This week saw the start of all the extra-murals at school so the routine was pretty much back to normal, however Abigail has stopped dancing and started Art Club which she absolutely LOVED so the schedule is a little different.
They had a "Cakeless cake sale" at school! Sounds rather strange... I thought so too, but how it works is each child donates R10,00 towards an empty cake box which they then bring home and decorate. Then there is a competition and the box judged to be "the best" will win the cake! Abigail brought her box home and got started right away. I'm still contemplating making a few suggestions on what she could add but here's the box so far:
(this was before it was accidentally "flung" across the room smearing glitter glue all over the back of my jeans in the process!!)
On Thursday Niave started a hospital in the passage. (It was just called "hospital" I suggested "Hutton's hospital" or "Niave's hospital" but NO - just "hospital"!) We had to fish out every "baby" we could find, source a suitably sized "cot" for it (because the wrong size cot will simply not do!) and they were lined up to be nursed by nurse Niave!
(I was not allowed to take photo's so this one I snuck in! The line extends far beyond the ends of the picture!!)During the week Grant and I were woken up on more than 1 occasion in the middle of the night by a Hill-Billy rendition of "Old Mac Donald" complete with animal noises coming from somewhere in the house! It was a little eerie I'll have to say. It was like a scene form a movie: we'd both open our eyes, listen for a second or 2 and then turn to each other with a confused look on our faces! On investigation we discovered this little green tractor
merrily singing it's song, tooting it's hooter and rattling off, moo's, baa's, oinks and neigh's all by itself. Now, all these sounds need to be activated by a button, so while I was glad to have found the source of the midnight barn dance serenade I was a little freaked out by it's self-activating properties ...or not - that's a pretty heavy spider that can push those buttons! So, Grant has solved the problem - he removed the batteries! And now we sleep peacefully once again! (Whoever invented battery-operated toys obviously never had any in his house!!)
merrily singing it's song, tooting it's hooter and rattling off, moo's, baa's, oinks and neigh's all by itself. Now, all these sounds need to be activated by a button, so while I was glad to have found the source of the midnight barn dance serenade I was a little freaked out by it's self-activating properties ...or not - that's a pretty heavy spider that can push those buttons! So, Grant has solved the problem - he removed the batteries! And now we sleep peacefully once again! (Whoever invented battery-operated toys obviously never had any in his house!!)Abigail received her DVD of the Dear Edwina Show yesterday and was up until 10:15 watching it this evening! It was really nice to hear all the songs again, it really was a great show.
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