Category Archives: Four Years Old

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hips & lips christmas party

19 Dec Filed under Christmas, Four Years Old. No comments.

Although the weather wasn’t quite right for swimming, we still had an awesome Christmas party in Mapua where we go every year to catch up with Poppy’s friends from ante-natal group. The kids all get a present from Santa and we have an amazing lunch. … Read More →

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church friends

19 Dec Filed under Church, Four Years Old. No comments.

Some of the little girls Poppy goes to church with….

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christmas sing-a-long

18 Dec Filed under Christmas, Four Years Old. No comments.

As we do each year around this time, we sing-a-long with the oldies!  Poppy loves dressing up and presenting an item in front of them and they have been watching her grow older each year.  This year she sung On The Good Ship Lollipop.  Aunty … Read More →

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santa

18 Dec Filed under Christmas, Four Years Old. No comments.

Poppy has been having in-depth conversations this year with every Santa she meets.  A big difference to last year where she just sat on knees and didn’t communicate too much.  Our favourite Santa of the season has to be the Mitre10 gentleman who sang Jingle … Read More →

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hydroslide

17 Dec Filed under Four Years Old. No comments.

Poppy’s homeschool group had their end-of-year breakup at the Tahuna Hydroslide for some splashing fun.

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orange dog christmas party

16 Dec Filed under Christmas, Four Years Old. No comments.

Poppy hasn’t done a lot of bowling – but she loves having a go!  Her friends Rielle, Alex & Torenzo were there too and everyone had fun at the playground.

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sausages & sandcastles

15 Dec Filed under Four Years Old. No comments.

Another end-of-year break-up party for our preschool homeschool group. We hit Rabbit Island beach for sand and surf and some volcano making fun before lighting a fire and cooking our lunch.  As always, we find many learning opportunities for our wee ones.  

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henley school musical

15 Dec Filed under Four Years Old. No comments.

The whole school of 600 kids was involved in this production so the hall was PACKED.  Everyone did a fabulous job and Poppy has been trying to retell the between-scenes jokes ever since!

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every little step

14 Dec Filed under Dancing, Four Years Old. No comments.

This Trudy Fargher Academy of Dance production was at the Theatre Royal and included Gemma Laing’s hip hop students who were incredible!  The Origin Dance Crew was the highlight of the show.  Although we had front row dress circle seats, it was so hot upstairs … Read More →

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ranzau school musical

14 Dec Filed under Four Years Old. No comments.

This was a fabulous production involving the whole school. I really liked the diversity of ages within each musical number and their costumes were wonderful.  The Elvis impersonator sang a little to Poppy as we were in the front row.