Andrew's new glasses

The four year old screening test picked up a problem with Andrew's eyes. Last week I took him to the Optometrist. He is long sighted with a lazy eye. So he needed glasses to wear all the time. This should hopefully fix the lazy eye. Yesterday afternoon we went and picked them up. Here he is wearing them. Andrew says he likes his new glasses and that they make things look bigger.

Rachel thinks she wants glasses too. Mummy might find her some sunglasses.

Andrew Birthday Party Number 2

Andrew's family party also had a Treasure Island theme. The collage below shows the main treasure hunting activity.

I made a treasure map. I cut this into pieces which I hid around the kids room. First they had to find the 12 pieces, then we put it together. The kids followed the map to find where the treasure was hidden. They had to go outside through the laundry and then came back in through the ranch slider into the lounge(the photo top left shows them coming back inside) before heading down the stairs to the garage where again we had hidden metal rings in the sandpit to be exchanged for edible treasure.

We also played Pass the Parcel.

Andrew is wearing his new bumble wings he got for his birthday in this photo.

Here is Andrew's Treasure Map birthday cake.

Andrew's party Number 1

In a crazy moment I decided that we would have a preschool kids birthday party for Andrew and also a family party on the same day. As Andrew is into pirates and treasure maps at present we had a treasure island theme. Here is the story of his kids birthday party.

We started by decorating pirate hats and treasure coin and pirate biscuits.

This was followed by morning tea (served in little treasure boxes). Then it was time for birthday cake and singing "happy birthday" to Andrew.

We then down to the garage for a treaure hunt in the sandpit. The kids dug for metal rings which they were able to swap for edible treasure. We didn't get any photos of them actually digging.

We finished with playing pass the parcel.

Treasure chest birthday cake

Daddy and Mummy made Andrew a treasure chest birthday. We were rather pleased with our effort so we have given it a separate blog post.

Here is the finished cake.

The surprise comes when you cut the cake open to find the treasure.

Now how was this done. It was mostly Daddy's idea. We started with a loaf tin shaped cake. We cut both ends off to form a base for the cake. Then we put a cavity in the cake by first cutting a square about 3 cms deep and then put a slit in each side to go through where we had cut the square. Then we were able to lift the piece of cake leaving the cavity as the photo below shows. We added the piece we had removed to the ends to form a base for the cake. We did have to cut some cake off to make it level.

We filled the cavity with lollies. Then place the base pieces on top and carefully turned it over and placed on the serving plate before icing it.

Lego words

The other day Andrew said he had made an "S" out of train track. Mummy went to have a look but she couldn't see it. Howeve later that day She and Andrew made the letters that spell house together as you can see below. Mummy needs to work out how to make the other 21 letters in train track and which ones you can't make out of track.