Gone Bananas

The bananas have gone too ripe at home so I decided to make banana smoothie for breakfast. It's very easy to make.
I used a big bottle of muscle milk,(cow's milk) 1 cup per banana and 2 ripe bananas. Doesn't hurt to have an eager preschooler who wanted to help out. I assign Noel the job to cut bananas into pieces. He did a stellar job with the butter knife.

Put the bananas and milk into the blender and blend. Below, N enjoying his banana smoothie with a straw.

p/s: Don't forget to also get the eager beaver to help out using the blender. He was so thrilled when he get to press the button.

HO HO HO!!!

N found a santa hat and has been wearing them all the time.
Below is our conversation.

N: Hello Mom. (In his santa hat)

Me: Hello Noel.

N: I am not Noel. I am SANTA!

Me: <_>

Spiky Ankylosaurus

When I made the plateosaurus with N the other time, I thought that it got its name because we were using paper plate to make it.
I was so wrong. There was really a dinosaur called Plateosaurus. Anyhow, we made this spiky ankylosaurus with cardboard. It was pretty easy. N coloured two cardboard with colour he likes and then I cut them into its body, tail, head and legs and spikes. N had lots of fun gluing the spikes and he also tried to arrange the spiky teeth and eyes.

Playgroup

Here are some pictures I took when I brought the boys to a playgroup at a local church. It's held every Friday on school semester and it's a rather popular one. I usually meet up with a friend who brings her son there too. It starts with freeplay, group singing, morning tea and finished with craftwork. Last semester, they learned about insects. noel has also grown a pot of grass from seeds and made quite a bit of crafts.

Above, Abel was chilling out on the bean bag. He usually plays on the mat with babies his age group while N would be outdoors playing with the motorbikes etc. Below N chose to dress up as a tiger. He plays with the toaster, he chose to play with the cymbal during the group music session. I miss attending playgroups.

A day to remember..

A day to remember for the newlyweds and all the guests. Our friends' eldest daughter R got married sometime in September. Theme was purple and silver. Our pastor was the minister and he has known the groom since he was 3 and the bride when he's in her teenage years. We also dressed the boys up for the ocassion. Cupcakes and the wedding cakes were all baked by friends. It was definitely one of the sweetest wedding I've attended in a long time.

Baking session

Again, this is activities that we did together while I was on my extended leave. I decided to let Noel help me with baking. We decided to do gingerbread man. His involvement was to pour flours. He got very excited and also somehow got his face covered with flour. After cleaning his face, I got him to cut the gingerbread man from the cookie dough and also to decorate the gingerbread man. It's a very fun activity. He describes what he is doing and he also choose how to decorate the gingerbread man ie giving him raisins on their legs, making eyes, giving them a hat, etc etc..how did the gingerbread man taste? It was okay. It wasn't very sweet as I chose a recipe which used the least sugar or sweet syrup. Next time, I won't bake so much because we got sick of it pretty quickly.

something new..

I love browsing the supermarket aisles. My absolute favourite aisles are the baby aisles, the toiletries, and the spreads (jams, the like) and also the cereals and the laundry powder. *Ooops, it's nearly all the aisles. Cadbury in recent years have tried to develop new products, and over the last year they launched many new flavours. They even ventured into the 'dessert' category in their chocolate, ie the banofee and blackforest flavour. I didn't like them all that much. This winter, they released this 'bar of plenty'.
It's definitely a keeper for me. Btw, did you all notice how all the manufacturers have downsized their products ?