Falling behind

I can't believe Christmas is only a week away and that 2008 will be over in just a couple of weeks. It's all gone too quickly. We have been busy the past couple of weeks getting ready for Christmas and a few other things and unfortunately the blog has been a bit neglected.

Last week we started a little pre-school for Sam, Ella and two friends that live in the neighborhood. Each Mum takes their turn teaching. It was my turn last week and our class was on winter. It was lots of fun. The kids had a great time being bears hibernating for the winter, making snowmen pictures and playing in snow (shaving cream!). The great thing is that I take two mornings and then get 4 mornings free! We are planning to do it just twice a week and will start again after Christmas.

Here's the class playing in shaving cream snow. Notice how much Sam and John have on their hands? The girls weren't so keen on getting their hands messy.

I left Owen for a few minutes while I cleaned the boys up and this is how I found him!! He smelled of shaving cream for the rest of the day!
Sam has been begging us to put up his train that he got from Grandpa Bingham last year for Christmas. We finally got around to it last Saturday. The spare bedroom has now become the train room! Sam has already spent hours in there watching his train go around and around or just pushing it around the track. The trains could almost be considered antiques (I think they were built in the 1950's). Sam takes very good care of them and does not like anyone to drive them too fast or push them off the tracks.


It almost feels like spring already!! The past few days have been warm and humid. A great chance for the kids to get outside and enjoy the backyard. Here they "camping" and having a picnic of chips and gingerbread cookies.