May Photo A Day pics

I know I still have a blog ... been very slack at updating it sorry.  Doing a bit of a catch-up now.  Here's my pics from May photo a day.  Again I used the prompts from the FMS blog for this month most days.  

Day 1 - I bought this.  Maddison bought this My Little Pony with money from her money box and had great fun colouring it and adding the stickers :-)

Day 2 - Morning Ritual.  I actually read this as morning routine so took a self timer pic of me making sandwiches for the kids lunches.

Day 3 - This is Really Good!  Aaron & Maddison's school concert today.  Was quite neat to see their performances.

2nd pic of the day :-)  Maddison's class at the top (she's on the far left).  Aaron's class on the bottom, he's 2nd from the left.

Day 4 - In My Cup.  Well that would be ice peach tea in my bottle of course :-)

Maddison went to a school friends birthday party this day as well.  

And I couldn't resist taking a photo of the sunset reflected in the clouds in the east that night.

Day 5 - Malaysian General Election 2013, so took a photo of some of the MANY party flags around the city.

Day 6 - Broken.  Finally got a replacement cover for my ironing board!  Long over due.

Day 7 - Something beginning with F ... fragrant frangipani flower.

Day 8 - Shape.   Took a pic of this painted wall as we were driving past.  Looks quite effective ... much more exciting that boring grey concrete colour!

Day 9 - school field trip with Aaron's G2 class to Kidzania. I looked after these 3 young men.

A very noisy, messy end to the day!  Maddison cut her finger on a metal tape measure.  She got 3 stitches in her right middle finger. Good job she's left handed! The Dr said the tendons were okay thankfully, (and it's healed really good).

Day 11 - A Smile ... Samuel with the icing beater.  I was making his birthday cake.

We celebrated his birthday 2 days early as Lyndon was away for work on the actual day.  I made him a dinosaur cake with a little volcano on it :-)

Day 12 - Mother.  Mothers Day with my 3 little cherubs!

Day 13 - Maddison's teacher organised a mothers day morning tea.  The kids had all made their Mum's a very cool mothers day book.  It's a real keepsake :-)

 Day 13- The prompt today was Sunrise/Sunset.  I actually remembered to get both today!

Day 14 - I missed taking a photo for Day 14 photo but Lyndon sent me this drawing he did in a text message so that's going in my PL album too :-)

Day 15 - Aaron started Kumon.

Day 16 - much needed tidy up of my craft area ... still a lot to do, but I can see my desk better now!

Day 17 - sports day for both Samuel and Aaron.  Samuel didn't participate in his at all!  Aaron did well in his duathlon and came in third in his heat.

Day 18 - using prompt "mailbox" from day 16.

Day 21 - Had to get a pic of Samuel swimming with his lion and tiger while waiting for his swim instructor to arrive.

Day 22 - Homework time.

Day 23 - both Aaron and Maddison had a playdate today, so Samuel and I had some special time together :-)  Yummy frozen yoghurt.

Day 24 - Painting a picture of Daddy to hang on the wall.  Maddison drew him wearing "gloobes" (gloves!) hehehe

Day 25 - Skateboard ramp at our condo has started to be pulled down.  The safety measures are non-existent.  There was lots of exposed cut metal which was really dangerous.

Day 26 - Beautiful sunrise at 7.15am.

Still Day 26 - first time I have ever seen a full rainbow in Malaysia.  Kids were excited about seeing one too.

 Day 27 - Someone drove their Ferrari into Tom's tank!!

Day 28 - Aaron finished his Diorama on the Horned Lizard.

Day 29 - Transportation Project with Maddison's class.  She made the rocket at home with Daddy, and her and I made the "cruise liner" in class :-)   

Day 30 - Maddison's school field day (pre kindy and kindy classes)

Day 31- Aaron's school field day (grades 1 and 2)

Will try and get back with some other updates in the next couple of days.

Thanks again for visiting.

9 Days till Christmas!

Whoa!  Is this month flying past or what!?!  Here's what we've been up to the last week and a bit.

On Saturday the 8th Maddison and I had some girl time.  We went to a mall and met a friend for brunch and did a little bit of shopping.  Maddison wanted her photo taken in this "garden"!

Paddington House of Pancakes was where we ate!  Delicious :-)

Maddison thought so too :-)

Wednesday 12th I was mystery reader in Maddison's class :-)  Nana, Samuel and I went down to school after the kids got on the bus.  Maddison didn't know we were coming :-)

I read them the Dr Seuss book "The Grinch who stole Christmas".

And I made them a scrumptious snack!  :-)

hehehee ... Grinch boogers - hand picked just for you!  :-)

Popcorn covered (and I mean covered!) in sugar, sugar, sugar and green food colouring.

Samuel played with the blocks and animals while I read.

When we got home he had a wee chat to Tom and told him about his cars!

I took a pic of myself at 12.12pm that day as it was the 12th of the 12th of 2012.  Making cookies in a messy kitchen and the bench covered in dishes.  Pretty normal really!!

Samuel played a game or 3 of connect four.

That evening I iced the cookies, with help from Nana.  I made them for Maddison's end of year party the next day.

Thursday 13th - made a batch or 4 of gingerbread men.

I had EVERY intention of icing them like reindeer, but the first one the icing was too thick and it didn't look right, and then the icing bag split.  So thinned the icing and changed bags and managed to do two which were okay, then the bag split again and then I had trouble getting the icing to flow again.  So I gave up!

Turned the gingerbread men all around the right way again and put on a thicker nozzle on a new icing bag and iced them like this.  Was a lot quicker!  :-)  These were for Aaron to give to his class mates as a Christmas treat.  (Aaron and Maddison had a reindeer each in their lunch box that day!)

Then we went down to Maddison's party.  One of the Mum's had made these really cool snowmen.  :-)

14th December was Aaron and Maddison's last day of school for the year.  It was also the Grade 1 and 2 Christmas Concert that morning.  So Lyndon, Samuel, Nana and Grandad and myself went along to that.  The 4 Grade 2 classes sung songs in Malay, Chinese and Indian. Aaron's class sung a couple of Indian songs and they all wore Indian costumes.  Aaron didn't want to wear Indian pants though, so wore his jeans with his shirt!

He sung a little solo as well.

and I grinned to myself when he turned around to go back to his place and his hands were like that behind his back :-)

Afterwards Samuel had some special hugs for his big brother!

Then they all got up on stage for some photos.

Saturday 15th.  Aaron completed his Reward Chart.  Not sure if I have spoken about it on my blog, but I bought a hotwheels track that he really wanted some time ago.  I took a photo of it and printed one out in colour and one in black and white.  The black and white copy got taped to his bedroom door.  The coloured copy I cut up into 28 puzzle pieces.  Every time he did awesome at something he got a puzzle piece to stick on his chart.  Sometimes a piece got removed if he was especially nasty.  Yesterday he earned the last 3 pieces by doing helpful things!  Great excitement.  Hopefully now it will encourage Maddison to work a bit harder to earn puzzle pieces for her reward (which is a Barbie doll with a baby).

16th December - Samuel enjoying watermelon after dinner!  Hope the stains come out of his shirt!

Thanks for visiting.