Amy's Birthday

The boys were invited to both of Amy's birthday parties. There was a lovely tea on her actual birthday for family & then on the Saturday there was the party for her friends. The cake on her birthday was a very delicious ice cream cake & on her party day she had a Hi5 birthday cake. I managed to go to her birthday tea but Scott did the honours for the Saturday party as I was away.

Time Flies

when you're having fun.

It seems like an age since I have updated the blog & I feel that a lot has happened but I think a lot of it was really me trying to get all my homework done for Crafting Connection.

Since the last brief post we have had Amy's birthday, me going to Crafting Connection, Brent reading the prayer at the church service, Brent bringing home a fantastic effort card & Brent having a music evening.

Such a lot & unfortunately there are hardly any photos of it all. In fact we never got Brent's Effort card scanned this time, I will say though that it was better than the last one if that was at all possible.

Medbury's music evening was on Friday night. It was once again a fantastic performance & probably all the better when the school has been in the grips of a terrible New York Influenza A outbreak. Apparently half the staff have been sick with it this term & one of them has been Brent's teacher. Half Brent's class has had it but luckily (touch wood) Brent has managed to stay healthy. Back to the music. Brent's house (Clyde) sang so well that they came first for the second year in a row. I have to say it is nice that it is over, getting to school early 4 days a week was making for some long days & both boys are very run down & tired.

I think that I am having a quiet week this week, it took me all of last week to recover from the Crafting Connection weekend. This week it is back to the grindstone & the routine of housework & exercise, drop offs & pick ups.

Today You Day 5 - Saturday 29 July

8:14am You came down to my craft room proudly carrying breakfast for me, a wedge of cheese, some cashew nuts, a quarter of apple (core & all).

10:00 You went to swimming lessons

3:45 You made popcorn in the new popcorn maker.

Today You Day 4 - Thursday 27 July

I haven't really got a photo of this so I might just use a photo of the car.

6:30am You woke up & got dressed for school & kindy

6:45 You had cereal followed by frankfurters for breakfast. Weetbix for Brent & porridge for James.

8:00 We left for the school/kindy dropoff. Brent got dropped off first & then James.

Today You Day 3 - Thursday July 20

3:30 You had afternoon tea & got a treat of Pebbles to celebrate a good first week back at school & kindy

4:00 You did your homework. Brent had reading, spelling & his big red prep book. James did colouring in of things beginning with H & wrote a lower case h.

6pm We picked dad up from the airport after he had spent a day working in Wellington.

What's coming up

Today James went back to morning kindy & tomorrow Brent goes back to school. Yipee because I have had enough of loud boys voices yelling & screaming all the time.

Brent was very good this morning & helped me with the housework but as soon as you put both boys together the noise level just sky rockets.

I am doing a layouts class tomorrow night, kindy library on Wednesday. Scott goes to Wellington for the day on Thursday & Friday is the kindy committee meeting.

Brent is going to be going to gymnastics with Medbury on Wednesday mornings so it will be interesting to see if he starts trying to do handstands again. Also the 3rd term is the music night so I imagine we will be having to start helping him memorise some songs for that.

Sometime through this i will have to remember to keep making notes for the today you class so I'll be updating the blog a bit more frequently with all the homework things I am doing.

Have a great week everyone.

Creating

Not much creating has been happening this week, I've been trying to get some of the homework for CC2006 done. I found out that for the 10 classes I'm doing I need a minimum of 31 photos. So it has been a matter of going through old backup discs from last year to find the photos I need for class.

I did create a small 8 x8 layout yesterday after coming across a photo of James' 2003 christmas decoration. I have decided to give each boy an album about the decoration that they get each year so they know the significance of the decoration.










I have also played around with his photo of James from Rangitoto. I love this photo of him because it seems to catch his mischievous but exploring personality.



















So I had a fiddle & learnt a new trick that I have been trying to learn for ages.

Doesn't it annoy you when you have been trying to do something following instructions for 2 months & it doesn't work? Well it took me 2 months to work out that there was a box I needed to have a tick in to get a photo to look like this.

Quite a neat trick that I might try on Brent's photo of him & the new toothbrush.