Day 17 – the Queen of the Fairy Godmothers (by sarah)

The queen of the fairy godmothers visited the climbing centre today and told off a very naughty elf who would not share the Chocs and spoke to Father Christmas about all the good children and told stories about a little mouse and enjoyed the crafts very very much.

Also my mum phoned me up to tell me I look like my great out Sylvie, this made me smile - the skirt is made out of head scarves and wraps some of which are my nan and great aunts scarves 🙂

I did discover that cutting out the poetry at the beginning is actually the wrong thing to do as it get the children settled, it was a fab day 🙂

(phone photos)

Day 16 (by sarah)

Painting 16 is a mythical type castle tower - I am looking forward to discovering the story behind the tower 🙂

Also on the 12th we had the Posada family - a little wooden nativity set that makes the rounds round the village and appears in the church (even though we don't live in the village anymore we still get a turn), Mary was most concerned that the baby Jesus did not have a blanket even though I explained what the swaddling was. So I ended up knitting a little sleeping bag - I think Al packed it away with the figures though as I haven't seen it since!

(photos)

Advent 14 (by sarah)

This is day 14 of Advent and this is water colour number 14 - I call it The Gateway and there will def. be a story. In the mean time my toddler is astute.

Mary: where's the cat door? Me: we don't have one Mary: why? Me: because we haven't gotten around to installing one yet Mary: poor cats shakes head Mummy make the cat door

Day 8 – Ice Castle and Santa (by sarah)

This is day 8's painting 🙂

Jean has discovered that she can use the concept of Father Christmas to cajole her little sister into helping with bedroom tidying - they still end up arguing.

I My Life (by sarah)

Mary:

'I got little tiny life I like my life In my Gloucester I got a tiny life I happy cos' I got Harry Potter in my life And I got Dr Who in my life I has a cat dog in my little life Look - HERE KITTEN (kitten comes over) I got strawberries in my life In my Gloucester Can I get strawberries?'

Me:

'Yes' (we pick strawberries)

Mary:

'Oh wow! I got strawberries in my tiny life I like my life I got eggs for lunch Come on chickens make lunch! I feeds strawberries to you I got aaaaaaaaa cute in my life I sad'

Me:

'Why are you sad Mary?'

Mary:

'I lost my Jeany And my Daddy They not in my Gloucester'

Me:

'Jean's at school'

Mary:

'oh'

Me:

'Daddy's at work - they'll be back'

Mary:

'Back to my gloucester? (I nod) I like my life I got a Jeany and Daddy and Bear... My best friends James and Molly and Lilly but she's at climbing not school I like birthdays In my Gloucester I like my life I like cake Hello kitty is pink I like pink I like hello kitty I has a little life'

(scurries off and shows me that she knows how to put a DVD on including turning the TV and xbox on - earlier today she resigned herself to the fact she can't undo the doors to the outside world as I've locked them and hidden the keys so she tried to pick the lock with a paper clip instead. She was going to take her dog to the shops Lithium was indeed standing by her waiting.)

p.s. she babbles in a way Jean just didn't!