Our Future fashion designer

Here is Rachel's outfit for the day. Note the blue tights under the purple skirt with the yellow dress over top. The inspiration started when she decided that the yellow dress was the outfit for the day. It is a little cool to wear it on its own.

The Rubberband guys

Tonight at dinner we had Andrew's version of the Good samaritan story as follows:

"The man got hurt by the rubberband guys and they took his money. But a good guy came and he took him to a place [pause] a museum. And when they had finished they called him [possibly the good guy] a comforting guy."

Last week we were looking at this story in our nightly bible story and then it was also the topic for Andrew's group at Church this week.

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.