Keeping Busy While Baby Keeps us Waiting!!

So yesterday was my due date, but there's still no sign of ought happening...

Last week I spent my days tidying the house, scrubbing it from top to bottom and getting rid of all the big and little dust bunnies... (Needless to say the long weekend undid most of that hard work)

With Dylan off school this week, and with his cough and the frosty wet weather, we've been looking for ways to keep us busy.

We've put up a giant spider web:

Gone for a walk in the woods and made an autumnal wreath (we didn't do much foragng- hense the sparse decoration!!):

This was really easy to do...
Just get somebody with super-human strength (in this case, my Dad!) to bend a wire coat hanger into a circle, attach pine-cones, conker shells etc with garden wire and tie on a ribbon.... Quick and painless- will look for more foresty finds to spruce (ha ha) it up a bit if baby still hasn't arrived by the weekend...


We made spooky halloween biscuits this morn, and have just finished decorating (and unsticking our fingers, lips and chins) them! For the biscuits just rub together butter (150g) & flour (225g) in a bowl. Mix in caster sugar (125g) & a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Roll out the dough and cut. Bake for 15-20 mins @ gas mark 4/ 175'C:

Getting Freaky!!!

Wow, I just lost an entire blog entry thanks to an over-sensitive mouse....

This morning there was a definite chill in the air and a slight mist around, it properly felt like Halloween...




When we got to the schoolyard, teacher said she had a surprise for Dylan and his classmates. After school, Dylan let me in on the surprise~ teacher had decorated the classroom for Halloween. Dylan was super-excited and wanted to put his pumpkin costume on then and there and go Trick-or-Treating!! Having made him a hot chocky and explaining that Halloween was still weeks away, and that the new baby would probably be here before then, we decided instead to scare Daddy with some home-made decorations.



So this afternoon we cranked up the ‘Glee’ soundtrack (well ‘Proud Mary’ on loop!!) raided the art press and made some batty bats:

They were super easy (and more importantly, fun) to make. All we needed was:

• Black paper

• Black crepe/tissue paper

• Googly eyes/sticky dots

• White crayon/chalk

• Scissors

• Sticky tape

• Sticky tack

• Glue & paintbrush

• Elastic thread

• Magazine/newspaper

First, crumple the newspaper/magazine paper into balls (we made 5) and wrap in black tissue/crepe paper. Secure with tape

Next, fold the black paper in half and cut out wing shapes. Stick on top of the balls.

Glue on googly eyes and attach a length of elastic thread to the top of the bats. Chase each other round the kitchen screeching like a bat and then climb on a chair to stick the bats to the ceiling with sticky tack. Dim the lights and wait for Daddy to come home. Put your hands over your ears while he screams like a little girl!!!!! If you have more time, and Daddy is not due home from work at any second, cut out some triangles from the black paper and glue as ears. Draw on fangs with the white chalk/crayons.

To make a simple, but effective cobweb picture, paint a cobweb to black paper with glue and stick on lengths of white wool or pipe-cleaners. Other coloured pipe-cleaners can be used to make spiders...

What a fun & freaky afternoon!!