Monthly Archives: November 2011
Gingerbread Houses & More
Ronan and Maddox with our finished Gingerbread house. |
Gingerbread house has a very glittery roof. |
Decorated with lots of candy and sweets! |
Green handprints to decorate the tree at Maddox’s school |
Maddox decorated his ornament for the tree. |
Maddox with his decorated ornament…with a quite a lot of glitter! |
A sleigh ride decorated with paper and material in different colours. |
Decorating a snowman with scrunched up paper. |
Last craft was to make and decorate his own Christmas Wreath which he got to bring home today. |
Ready to Deck the Halls with Christmas Cheer! |
Caterpillar…to eat or not to eat?
Nativity Scene
We received yet another package from Mimi and Papa in Illinois which contained even more craft supplies for Christmas. The boys are still wanting to do something every night from what we have so far, but my partner and I have been trying our best to pace the boys. Tonight we were going through the supplies for the Nativity costumes and so it felt fitting to make our nativity scene. We did not have any directions to follow, so the boys used the finished photo of the craft to figure out how to put it together. They enjoyed putting together the three Kings which had the most assembling required. Ronan finally took down the left over Halloween decorations from the shelf and we put them aside to make room for the Christmas crafts. Below is a photo of the finished scene, but we will be hiding the Baby Jesus until it is time for him to arrive as to keep with the Nativity story. With the craft spirits still going strong, Ronan went on to colour photos and made a very nice Batman one. Perhaps he could visit the Nativity scene to see Baby Jesus too? |
Our Christmas shelf with the Nativity scene that the boys put together. |
The boys ready for the challenge of putting together a Christmas craft. |
What is more Christmas-y than Batman? Ronan’s drawing this evening. |
‘B’ is for Baking
Sainsburys Scavenger Hunt
Friday is here and upon finishing my last client for the day at the Salon, I ran to the rail station to catch the next train home. I got out a little late and so I made the train it by literally seconds. Getting off the train I walked straight over to my kids’ school to pick them up. I got there just in time to see Ronan returning from the pool for swimming day. He had a fun day at the new pool and was excited to tell me all about his adventure. With a bag full of supplies for the kids’ nativity costumes, their school bags, and the PE kit we started our walk home. Unfortunately as we reached our front door I realized that my keys were hanging safely on my jacket hook in our entry way and not in my bag. With the sun setting earlier and the weather getting colder, going to the park or waiting in the stairwell would both be out of the question. I texted my partner who was still meeting with his class at Uni in Brighton. With two different trains to get back home, it could be an hour before we could inside our home. So what to do? I took my kids to the Sainsburys grocery store down the street and browse. We did okay but the store was quite cold. Solution? A scavenger hunt brought to you by a friend of mine over text messages. The boys found something and they got rewarded with a photo of something Batman related. Moods got uplifted and soon it was time to head back home.
Christmas Tree lit up in our town. |
Maddox looking at the Christmas Decorations |
Scavenger Hunt at Sainsbury’s to pass the time and cure boredom. |
Found a fruit that does not start with a vowel, and Ronan is beaming with excitement. |
Reindeer Max |
Found a little Charlie Brown tree. Might put it on our Holiday list. |
My 29th Birthday
Birthday Dinner with my two boys. |
Ronan decorating his Nutcracker. |
Maddox’s finished decoration. Mummy got to colour it with him. |
Ronan with his finished nutcracker. |
Ronan made me a special wrapper with a drawing for my Birthday card. |
The Front of my Birthday card. |
The inside of my card. |
The back of my card. |
My 29 Birthday scones and a cup of tea. Happy Birthday me. |