WARNING: there are fake wounds made of Vaseline, flour and red food colouring about halfway through this post.
Broke the habit!
For now.
My head is still all over the place and and trying to get and keep organised is presenting its usual massive challenge, exacerbated by the fact the children have been staggering being exhausted for no apparent reason lately (a possible reason is growth spurts, because they're lethargic and sleep a lot and suddenly they're bigger, especially the boys).
July was pretty cruisy but as everything is pretty much back to normal (I think we're still meant to be social distancing as the marks in checkout lines and the enlarged aisles in bigger stores are still present but seeing as we've never had community transmission ever more and more and more people seem to be forgetting/ignoring this) we've been doing more.
The garden has been doing fantastic and my little nephew keeps asking to come over so he can raid.
I'm not sure what @shadowlioncub was doing on top of the grow beds, I think he was getting some higher up peas that they couldn't reach, that's him working his way down after being told to get down. The pea plants have since cascaded to the ground and are now in the process of dying off.
We had a little family get-together down at our favourite halfway park (apparently the whole thing is called AP Hinds Reserve, we call it the Garrett Rd Bridge Park because we usually come in from that side and go to the picnic area near the bridge).
@pixietrix is still really keen on the video editing and did a bit of that til everyone arrived. Both @shadowlioncub and 3yo cousin were quite determined to get into the water at all costs. They ended up just walking up to @shadowlioncub's knees as they refused to admit that it was actually cold XD After lunch the big boys played footy and @pixietrix was playing with them but eventually came to join Nanna, Aunty, myself and the two small children as she claimed everyone else was hogging the ball. We went a short way up the path that runs along the river reading some of the signs on the way through, looking at the different types of vegetation along the river and keeping an eye out for some turtles that a sign had said to watch out for (we didn't see any).
Over the school holidays (which due to the shortened term felt like they'd arrived in a hurry), both smalls had friends sleeping over (which was a pretty big deal for @shadowlioncub who has adhd and is one marker off an autism diagnosis, he hasn't had a friend sleep over for ages as we have trouble teeing up with his bestie who lives on the other side of the river). The boys spent their sleepover playing outside during the day and watching movies at night. The girls went shopping on one of the days and on the second night attempted to stay up all night. I walked into the kitchen to ask them to quieten down a little and found them playing with knives, apparently they were pranking someone trying to make them believe they'd just stabbed someone so they'd covered a knife with red food colouring. The two friends were then trying to take a photo to make it look like one of them had been stabbed through the hand with the knife, so @pixietrix asked the girl who was pretending to be stabbed if she wanted a fake wound. She responded with an enthusiastic affirmative and the other playfully whined "I want a fake wound!"
Then everyone bar JJ and @shadowlioncub (who were sensibly asleep) got in on the fun.
Pro-tip: take off jumpers and jackets before getting fake wounds.
Pro-tip 2: be careful when rinsing off fake wounds in showers as red food colouring splashes EVERYWHERE and makes the shower look like a murder scene (would have taken a photo but that would have required not cleaning it off immediately and red food colouring stains when dry)
The prank apparently worked so well I got to a point of telling the girls they needed to tell the friends they were pranking that the wounds were fake as some of them sounded like they were getting really worried.
The girls cleaned everything up when they were done, but red food colouring being red food colouring, I got the inevitable "why does my kitchen look like a murder scene?" from JJ the following morning.
@shadowlioncub learned how to use chopsticks by picking up dice with them. When you can pick up dice, banana slices are easy.
He also modified a box vanilla cake recipe as he confused the cake and icing ingredients and put too much liquid into the icing. It wasn't salvagable so with Nanna's help he made some icing using icing sugar and lemon juice, and then decided to top it with strawberries.
@gorc had one of his rare art bouts.
He made two characters for himself (one which was basically completed but he then scrapped because he wasn't happy with how it turned out, the second which he is happy with and just has to write a backstory for so we can start our game) and helping one of his friends with theirs. A lot of poring over sourcebooks, scribbling notes and bouncing ideas off each other has gone into the makings of these characters. And the way the "reality tv show" type household is going I'm thinking I won't have to make antagonists.
Finally, @pixietrix made a birthday cake for the youngest cousin's 4th birthday. She decided to make it from scratch with frosting rather than using the box mixes we have, because apparently frosting is better than icing (I can't tell the difference, I just eat). Due to the size of the batter she made and the size of the cake tins we had, she decided to make a two tier cake. The problem was, the bottom tier didn't rise.
