: When our house is grown up, it will be a castle.

...

Rosie: No. Houses don't grow up because they are builded.
Holly: Our house isn't finished yet.

Bikes

We went out on our bikes again today. We demanded stabilisers off, but were not terribly impressed with the decreased ability to move forwards and the increased tendency to fall to the ground. Rosie's stabilisers were replaced as high up as they would go, and she was happy to rock from side to side on them, whereas Holly wanted hers a bit lower as the rocking was unsettling.