My 8th Birthday

On my 8th birthday I got:

* A Keep-Safe Diary

* Connect 4

* Guess Who

* Slippers

* A lollipop pad and pencil

* A Rubbish Bin for my room

* Tennis Balls

* Money

We celebrated my birthday on Saturday. I had lots of presents, and we had yummy food to eat. In the afternoon we went swimming at the pools, and then we went and got some DVDs out. I chose Cat in the Hat and Dark Shadows. They were both cool, and Cat in the Hat was funny.

On Monday I went shopping with my birthday money and I bought a Tennis Set with pink tennis balls, a drink bottle and a pink and purple tennis racquet.

My 8th birthday was amazing.

Faith writes about our trip to Christchurch

Mum and Dad said we can go to CHRISTCHURCH. {Faith "AHHHH! I'm going to Chch"}

My friend Victoria in Christchurch (Waiau) made this

My favourite parts of our trip:

©       The wedding because we got to dance in a smoke machine and I put my face in front of it where the smoke comes out and it stunk

©       I get to keep the little black diamonds off the tables

©       The pools at Hanmer Springs

©       I got to meet my cousin Rochelle’s baby Jackson in Christchurch. The baby looked cute.

©       I got to see my second cousin and we had a good time playing and I scared him a lot and he did a robot dance.

©       I had a tiara and Annalise let me wear her earrings and I got 2 necklaces and I got new gloves for the wedding.

©       I got to ride Uncle Charlie’s friend’s scooter. He was at the back and I was at the front. One time I went to town on it and there was a bumpy bit and I couldn’t put my window bit of the helmet up. Then after that I could.

©       We got to have McDonalds twice for lunch.

©       We went shopping at the mall and I bought push-down pens and a loveheart pad with the sticky bit at the end.

©       My dress had white spots and black all around it.

©       At first I bought new earrings for Annalise because I lost one but Aunty Karla found it so I got to keep the earrings and they have got diamond bits and they are very colourful on the diamonds.

©       Aunty Karla let me have a petal basket that had white flowers and black and white bows on the handle. It is so pretty and the white is see-through.

©       I got to print some photos off to show my teacher and I got to stick them on the wall in my room beside my bed.

©       When I got home my blankets were all off my bed and I laughed and Dad was like “grrrr.”

©       We got to see Granny and Grandad in Kaiapoi and Granny took us to the dairy and bought us all an ice block and Shane had a smoothie.

©       At the wedding we had Kids corner and there were pens, pencils and these twist-on crayons. They were Josh, Jordan and Amanda’s stuff. They are my best cousins.

Fun Run

Today Faith ran/walked the 2km Kids in the City fun run.

This is the first time she’s ever done anything like this, so she was pretty proud of herself, and we were proud of her too. In the past she’s shied away from things like this, she absolutely hated the Cross Country running at school, but when the boys signed up for the Surf to City she decided she’d give it a go too. She’s even keen to do it again next year, as long as Mum runs with her.

The weather was perfect, not too hot, but dry and no wind so we all had a good day at the park. On our way out we found the teddy bears picnic that was also happening in the park today, and so we stayed a while longer and joined in the fun there as well.

It was a tired but happy Faith that we tucked into bed tonight, bursting with news to tell her teacher tomorrow.

Well done Faith.

J

My Two Front Teeth

By the end of November Faith’s two front teeth were wiggly, and she was hoping more than anything that they would fall out by Christmas so that she could go around singing 'All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth'.

But those two teeth stayed stuck, despite the fact that they became so wiggly that they would move when she talked. It was quite comical really.

A couple of days ago, she finally lost the first one. She put it under her pillow and the next morning, found that the tooth fairy had left her a shiny dollar coin.

The result was that the second of the two teeth became even wigglier. Dangly even. The thing sat crooked in her gums and jiggled furiously whenever she talked. You could hear it clicking as it knocked the other teeth. Most of the time, I couldn’t stop staring at it as she spoke.

 All day today, she played with that tooth, poking it with her tongue and wiggling it backwards and forwards with her finger. By bedtime, it was hanging there by just a corner, and we were worried it might fall out while she slept and she’d end up swallowing it.

So Dad pulled it out. It took less than a second apparently, he barely touched it and the thing popped right out and landed on her tongue, so she almost did swallow it. I came in and she was howling about blood, even though there was hardly any and it pretty much stopped bleeding immediately, that’s how ready this tooth was to come out. Then, suddenly she smiled, and stood up and sang

'All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...'