just another morning here

Nice combination, huh? Perhaps I should suggest it to Ben & Jerry. Can’t see it catching on though!

Anyway, we’ve had a busy day including the regular music practice, a trip out to help Steve with transport, spray painting a dalek, and lots of baking this afternoon because I thought my friend Ivonne deserved a birthday cake

Steve helped Joe with spray painting … this was after we’d glued little pony beads onto the dalek’s body … next we’ll have to use a little brush to paint the individual beads in a contrasting colour. At this point though it’s hard to tell that it’s an egg! Steve and I have enjoyed ourselves immensely helping Joe with this one, we might even make another one to keep ourselves! The patterns are in our little set on flickr if anyone else is interested

Josiah joined in with baking too – he didn’t like the fact that I was doing baking to take out this evening so he found his favourite Annabel Karmel cookbook and made some choc-chunk-cookies all by himself. He managed to drop an egg on the floor, spill some mixture at one point, and then finally upturned the bowl on the floor just as he was putting the last cookie on the tray. So the kitchen floor needs a clean, but hey, they taste great. I made gingerbread for home as well, some of which Abbie has taken to Wind Group.

Joe’s just had a good violin lesson, he learnt a new piece today, so we’ve got The Happy Farmer to practice this week. And Anna’s at Stage by Stage where they are doing High School Musical, aargh, are we ever sick of those songs already.

Anna’s science homework this week was to design a parachute that could prevent an egg from breaking when dropped … as usual left until the last minute (not that she had any other minutes in which to do it) as it is due in tomorrow morning – we tested it and it just about worked (well the shell had a crack in it but the egg didn’t break and go everywhere, so I consider that almost successful!), although I’m not sure if the egg box basket is a legal part of the design! Not sure of the height she was supposed to drop it from either, but never mind

A sorting out day. Kids have been amused playing, going to the library (we found lots of books on China for our chinese evening with lifegroup next week), doing some workbook pages (will wonders never cease?), and most recently, decorating an easter egg from a kit Maria gave them. Now, of course, after all those e numbers, they’re completely hyper but will soon work off they’re energy, we’re going swimming later. Here’s a pic, anyway.