Whoo-hoo!!!

 

 Another school year is done and the Christmas/summer holidays are finally here!  School only goes back on 16 January 2013, so it's a lovely long break for everyone.  Oh how I love getting out of routine!!

 

Top picture was taken this time last year, the end of grade 1, below are pictures of Jake, taken this morning.  I cannot get over how much he has changed in such a short space of time.  Just a year on and his hair is longer, his teeth all in place, his face has lost some of that chubby baby-ness and he's gotten so much taller and more grown up...

He's still got beautiful blue eyes, but now they come with a Beiber fringe...

Corky was there this morning and wanted pictures of himself taken too...

Of course, silly faces were called for...

 Jake made biscuits for his class as a little gift.  He did most of the work, besides the icing, himself...

We did 34...

 And of course, he made a special one for himself, with extra presents under the tree...

Because Jake and Connor are such a handful together at the moment, I've made them each a naughty or nice sweetie jar for the duration of the holidays.  Jake filled them yesterday and they're being put into action as of today.  We'll see whether they manage to fight less in order to get a sweet each afternoon...

 And that's about it.  Jake's got a sleep over tonight with cubs and he is super excited about that.  I'm going to try get him to have an afternoon nap, because I'm pretty sure they won't be doing much sleeping tonight!!  I'm sure they're going to have a blast and he should come home 2 badges richer!

 

Oh, also, for those of you who've followed Jake's year with regards to the whole Ritalin debacle, he got his report today and did FANTASTICALLY!!!  His marks have gone up and he doesn't have a single weak result (in the first term he had 9!!), every thing has been marked good, very good and excellent!  He's managed to get 5s and 6s on his report (scored out of 7), so is doing really, really, really so well.

 

To my sweet Jake - Well done, my boy!!!  I am so, SO proud of you, you have worked so hard and it's paid off beautifully.  You are a star.  I hope that you will keep up the hard work as you go into Grade 3, but for now, I hope you have the most fabulous holiday!!  I love you sooooooo much XXX

Also, to my niece, Abigail, who's going into Grade 7 in the new year, congratulations on becoming a prefect!!!  AWESOME stuff!

 

Enjoy the weekend!

Love Sue XXX

 

PS.  It's 2 years today since we got home from Lapland!!