Birthday preparations!

Busy, busy, busy today!  This is my list of things to do:

Hang out washing
Bake, ice & decorate the birthday cake
Pack: clothes, birthday things, other stuff
Pick up prescription
Call in at M&S (because H, the lady who does the tasting is there on a Friday!)
Make and eat lunch
Make something with the too many ripe bananas we have
Play Phase 10 (I didn't write that one!)
Make tea for K & M
Cleaning - need to vacuum quite badly in places
Go to Granny & Big Grandad's!

So quite a lot to fit in as you can see.  Fortunately I've had plenty of help today.

M made the birthday cake, with just a little bit of help, while I hung the washing out.

M making her sister's birthday cake

We made the icing between us and both girls very helpfully licked things clean afterwards.

K wanted to decorate the cake herself.

It's an erupting volcano!

We didn't quite manage Feed Yourself Friday today, but M pulled, peeled and chopped the carrots and K washed and cut up the broccoli we had with lasagne for lunch (leftovers from the freezer).  K & M sorted out their clothes ready for packing   I managed to make a loaf of banana bread and we did squeeze in a game of Phase 10 with a break in the middle.  And in addition to all that both girls have broken their own personal skipping records.  After struggling to turn the rope slow enough to do running along skipping M has cracked it and managed 100 skips before stopping and K is gradually getting better and better and has 'moved up the leaderboard' with 66.  Top of the leaderboard is still Martha (from The Secret Garden) with 500 'when she were a lass', M's now next with 100, then K with 66, I managed 55 today and Mary Lennox is on 20.

Finally, I saw what I think is a very funny and rather clever maths joke on Facebook, which I wanted to share with my girls.  We've briefly touched on how to work out the area of a square, when we looked at The Happy Scientist video (sorry it's subscription only, but the little we've looked at so far looks really good!) about water upside down in a glass, and we have previously talked about volume.  So I reminded them about this and with a bit more explaining about not needing a x for multiplication in algebra etc, I told them the joke and showed the picture, which they agreed was funny.  K decided that it would also work for Pippi Longstocking, and I agreed on the assumption that Pippi was in fact a cylinder!