It seems like such a long time since I posted, probably because time flies when you’re having fun. Christmas has been and gone, this year we had a lovely day with lots of Lego building, games and even a film. We spent a long time constructing a Hornby train set and we have all begin to learn the secret language of Furby. It makes me remember when they came out the first time around, complete with a huge dictionary. This time you can get them to interact with one another, they develop different characters apparently and work out what they want, what they are saying and feed them via an i-pod app! They do provide moments of amusement but the high pitch can become wearing. The children have had great fun seeing if they could get them to do different things and I am not sure whether it is their own characters imprinting or the fact that the toys are all different colours but they have developed different characteristics.
Then came New Year, the little two slept through the chimes of Big Ben but Hpops was still up and able to see in the New Year. Getting her to keep sensible hours has proven difficult of late, she seems to be a night owl preferring to stay up until much later than she should and stay in bed long after she should be ready for school! Still as the school routine sort of gets back to normal I am hoping it will resolve her ability to stay up too late. However as many people have discovered of late the snow has been a bit disruptive, however here in Essex we seemed to escape the worst of it, several times the yellow and amber warnings came to nothing! However last Sunday the snow finally came much to the pleasure of the children, as after lunch enough had accumulated for a bit of sledging, and to build a snow cat. A production line was set up with children filling recycling boxes with snow and adults stamping the snow down and upending them after they had set, then the building began.
It started off as a dog kenned then Pixie used a bucket to make snow ice creams which she put on the roof, this looked a little like a snow train but then with a few more ‘ice creams’ it looked like a cat. Stone eyes and snow paws were added and now we have our very own maintenance free pet at least until it ‘warms’ up this weekend!
