Our first week of April school holidays was a fully planned busy week. We started the week with a birthday, had two library events, and a coffee date lined up. It was going to be a busy week. It was. But there were also some changes. Munchkin came down with a head cold Tuesday afternoon that Monkey and I promptly caught as well. We still had a busy week, but as it went along it slowly ground down to a stop. Therefore, there aren't as many photos as I had hoped, but enjoy watching our crazy week unfold...
First off - Monkey finished this beautiful drawing of "Daniel in the Lion's Den" for our pastor's wife. It took him two weeks to complete it and I think it was well worth the wait. He did a beautiful job on it. So good in fact, our Pastor's wife has warned that she will ask him to do another drawing later in the year.
I try to spend Sunday afternoon reading and relaxing. This was the stack of books I chose to work on and I got at least one chapter of each read before it was time to cook dinner and continue with the evening activities.
The "Munchkin" is 12 years old!
I'm not quite sure how this happened.
He is funny, intelligent, caring, and loves life.
Cooking, baking, and growing things all fascinate him and I'm excited to see where the future takes him.
The week started with Munchkin's birthday on Monday. So it was blueberry pancakes and bacon for breakfast - which is a tradition for all the men in the family!!
The birthday boy was eager to eat the food he helped prepare.
Breakfast on the veranda.
After breakfast it was time to bake the cake. Somehow through the day, I forgot to take any other photos of the cake baking. Or the decorating for that matter.
An afternoon game of Forbidden Desert - again a request of the birthday boy.
No photos of the special birthday dinner but he requested garlic and herb sausages, fried sweet potatoes, corn, and Kraft macaroni and cheese.
His finished and decorated birthday cake. He did the baking and the decorating.
Candles and singing!
Tuesday was his first library event - and it was all about acid and base reactions.
First they did the simple baking soda and vinegar experiment...
Then they filled a balloon with baking soda...
Attached it to a bottle with vinegar in it...
And captured their own balloon full of carbon dioxide!!
Finally they got to make their own flavoured sherbet (whizz fizz) to take home.
It was a fun day out but it was the beginning of the downhill slide for all of us.
Wednesday was a rest day for me as I desperately tried NOT to get sick. I sat in the sun on the veranda drinking lots of fluids and reading lots of books!
YES - I am reading ALL of these books at once.
However, for those of you who might be freaking out, thanks to my head cold and forced rest time this week, I've finished three of the books on this stack already!
Despite being sick, Munchkin and I headed back to the library on Thursday for a frogs event he was signed up for. It was well worth going to especially since we got to look at these gorgeous tadpoles.
Finally, when Munchkin remembered that we hadn't checked on the garlic we planted at the beginning of the month, we discovered that it is sprouting already. This has him VERY confused because it wasn't supposed to start growing this soon so we'll see what happens in the weeks to come. Perhaps garlic is able to grow year round in Australia.
Three big walk (all to the shopping centre) this week and with my head cold it was two walks too many.
This is a random addition of a photo taken back at the beginning of March. In the process of our move I "misplaced" the battery charger to my big Canon DSLR camera and so once the battery died I couldn't use it anymore. Thankfully, hubby stumbled across the charger when he was unpacking some boxes in the office and now I have use of my big camera again. I'm really happy as I have been wanting to take lots of photos on some of my walks. So you can all look forward to much more interesting photos in the future.
Lucky last (again taken on my DSLR though it is a current photo) Munchkin was thrilled to find the beginnings of actual tomatoes on the tomato plant. We had some wind and rain that battered it a bit, and we need to fix the climber rings a bit to support it more, so we were worried that we might not get any fruit. But it seems we will at least get two tomatoes and there ARE more flowers on the plant.
Now let's hope that week two of the holidays is healthier for everyone!!
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