snips, makes and bakes

Not nearly as muffiny school at home as it sounds I promise ;).

The children were up early again this morning, but I was not. They found themselves breakfast and watched a taped Dr Who episode while I slept off yesterday. When I did get up I put loads of washing away, put loads more through the machine and on the line and then settled down to blog yesterday.

D&S were playing with the pens, paper and scissors. They’re both really into cutting things up / out at the moment and S was sitting merrily snipping away a piece of paper she’d decorated and suddenly lifted it up and said ‘oh look, I’ve made a spiral!’ and she had 🙂 She wasn’t at all sure how she’d managed it but it was very nicely cut out and looked very pretty so I showed them how to cut out really long ones and they decorated them. They are currently suspended from the lounge ceiling with sellotape and cotton and spin prettily in the breeze so will no doubt dangle there until they get ripped down by marauding children later in the week.

I then got carried away sorting out the freezer in the garage and writing the month’s menu planning up on the kitchen board and then Ady came home and helped the children tidy the lounge up and I ran the hoover round to get up all the teeny tiny snipped bits of paper which seem to characterise our lounge floor at the moment (maybe we should go into the confetti business as a sideline? NicConfetti? No?). We all had lunch of some description and then Ady went off to college.

Ady had brought his laptop in and loaded it up with a dalek game for Davies he’d found on a website so Davies played that while I made a start on a papier mache Yoda for a birthday present. Scarlett sat and cut up strips of newspaper for me and ran to get supplies of flour and water as the paste got used up and we had a very peaceful hour doing that. I put Yoda in the garden to start drying out and cleared up my papier mache mess, Ady’s laptop battery ran out which called an end to Davies’ playing so we decided to do some baking.

When we were food shopping on Saturday we’d seen a Dalek biscuit kit in Sainsburys. I normally refuse to buy those cake making kits – they’re so overpriced for what’s in them and we make far nicer baking from scratch but when you get a cutter in the box too I think they are slightly more worth the money as at least you get something to keep. Davies, in his usual style with one of his fads is totally obsessed with all things Dr Who and Dalek at the moment so it seemed like a good investment. He did most of the mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting out and Scarlett helped with the putting rice crispies in the biscuits before baking. They came with orange writing gel to finish decorating them but Davies wanted me to do that. They were not the worst packet mix biscuits I’ve ever had but I reckon when we use the cutter and home made mixture next time it’ll be nicer.

The geomags and the animals came out then and a hybrid game of the last Dr Who episode, featuring the Cybermen which Davies had seen on the website earlier and an assortments of animal slaves based on the pigslaves all seemingly called Lazslo or Tallulah starred in a lengthy adventure. I made a geomag dalek for them and then retired back to my laptop.

There was a big fuss from Scarlett at teatime about tidying up but she got through it in the end, they had tea, Ady came home, they all watched Shaun the Sheep and eventually they went to bed, we had dinner and watched Inside I’m Dancing which I thought was excellent.