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I thought this was very cool! Have a go at making one yourself and then maybe you could come up with a creative way to use it. media type="file" key="Paper Transformers.mov"
 * AMAZING PAPER TRANSFORMER!**

My daughter had a fun dress up day at kindy last week. At her kindy they learn their alphabet using Letter Land characters. She went as Vicky Violet, which you may guess to be the letter V! I loved these two photos of her dressed up as her expressions show two clear sides of her personality.
 * VICKY VIOLET**

Today my family and I went for a walk around the Mount. We started on the pilot bay side and finished on the Main Beach side. As we came up to the surf club, I decided to stop and use the toilet. Caleb (my son) came with me. When we came out I found that my wife had followed Hannah into the girls bathrooms as she had run off by herself. She was in there for just 20 seconds when she realised that she had left her handbag on the pram outside. She raced back to grab it and was shocked to find that it was stolen! We couldn't believe it. Two girls walking by had seen a teenager take it. He was chased by a guy and the thief dropped the handbag after taking the purse out of it first. What a pain. We spent the next couple of hours reporting it to police and cancelling cards.
 * STOP THIEF!**

Isn't it brilliant having a place you can share some of the things we are thinking about and learning. My wife and I were watching this video the other day and were amazed at the sounds that this group could make just with their voices. Listen carefully and see if you can hear! = = =media type="youtube" key="N6EYrqIn0yI" height="364" width="445"=

=Da Vinci Machines= Today I went over to the Waikato Museum with my family. Caleb has been really keen to go to a Museum for a while and we thought it would be a good opportunity of the long weekend. At the museum they had the Da Vinci Machines Exhibit. I was amazed at the number of inventions that he had come up with so long ago. I particularly liked the flying machines that he experimented with. On his helicopter type machine he put a box in the centre. The didn't do anything, but it was put there because he knew that it would need a power source to be successful in the long term. Even though there was no such things as engines Da Vinci had vision of something that might happen in the future....amazing!