My gorgeous niece, Lexie, is five years old now...five going on fifteen! I had to plan my next afternoon with her carefully as I didn't want her to get bored. She really enjoyed the last afternoon we spent together Geocaching - the treasure hunt aspect of it was really exciting for her - but unfortunately, this year on the day I was spending time with her, it had been raining.
I went to pick her up and as I pulled into the driveway, she was waiting at the window with a beaming smile - she got very excited and ran to the door to let me in. She just melts my heart!
I had decided we would spend the afternoon at my place. She came in and her eyes immediately focused in on my Tower Bridge Lego. She really enjoys building Lego and is very good at following the instructions. She liked the fact that the bridge opened and that there were little Lego vehicles to drive along the bridge.
Lexie is also very much into Shakespeare and owns children's versions of some of the famous plays. I knew she liked Romeo and Juliet so I rented the movie Gnomeo and Juliet from LoveFilm.com. She really enjoyed the movie (this version obviously has a happy ending).
We then built a rocket ship out of a large empty plastic drink bottle, two smaller drinks bottles, wrapping paper and silver star stickers. We also created a launch pad out of a paper plate, tissue paper and plastic cups. She was very good at sticking the stars on.
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| Our rocket! |
We then had to make sure it could fly, so I filmed Lexie in slow motion a few times (mainly because she kept shouting "AGAIN, AGAIN"!). Below is the best video we filmed as she made a majestic leap!
I absolutely love spending time with Lexie and very much look forward to next year's 1 on 1 time.
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| Me and Lexie with our rocket and Tower Bridge behind us! |