We couldn't simply swap them over as the bottom tier was a lot bigger than the top tier. While waiting for the other tier to finish baking, we tried to figure out what to do and @pixietrix came up with the brilliant idea to cut shapes out of the cake with cookie cutters, lightly place frosting on top and coat them with sprinkles, because everything is better with sprinkles.
The shapes worked out reasonably well except for the giraffe which turned into a demented seahorse as its feet didn't make it out of the cutter, and then the rest of the legs fell off into the sprinkles bowl when it was dipped.
@pixietrix then finished off the cake with some decorative piping around the base.
Unfortunately I can't show photos of just how much 4yo loved it but he loved it. Apparently he grabbed one of the stars around the base and shoved it into his mouth when it was placed in front of him and the candles were about to be lit XD
It was really tasty too, great end to the month.
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Wow! That made me tired just reading about your homeschool adventures. Unfortunately, I can not blame it on being a growing kid.
Thanks for sharing!
It can get pretty tiring as you know XD
I just had a quick skim of your recent posts damn I think you'd be a hell of a lot more tired than me never mind your partner! XD
My daughter and I were at the shops today getting a birthday present for one of her friends and I told her I found my socks at Typo, they had #alwaystired on them XD
It sure can. With six kiddos you can be completely full one minute and wiped out the next. Amazing how they can be the cause both energy and exhaustion.
I never heard of Typo before, but those socks sure do communicate a message I can related to. Thanks for stopping by. See you around.
Oh my the fake wound is epic! 😱
I feel you there. My kids love everything with sprinkles- cakes, donuts, ice cream... 😍
They were pretty great XD I had one done on my arm as well and we were discussing how the brain works as even though the Vaseline and flour "wounds" were clearly fake and we watched them being applied, some of us still "felt" that weird feeling you get if you touch a cut.
I remember loving everything with sprinkles when I was a kid XD Now that I'm an old fart I'm trying to remember why after eating one of the things that had sprinkles on it XD
Sterling work!
That was her second one from memory :) Thanks, I passed on the accolades and she got a bit shy XD
I'm not big on gore and so when i saw that and my stomach turned over, I thought I'd let the creator know, well done!
Wow it's look like real. Maybe It's was amazing day for you @ryivhnn
It did look very convincing from afar, the poor friends were fooled!
That night was a lot of fun :)
Ah, the joys of fake wounds. Izzy went through a stage of trying various different methods of creating them. She'd come and show me and I the first few times I'd think it was real. That was just scratches and bruises, though. When it came to the really gruesome looking ones, the fact that she wasn't crying or in agony gave them away.
LoL! Yeh there was no trying to fool me with them (I got one as well XD). She apparently "knew" how to do it (as much as one can know something from having watched Youtube videos), this was the first time she'd actually done it :)
They used what was left of the Vaseline and all the red food colouring XD
Wow - looks like so much fun at your place!!! Those wounds are rad!!! What a time to remember for them.
We try to make things interesting every now and again ;D
I passed on your comment about the wounds and she said "I like that person, they use my language" XD
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Bahahahahhaaaaa I'd apologise but you shouldn't do that unless you mean it ;D
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I got cookies!
Yay XD
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This was by far one of the most entertaining posts I've read in a while!
This part is hilarious:
Those fake wounds look pretty nasty, indeed. Wish I had known that trick back in the days when I made zombie movies ;<)
This is why Hitchcock made Psycho black and white, back in 1960.
Just kidding, I don't think he used food coloring as blood, it's just that the audience wouldn't have handled the shower scene very well if it had been in color.
I think it was an awesome move and made the film even more legendary and suspenseful.
Big hug,
Vincent
It was hilarious watching it happen XD pixie was all WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LEGS?! and we looked around and then I found the nubby little things in the sprinkles bowl. At that stage we were really struggling not to laugh too loudly as it was pretty late and everyone else had gone to bed or was on the way by the time it was done.
As long as your survivors/zombies didn't have to go into water, you need sterner stuff for that ;D
New things just need to be introduced slowly I guess :)
Hahaha! I'm sure it was even more fun in real life than it looks in my imagination.
That wasn't written in the script, even though I was filming on an island :<)
Great work..
Thanks :)