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Maisie looks more and more like Cade every day – maybe its just the hair, but its getting pretty CRAZY!!

Maisie and her crazy brushed hair 2010:

Cade and his crazy “about to start uni hair” 1997:

Miss Moo is in the middle of dropping her day sleep. We are in this weird time warp where if she doesnt have a sleep – by 5pm she is CLIMBING THE WALLS but then asleep as soon as her head hits the pillow at 7pm. If she does have a day sleep, she is able to cope so much better with the world in the evenings, but bed time is a long drawn out process.

Every day around 11am she starts asking “can I stay up today” or “I dont need a sleep today”… but today as we got home from the shops at 9:30am she said “I will be having a sleep today cause I am very tired”. I agreed.

Maisie started pre school last week. Its one half day a week.

I have been trying to get around to doing this post for a while now – but it just seems like there is far too much to write about our darling eldest child. It seems pretty much that every parent I speak to that their kids enjoy doing all the same things as what she does, so here is a brief run down for us to look back on for the future.

Maisie loves to sing and dance. She is a very girly girl. She loves to put on dress ups and dance around anywhere and everywhere (even in the supermarket). The Sound of Music is the most regularly played CD around here at the moment alongside Colins Favorites – with Super Saviour the most requested at the moment. Her favorite colour is pink. She loves to read books and does different voices for the different characters.

She still needs her routine and likes to ask “but what after” when we will be doing something later in the day. She still has a lunchtime sleep time most days and she still takes one of her old wraps from when she was a baby to bed with her. She can spell out and write her name (when she feels like it!) and loves to draw and paint. She loves to do anything crafty with sticky tape and glue. Her current favorite dinner is sausages.

She enjoys playing outside with water and rides her big girls bike with training wheels all over the place. She has gone from not wanting to put her head under the water to jumping in and swimming across the pool at Great Grandma Marys house in about 6 weeks. She is very aware of her environment and knows where to go if we are driving somewhere familiar. She has started to push the boundaries like answering back to us and also picking fights her sisters. She picks up the funniest things, like at the moment its very important to her to let us know who her “best friends are” (they change all the time…)

She is looking forward to her pre school day this year – she is talking about it all the time, and this morning she drew a picture all about it.

The people up the top are her family and up on the right is Hamish and herself going off to her preschool which is down the bottom. The person that is purple down the bottom is Helen, her preschool teacher!

Sing (To the tune of Jingle Bells):
Jesus saves, Jesus saves
Jesus is the way
Jesus is the Saviour
You should come to him today
Hey!
(Repeat at least 30 times at 7am on Sunday morning)

Note the arrangement of traditional Nativity figurines amongst some more modern interested parties.

Watch Maisie and Tally perform the moves. Listen for Tally’s perfectly timed ‘No’ to Maisie’s request to drink her first champagne.

In case you are wondering what’s going on at the end, that’s Tally performing the final part of the song from the movie where Gretel goes to sleep on the stairs and she gets carried up the stairs by an older sibling (in our reenactment, it’s me lifting her with one arm and plonking her on the couch).

Maisie has discovered a love for taking photos. Here is a small sample of her work.

Inspired by our friends, we have started teaching our girls the books of the bible. Maisie has learnt from Genesis through to Daniel so far. We have been trying to sing them to the tune that I learnt from my Dad many years ago (“66 books in God’s Holy word, telling the stories of Jesus my Lord.”).

Unfortunately I can’t strum a guitar to keep the tune in check, but she does a good job nonetheless.

Brooke from playschool just asked the question as she was reading the book of the day “who are your friends?” and Maisie answered her “Tally, Alice, Mamma & Dadda”.

So glad that we are counted as her friends!