bright day

“ Look closely. The beautiful may be small” ~ Immanuel Kant

Over on luckysnapping, its lynnes week and she has given us the above quotation.
While I was sat on the floor playing with Harry the sun was shining for a change and making shadows on the carpet...

Here he is!




There is nothing more beautiful then a small persons hand in your hand :)


He enjoys looking at books, this is Whose Tail?, he loves the lion roaring at the end.

Valentines

over on luckysnapping everyone is discussing affairs of the heart. I will share with you the valentines card I did for Richard


I am having a moody few days so wont chat about affairs of the heart as what I write would be tainted by my mood...I may be back in a few days if the mood brightens :)

I did some more knitting..


Harry in his new toddler t shirt.

achievement...

maybe not quite an impressive impossible but a few years ago I couldn't knit. My mum showed me the basics because Daniel wanted to knit a scarf....Daniel never finished the scarf but I carried on having a go. Youtube has been a godsend, I struggle to understand written directions but being able to see I can understand so much easier. So it started with Daniels scarf in March 2010, in the following months I did a little bag for Evie, some washcloths, another scarf, a tank top and then socks....I have just finished this for myself...


It was done in the round which is good because I dont like sewing, so it didnt have to be passed to my mum to sew...maybe thats the next achievement to start to sew them up myself, lol.

Its the half term holidays here, not that we are upto much, Harry went to the hospital on monday due to our eyesight being a family thing...Daniel played with a friend so it was just the four of us, Richard took the day off work- it was an early appointment at 8.40 and its an hr away so a lovely early start....Harry is slightly long sighted and has astigmatism- we all seem to have the later and the kids are all long sighted but richard and i are both short sighted- trust us to be different to the usual. Harry will get a sight check at a nearer hospital in 2 mths...the dr did ask how old he was (18 mths i said) to which he replied could he tell him the letters- errmmm NO he can hardly speak! So I was presented with pictures to 'train' him to recognise, do drs actually understand kids- could this be impossible???
Anyway we then went on to the deep which was great fun seeing all the fish, then we went to macdonalds. Evie got a sticker for being good and Harry loved having stickers.

Can you see how big his pupils are? - they used drops to dilate them.

Tuesday brought us shrove Tuesday or pancake day

Evie dressed for the occasion....she likes tomato and cheese with everything so thats what it has to be with pancakes. Daniel, lemon and sugar, golden syrup and orange juice or lemon, myself golden syrup and orange juice...Richard and Harry werent bothered by them....so what do you like on your pancakes.
We have snow falling at the moment but think it will be gone by the rain over night.

The view

I actually took the view picture on Wednesday but didnt get round to uploading it. It was a wet cold day.

Dark and miserable!

I saw the additional prompt of the kitchen window view and looking left out of the kitchen window this morning at breakfast time, it was a lovely sky.

I have cropped this second photo- shame I cant get rid of everyones washing lines though, lol.


The clouds looked like mountains.

Rainbow colours continued....

so I still needed the rest of the rainbow colours to finish this weeks challenge on stillsnapping2013...
Red, orange, yellow were in my previous post, so the next one is green.


there are some green sugar strands...honestly, lol. I made these this afternoon as well as some scones and some broccoli soup for dinner, this was done while Harry slept, then after dinner I iced the buns.

Blue


Daniel at a hockey tournament this morning- 5 matches, won 3, drew 1 and lost 1...so pretty good really. This is the first proper match for him as the other two have been cancelled due to bad weather. Its an hour and a half drive away, they left just gone 8am and got home at 3pm...Evie, Harry and I stayed home, he has two more matches which he is able to play as luckily they dont clash with his football, so the last one in March should be nicer even possibly warmer weather, so we will all go along to that one :)

Indigo

I thought Evies butterfly hairclip and new glasses could work for indigo.

Violet



another knitting project, a sleeveless jumper for me.

I will finish with these two photos taken yesterday- the boys having a cuddle


and Harry pinching Daniels glasses!!