PW & The Great Outdoors

PW seems to mind the cold these days and has pretty much given up going outside entirely. His kidneys are starting to fail and he is using the litter box like it's going out of style! The sunny weather must have been very tempting because he did go out the other day much to Checkers' delight! He was disappointed that PW didn't seem interested in any of the cool snow games like chase, dive bomb the bank or flop & roll though.

Instrumental Project

Honey & Sweetie were assigned a project last month. They had to invent/design/build a musical instrument. I am not creative with these things and always cringe when these assignments come home. Luckily, they have no such qualms and came up with their own and made them with very little help from Murray or me.

Sweetie used two plastic containers and I glue gunned them back to back. She added the decorations and stapled a piece of balloon around one end and filled the other side with rice and put the cover on. The balloon side was for plucking to create a drumlike sound and the rice side was for shaking.

Honey's was called a FlipStar or en francais une Tournetoile. She taped some small spindles together to create the triangle shape, wrapped tin foil around it and filled it with beads and added the outer starry decor. When you hold handles and turn the instrument, the beads rattle around to create the sound.

Honey

Vday!

Happy Valentine's Day! You can imagine my excitement when Honey & Sweetie told me their teacher asked them to hand make their cards this year. Off we went to Pinterest and found these ideas. We found a picture one for Lovey that would work with a picture of Checkers so she was thrilled with that! It was a busy week with hockey and drama practice and arts and crafts were a bit tricky to fit in. Grammie was here on the Wednesday and helped with Honey's assembly line getting parts cut out. I was listing the different things Honey needed to do, homework, finish valentines, make supper when she interrupted me to say "Mum, I'm only one person!" I laughed but maybe that one person shouldn't have gotten involved in so many things!!! I don't know how many people she thinks I am!!!

Lovey wanted to be as "Valentinesy" as she could. She had on  all the pink clothes she could find, her valentine necklace from Nanny and Grampy, her heart earrings made by Grammie and all the other pink accessories she could get her hands on. She definitely got my vote!

Performers

Show time again for the school choir! They performed their sixties medley a few times last year and we got good mileage out of that pencil skirt we hacked together! Unfortunately it doesn't fit Lovey anymore and we had to go with plan B. MY poodle skirt from high school. I don't think it's actual 60's garb but several other girls had them and my affinity with sewing has not increased and this was ready made! My Grammie made it for me and I loooooooooooooooooove it still. Not many occasions to wear it even if it wasn't a wee bit bursting at them snug. We had to roll the waistband a bit for her but other than that it was great and she thought she was the bees knees! Honey was happy with her capris and blouse from last year and didn't want to change anything. (dodged a bullet there I tell you!)

Their group is huge! I swear their teacher is part Pied Piper! I can't believe the amount of students she gets participating. They're excited for every practice. It's much easier to get them out of bed on a choir practice day. The same teacher has started a drama club for their grade and they're going to be putting on a play of Wizard of Oz. Between choir and drama and band, I'm not sure how much outdoor recess Honey & Lovey get. It seems they have an activity every day. Sweetie has joined the dance club but other than that her only interest is her gymnastics so she plays outside for her recesses!

Skip Bo/Boo

Sunday dinners are getting more regular as hockey is winding down and we are getting some of our freedom back! Supper at Mum & Dad's is a treat I hate to miss each week as we get bogged down in games and practices. Nobody likes losing their day off right??? The girls got to play some cards after dinner with Grandad. Guess who didn't get her violin done but was very motivated to finish once the Skip Boo (for some reason my family pronounces it this way instead of Skip Bo as it says on the box!) came out? She only missed a couple hands though!

Ski Buddy/Bunny

I managed to talk Sweetie into skiing with me! Everyone else was at hockey so we hit the trails before her gymnastics class and the conditions were excellent! It was some of the best skiing I'd had all winter. You could glide and glide and it was fast going! We had to turn back to get her to her class but after watching her for awhile, I went back out for another 45 minutes and got another good run in!