That question took me by surprise at dinnertime after Isla had been learning about 3-D shapes at school. She has been learning a lot about bears, and also the sounds 'igh', 'ee' and 'oa' as well as taking cuddly toys in to show each other. This term she has started to really love P.E. and gymnastics lessons, so Tuesdays are no longer dreaded. They used mini hockey sticks this week to hit balls around with.
While Isla was learning about such tricky things, Evie and I had made some blue play dough. Blue is still Evie's favourite colour and most things, if she has a choice about them, need to be blue.
Evie and I have started doing swimming lessons together and are really enjoying it. She has also been joining in at rhyme time at the library and learning things at music group. She's been enjoying playing with her friend Holly sometimes too.
Monty got stuck into Evie's beef pie when she had decided not to eat it one evening. This of course meant that she really really did want to eat more of it and so we had to dish up more and she ate lots. So I think that getting the cat to eat the dinner first is definitely the way forward. Monty protected us from a labrador this week by scaring it away from our house! He is a very brave cat!
Isla and Evie have enjoyed playing trains and paw patrol together and making things with stickers. They've also been playing with their Lego spooky house with a glowing ghost.
We made some cloud dough using 4 cups of flour and half a cup of vegetable oil. It is very smooth and forms shapes a bit like sand but also feels like snow too. It kept Evie entertained for a while, and I enjoyed playing with it too. Isla and Evie played with it for ages after school before dinnertime.
We made a helicopter and a plane with duplo.
Yesterday we looked at the International Space Station at 7.27 as it flew overhead. It was very exciting and Isla told her teacher about it. It looked about as bright as the brightest star in the sky and was moving fairly quickly. We've been looking out for the moon most days as we can normally see it on clear days on the walk to and from school. On Friday, it was very cold and frosty for the first time and the puddles and pond were thick with ice.
Evie and Pob playing with the marbles:
We got the easel out and Evie requested lots of blue paint.
We made viennese fingers using a Jo Wheatley recipe which actually taste like the ones from the bakery. I also made a chocolate traybake using Mary Berry's recipe and it was delicious! Evie helped on that one by cleaning the spatula with her tongue. I've been making quite a lot of tarts recently to use my new baking beans. The best one has been a lemon tart using a recipe by Gregg Wallace on the BBC good food website.
Today we had a very exciting trip to Hobbycraft where I bought lots of wool and beads for making some stuff. Then Evie and Isla had some adventures together in the garden and played houses and doctors at home.
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