A little bit of culture!

Last night our ward (our local church congregation) had a "Royal Variety Performance" with various singing, dancing and just different acts from different ward members. The third performance was The Kruger Girls! They all have a ballet class each week with a lady from church who used to be a dance teacher, and never have done a show even though it nearly happened a couple of months ago. So last night, we had Rachel and Hannah dancing to the waltz in Coppelia, and then Sarah and Rebekah dancing to/being Little Bo Peep. We were surprised that Sarah and Rebekah (5 and 3) wanted to do that in front of so many people, and at bedtime too - not the best time of day for them! They didn't falter either, even though they had a problem with feedback at the beginning of where they should be singing, Sarah picked it up just fine. I did see Rebekah trying to hide behind her sister just a little bit though, whereas normally she sings out bold and strong. Apparently Rachel's favourite part was curtseying at the end, maybe because of the huge applause they got?!

It was really fun for us seeing them enjoy it so much, and feeling so confident. Also hearing all of the aaahs when Sarah and Rebekah came on stage. They had fun, and so did we. We hope you enjoy watching them too. Oh, Michael says sorry for being a bit abrupt with the zoom to start with, but hopefully you'll see just fine. So without further ado, here are THE KRUGER GIRLS......





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Welcome friends!

Hi everyone! Welcome to our family's blog. I know I've sent some of you a link to another one in the past, but decided it made sense to have one just about our immediate family, so this is the place to come to find out what we're all up to, or even what we look like right now!

Well, it's been a while in the planning as you can tell by how many posts are now on here, and all before anyone but us has even seen it! It was meant to be sent out quite some time ago but, well, we've been busy with life really! So please take a look through the past posts (by clicking on the different months in the side bar might be the easiest - that will then take you to that month of posts), and see how our children have grown and what we've all been up to. We hope that we can keep you all up to date on our goings on more easily this way - you just have to remember to check it every so often. You can post comments easily too, and it would be lovely to "hear" your voices and know that you're around, so please do sometimes. :o)

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We went to the transport museum in Coventry a couple of weeks ago while Edan and others had their half term break. I thought Peter would be fascinated by the cars and buses. He didn't see them all, but took it all in his stride really. He was really tired though as he wouldn't go to sleep! The thing he loved more than anything though was all of the toy cars. He really wanted them! Actually, when I just showed Peter this picture, he gasped in wonder as he did when he first saw them - a sort of "WOW!"



Peter liked the bikes. He kept standing by this penny-farthing trying to get onto it. Doesn't he look diddy on it?




















We finished off in a play space including some soft blocks that were shaped so that you could make your own car from them. Hannah was chief designer when it came to this. She suddenly gets so animated in these situations and her creative energy runs wild! :o)


We had just about everybody in all together. Peter mostly just got knocked down a lot by people walking around by big blocks, or jumping and landing on him, but he held up fairly well!





I was exhausted by this time, but had a go too after sitting down for a while. So this is my racing car, made for Rebekah, with Rachel as the expert driver.