All Sorts

All sorts of stuff has been going on but none of them eventful enough to warrant an entire post so I thought I'd bung them all together to make this one.

On Friday night Beth (with a little help from daddy) made dinner for us all. Chicken quesadillas from the Annabel Karmel cookbook she got Steve for his birthday. They were pretty good and we enjoyed them even though neither of the kids were overly keen and only picked. I think we'll have to try them again but limit the filling to cheese and ham!

After dinner Steve took them both outside to have a play with the new soakers we got from Costco.** Beth got the hang of them pretty quickly and was more than happy causing havoc watering the windows and Steve; she wasn't so happy being got (must take after her mum), I stayed inside clearing up and watched from a distance.

**The "can't get out of Costco without parting with $100" has made it over here too (but in £s) and Steve sits and wonders how on earth we can spend that much on the 'essentials' . . . ;)

We seem to have had a bit of time to spend with Toby on his own

recently - Beth stayed with grandma and grandpa at the weekend. On Sunday morning

we went to Clumber Park to attempt to fly a kite since

his favourite song (that he sings ALL the time) is "Lets Go Fly a Kite" from Mary Poppins. It was semi successful as the wind was not very steady but Toby enjoyed it.

Toby is also very much into bubble blowing and takes a bottle of bubbles (empty and closed) to bed with him. He must have spent an hour chasing them around the garden last week; I'll have to go out and buy a couple of gallons to keep us in stock!