Merry Christmas

The dog knows how to make himself comfortable... 

It's been a very Lego Christmas.

A nutritious breakfast.... err ok it IS Christmas!

A BABY! She was very very excited.

And a Princess and the Pea.

Ritual humiliation.

Lunch!

Close company.

I do like sprouts. Honest I do. She didn't need to make me eat them.

The crackers had a penguin race theme and we all got a penguin to race. Much fun!

And he got to get his hands on my brother's Leatherman.

It's December so that must mean the beach...

Home made fun.

Isabel loves play doh. She will play with it for hours and hours every day (and then leave it out so it gets dry and horrid) so we go through a lot of play doh. I have given up buying it as it's so easy to make. I don't think I ever use the same recipe twice as I just pick one at random off the internet. I usually split the dry ingredients and then I can make two colours, although they get mixed together pretty quickly. This one was a no cook version and I added glitter as I there was some to hand. 

Isaac made his own den and played games on the ipod.

So it's been a little quiet...

on the old blog. 

Matthew has been away a fair bit, the kids have been hogging the laptop and when they weren't hogging it they were washing it and so it's been to the laptop hospital for a little while... It's finally back and I can start to regain life.

We had a lovely day on the street with a front garden market. I made some crayon rolls and some cakey bits and bobs and my mum was around with some of her knitted bits and we had a fun (but very cold!) day. It was a big success in terms of community atmosphere as well as being fun and I took nearly £100 which is never a bad thing. 

My neighbour made gorgeous cupcakes and hot chocolate (any hot food or drink sold very well as we were all very cold).

We had a muddy walk in the woods. Isabel took her binoculars.

And we had Hannukah doughnuts.