Snow.... Again

Lately...

First is a video that I forgot to post from when we were at Helen and Buu's. So cute! Ben was singing too but I was too late with the video. 

Hughes and Lam children sing! from Emma Hughes on Vimeo.

Below is a picture that Eli drew for a competition. He had to draw his favourite story from Martin and Sylvia (the 'sparkle stories' that he listens to) This is Martin, Sylvia and Daddy helping salamanders get across the road safely!

Wearing his new TRFC shirt :-)

First snow of the season. Hardly any but they insisted in playing in it!

Best part of homeschooling is doing school in our pyjamas cosy on the couch! Here he is doing his weekly spelling test!

Eli is really into making board games at the moment. This is the second one he has made. It's a superhero game!

 Immy is slowly taking more interest in writing. She is really enjoying these number tracing cards.

Eli has had Immy doing math work books! She has been so into it and listens to him helping her! She has asked to do it every day!!

From Instagram: My little ballerina.

(And some of the 20+ outtakes! actually she was just being a goof the whole time and I was taking pictures and  happened to catch the one above as she posed for less than a second!) 

 We have been learning about hieroglyphics and cuneiform writing and made our own clay cuneiform  names. 

Eli made the top one. He refused to make his name as it was too hard to write so he looked at the alphabet to see what was easiest and he said "I'll do Jay - Daddies friend, as that's really easy to write!"

My turn....the top one is Eli and bottom one is Imogen.

And Immy made up her own alphabet...this says Imogen! 

Cold day at the park

The kids new favourite thing to do is look through the various toy catalogues that have landed in the mail box recently. I've never seen them study something so intently ever. 

 A recent walk at Fairy Lake

Apparently the walk was too much for Eli! 

 Immy and her horse

And another horse...

Being silly with the lights while we were putting up the tree. 

I found the santa shirt for Immy (below Eli) while I was shopping last week and then had to find one for Eli so he didn't feel left out (its all about equality these days!) Do you know how hard it is to find a santa tshirt in a size 10-12 for my giant child?!

We were convinced the little ones to put up the tree last weekend. Earliest ever! Love my tree with almost all home-made ornaments!

Eli insisted on putting the star on first instead of last....kinda threw me but I went with it lol!

The lovely little nativity scene that we got from Emmas shop last year. So cute but unfortunately it never looks like this as Immy is loving playing with it!

How long until we lose the tiny little baby Jesus like all the other nativities we have had!

Immy wearing their Minnie and Mickey stockings!

Random shot of Eli in his gym class

We put some of our lights out. Need to convince the hubs to let me get some reindeers ;-)

The power went out last Sunday for most of the evening and night. The kids, who like lamps on when they sleep, slept by (battery operated) candle light! 

Immy on top and Eli below!

"Sweetie"

Immy is playing "going to the ball" she just asked me if I would play. I said "sure, who should I be"? She says "can you be the mother but use a nicer voice [than your own] and always call me sweetie".  Guess I know where I fall short as a mother now!

Incase you are wondering this is what 4 year olds look like going to the ball these days...

Halloween

Since we were away for most of October we didn't really do the pumpkin thing this year. We visited a pumpkin patch on Tuesday before Halloween and got a few mini pumpkins and one big one. We got some Halloween Mr. Potato head decorations in Target on Halloween day for $2 so the kids attempted to put them on the mini pumpkins. You can barely even tell there's a pumpkin behind Eli's pirate!

Eli's  ghost pumpkin

This is Eli at about 4pm waiting for people to come to trick or treating...I told him he had a good 2 hours before anyone showed up but he said he wanted to be ready so would wait anyway!

Super man and Wonderwoman ready for trick or treating

 It was raining so hard they got soaked but didn't care! 

 Immy started ballet last week. She is the one to the left who has decided that whatever they are being taught to do is boring and ...oh hey why not do my own little dance over here grrr!!!

Latest  obsession is 'Marvel' superheros!

Love the serious pose!

A maze made by Eli