My Susie doll...

This is Susie. Susie was my doll when I was a toddler....My Mom and dad can probably correct the story but as far as I can remember from what they have told me, I would be pushed around Woolworths in Yeovil and always reach out for this doll. I wasn't interested in any white dolls at all - I just wanted this one black dolly. No idea why. Santa got her for me for Christmas :) I named her Susie.

Today I mentioned to Jennifer that I had only been able to name ONE of my children - my husbands (OMG doesn't that sound awful lol husbands plural lol) named my other children. I named Susannah! And I call her Susie.....she's also my darkest skinned child lol....so the closest to my doll lol.....hhhmmm I wonder if that was some kind of subconscious thang on my part......

The Susannah part of Susie's name came from a Soap Opera...yes I AM THAT tacky!!!! There was this posh lady called Susannah on a soap called Brookside that showed in the UK and I thought that Susannah was a classy name :) lol - so I chose that for Susie :) So there you go - I'm as tacky as hell when I want to be :)

A lovely surprise on Tuesday!

On Tuesday I had a lovely (yet naughty) surprise in the mailbox! Jennifer had sent me a copy of the 'Gardeners Bible' - Lois Holes book about growing vegetables! Inside was a lovely letter too :) - On beautiful stationery may I add ;)

Thank you so much Jennifer - I was so touched! Lloyd and I are going to take a drive to Holes garden centre nex week while he is off - we've never been there before! I like that Lois has added little recipes and notes about the vegetables as well as the growing tips :) and the book as me excited about my asparagus beds for NEXT year....even though the asparagus hasn't even popped up yet in the trays....

Everytime this book gets used...year after year, I will think of you :) Thank you!

Lloyds fantasy....

Lloyd fantasizes about this scene in the movie Bruce Almighty...where Bruce is able to make the news presenters say silly things - he can change their voices and make their tongues do silly things.......he dreams about being able to do this in real life to people and about how cool that would really be......he thinks this would be like the best thing EVER to be able to do in meetings at work......

Men are so weird....

Updated

I've updated our homeschooling blog a little....not totally but a little ;)

Plaster of Paris hand print!

Today we used Plaster of Paris to make a print of A's hand in a heart shaped plaque. It was good messy fun! Tomorrow we get to paint the finished plaque and then I will take a picture of the end result!

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Droplets...

I've been playing around with my camera this afternoon...these two are pictures of the condensation thats built up inside the seedling tray from the latest planting session....

Repotting....

Our seedlings have done really well - so well that we had to re-pot our pumpkins as they got so big!

Build a Bear

Last week A went to Build a Bear as a birthday treat. She chose a dog and named her 'I Love You Puppy'. In the store you get to help build your toy, choose a sound to go inside, kiss the heart and fill the toy and then create the adoption certificate etc. When you get home you can create a world for your pet online similar to Webkinz.

Spooky Spice!

A filled a bowl with water and sprinkled pepper on the top! Then she dipped her finger into the centre of the bowl. Alacazam! The pepper moves to the side of the bowl when A puts her finger in.....why???????

A. secretly has a little soap on her finger! The water molecules stick together until the soap breaks the bond. Then the water molecules on the side pull harder, taking the pepper along!

Open House

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Lloyd and Chris have gone into Edmonton tonight to attend an open house at the Victoria School for the Performing Arts.....it's one of the schools Chris is considering for high school next year.

They have a lot of courses such as directing, audio, writing for the stage and screen, animation, video, photography etc etc etc - all of which will help him get into the film school of his choice.

The school is downtown so he could go in with Lloyd each day......pro's and cons....as with every school I guess.....but he's kind of determined about his career so I guess we'll see how the open house goes.

Chris has spent the last few weeks corresponding with a guy in Montreal about a film festival there - he's entering one of his films into a contest....and he's making a film during Spring Break that involves explosives (?????)

He's booked into a Summer Camp for teen movie makers this Summer too....so this high school could be ideal......

So long as he doesn't start wearing leg warmers and singing FAME on my kitchen table all will be well ;)

splish splash.....

Enjoying jumping in the puddles.....

Mud puddles....

Mud glorious mud........Sam enjoying the mud in his moose-covered welly boots. we have had some gorgeous weather lately and the snow has been melting away very fast!

Melting fast...

We can see grass again :)

As happy as a pig in shit........

I love this picture! Charlie caught sleeping in the sunshine yesterday - next to an old can of something or other....and piles of pig shit!!! LOVELY (not!!!) But so funny!!! She's smiling and enjoying the gorgeous weather! The snow is melting fast and she is so happy :) Now the snow is melting we can soon get the yard tidied up :)

Pigs are actually very clean animals and she keeps her bed very clean - all winter long she has left her bed to come outside to this one spot to poop....by the lilac tree (which will be one very health fertilized lilac tree this year lol) It was just obviously the warmest place to sleep yesterday ;)