Who has the most spots?

The dress or the lady bug???!

Maddison had art class today after school and they painted a rock like a lady bug. It's very cute with it's googly eyes, but I sure hope that black paint comes off her dress!!!

I asked the art teacher why Maddison didn't wear an apron today and she assured me she did and then when she saw Maddison's dress she got such a shock! ;-) (so did I haha)

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Happy Mail

The lovely Janine organised a tea towel swap ... I joined in too, but I got whoever bought for me to send to my Mum! (so I didn't have to wait 72 days hehee).

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Mum sent me a text to say it arrived so I phoned her and said "don't forget you have to take photos for me!" :-) So here's what I got from Kim. :-)

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Beautiful card.

Beautiful package.
Lovely bright tea towels and some stamps and trinkets (well that's what Mum said it was!)
Cool stamps huh ... I likely very much. :-)
Thanks so much Kim. Can't wait to pick this up in the next couple of months when we go back for a visit.

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Here's a wee sneak peak of what I put together for my swap buddy :-)

Did you know that finding nice tea towels in KL is very difficult!!!

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Thanks again to Janine for organising the swap and to Kim for her lovely gift.

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Green is great!

Well that's what the kids think anyway! :-) Aaron told Maddison all about his green eggs and ham breakie at school so of course she wanted that too (actually she wanted it for dinner last night, but I said I would make it for breakfast today). So that's what they had. (Nice and bright thanks to the apple green food colouring I had.) :-)

There was a little bit of smoked chicken left over from lunch the day before so they had that for their ham (I didn't colour it green though!)

Samuel just had his usual rice bubbles and yogurt :-)

On a different note ...

The problem with living in an apartment is when the kids decide to dig in the dirt it's a bothersome mess! If they were digging in a garden in the back yard it wouldn't be a worry. But on a balcony it's a great deal of work!

First you have to physically remove the kids from the mess and plonk them in the shower (because they don't just have dirt all over the balcony it's all over them as well). Then, when they are clean and occupied with something that's dirt free, the shower and balcony needs to be scrubbed! The dirt can stain the tiles, so you can't just hose it down, it really does need to be scrubbed.) About an hour later it's all clean! (Till the next time!)

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Today is Dr Seuss's Birthday

The grade 1 students at Aaron's school celebrated by having a "green eggs & ham" breakfast in honor of Dr Seuss. I went down to take some photos and it was so fun to see the teachers had dressed up as well (although Aaron's teacher won the prize for best dressed!!) She looked fabulous.

Green Eggs & Ham ... Aaron said it was quite tasty hehee

When I left they were all back in their class and the kids from their buddy class (grade 5) were reading Dr Seuss stories to them. Sounds a pretty fun school day to me! :-)

Real life around here ...

Some pictures taken over the last 10 days.

Samuel has learnt to open the dryer door and I often find him hiding inside!

Bit harder to get out though hehee
Last Sunday we made sandwiches for lunch using Aaron's "recipe" :-) I cut everything for them and they made their own.
Between 4 and 5pm every Tuesday to Friday usually finds us doing this ...

Maddison reading quietly by herself (or sometimes drawing).
Aaron doing his homework and Samuel sitting on my knee having cuddles! (He'd just woken up from a sleep.)
I think we finally have this homework "chore" sorted! It's taken a while. Roll on the day when I don't need to sit with him so he stays in his seat!! ;-)

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I suppose it would be more real life if I had pictures of me sweating my way through a huge pile of ironing late at night in the 30deg heat wouldn't it! haha I think I'll pass on blogging those sort of pics!

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