Last weekend I came in to find the girls both dressed as cats rolling around the floor in the living room - they were both going 'meow!'
One was called rainbow heart and the other pink sparkly - pink sparkly ended up asleep on the sofa with Tom the cat.
Then the next day they were pussy cats again - Mary seems to think she is a pink version of the 'wolf' out of Where the Wild Things Are.
Rainbow Heart or Jeany as I call her seems to have a new cheeky pose thing going on - I struggle to get her not to pull the cheeky face for photos!
See what I mean?
I think they enjoyed themselves.
So Jean has run out of reading books to read at school so they are giving her factual books instead, so far she has brought home ones on photography, democracy, Egypt and this weeks one was Kenya. She got very excited about this as I had done a talk on my time in Kenya a few weeks previously for Al's cub pack.
She started asking me questions and then disappeared upstairs - there was a picture of typical Kenyan dress so she ferreted through stuff and produced a costume she announced to be Kenyan Jean.
It was: my mothers old belly dancing outfit or harem pants from the 60's, tights with rainbow wellies (she said it was too cold for no shoes and sandles), then she had on a t-shirt with a sparkly 2000 on it covered in her victorian style red coat. On her head my hawaiian wrap around skirt - it was surprisingly effective though it looked more Ethiopian too me compared to what I saw in Kenya though I'm aware there were different styles of dress depending on Tribe etc...
She went to the park like it - initially I was worried that people might take it the wrong way but then I thought - you know she is not taking the micky she is interested in another culture and playing and as it was people only smiled.
Also I pointed out she looked a bit like my nan as she always used to wear a head scarf to stop the wind mucking up her hair! (think Mrs Figg out of Harry Potter!).
After Mary's belated birthday party we had two of Jean's friends stay over for the first ever sleep over which was fun for them but did result in a wee-wee incident and a bedroom you could no longer see the floor of!
Jeany was a little pedant and when I'd told the kids to move the luandary from the bottom bunk so the kids could sleep - I unthinkingly told Jean to move 'All her cloths' so they emptied the wardrobe and draws too but left the baby's cloths in place :/
After they went we did a bit of a clear up and Alaric went off to finish his ladder. Jean and my friend Charlee who had also stayed disappeared off and our garden was suddenly infested by giant pandas! I think it was a mummy and a baby!
As we can see they had a good time.
I especially like this photo of the baby panda!
And this one of the big panda hugging the girls 🙂
Mary found a little LED flashing ring that Jean had bought at a festival and she would not put it down!
My mum has been knitting Jeany a rainbow jacket for ages and Sunday was the day of trying it on - Jean loved it so much she refused to take it off even though it is not yet finished!
Mary was very excited to be the bell ringer for lunch time 🙂
She had a great day of opening presents and cards and exploring the garden in the lovely sunshine which we had all so missed!
I hunted around and got this camera as a late birthday present - my family gave me some money and so did Alaric (mainly I think out of desperation as I kept stealing his phone). It was in a sale so was £40 cheaper than it should have been and infact still is on the manufactures website - this allowed me to get a case for it as well and stick to my £100 budget. It's 14 mega pixels - there was a lovely 16 mega pixel camera but it was only reduced by £10 and I would have had no money for a case.
The above was medium light levels with no flash - it would have come out very dark with the previous camera and grainy.
I am ecstatic with it and am driving everyone potty with it - Jean is now ignoring it!
One of the first things I did was check the zoom and light levels.
The shape of the camera makes it easier to hold without shaking which was a big problem with previous cameras - I am having the problem of zooming in too far and I am still adjusting to focal lengths etc... so am getting a few blurry duff pics. Of course I have not yet read the manual and am 'winging' it which is not the best way but a very Sarah way!
I ment to start cooking them at like 5 but I went for what was supposed to be a short nap and nobody wanted to wake me up so I got up at 7:30 :/
I was grumpy but it was decided that the girls could stay up late and at 9 o'clock we finally had pancakes!
We had savoury and sweet and so on and the girls really enjoyed it!
Jean, Mary | sarah | 
Wed 6th Mar 2013 8:14 pm | 
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