Sticky tape handcuffs

Moments from today: Leila is enjoying scissors, paper and sticky tape, but today she somehow wrapped the tape around her hands, and ended up "cuffed". I had to peel her hands free.

Hannah is unhappy about getting dressed in what I want her to wear, when I want her to wear it. Its often similarly difficult to clean her teeth (I usually end up having to pin her down in the Lounge room with my knees on either side of her head).

One memorable moment from today was when Hannah brought out a pretty dress-up dress, and asked me (baby talk and gestures) to put it on her. She then directed me to start some music up on the piano (we have an electronic one) and danced beautiful toddler dances all around the lounge room.

She did some painting today with Leila (Beth was at school) and we cooked banana bread. We picked Beth up from school and then went to Sister Jan Beadle's house with some banana bread and some quilting gear. We visited with Jan, and I helped her choose her fabrics for a quilt square (for a relief Society project). Then we went to Dancing.

We were short on time, so I told Beth and Leila that if they got changed in less than 4 minutes they could have a dollar to buy a fizzy drink at the desk. Miracle!!! Could this be the same Beth that took forever this morning and was late for school?

Tonight Damien and I watched the end of Dr Who season 2 (David Tennant and Billie Piper). So sad!!!

Easter

Aren't these girls cute?
Hannah doesn't like the flash, and is a quick learner. She started covering her eyes and then decided to run out of the room whenever I pointed the camera at her!

I tried to keep the quantity of chocolate down this year. This was a good excuse to maximise the quality of course: I made the mistake of buying cheap eggs earlier in the week (they tasted like chocolate flavoured crayons) .

The girls made little baskets and put signs up around the house saying "Easter Bunny leave eggs here".

We were also spoiled by a number of lovely friends and relatives. It is a bit scary. I'm hoping the un-easter bunny will hide them all from me...

Family Home Evenings need a warning label.

Long time no post, but I thought I'd just share some of tonight's capers. We had a family home evening, with the usual arguments over who gets to be the music person.

Bethany (6) sat on on an overturned cardboard box "house" we have in the loungeroom, and got her bottom stuck in the cardboard doorway. She kind of folded in half and wedged fast. All we could see was a head, shoulders&arms, and knees&feet sticking out. Damien had to extract her.
Later on, Damien was in "relaxed" mode all over the couch and Bethany decided to sit on him (all this was during the lesson of course). We were singing "love one another". Beth bounced in time with the lyrics. We just kept on singing, while Leila (4 1/2) and then even little Hannah (18 months) climbed up and joined in the bounce-on-Daddy squash. Every time they bounced, they forced air out of Damien in time with the music. It was pretty funny.