Did you know it's National Baking Week?

Well it is - National Baking Week that is!  So far this week I/we have made:

Sunday: Victoria sponge with cream and jam in the middle (although that was the day before the week officially started, as it was for K's birthday tea)
Monday: Banana and chocolate chip muffins
Tuesday: Bread rolls (a bit cheat-y as I made the dough in the breadmaker), scones and sourdough bread

Not sure what we're going to go for tomorrow.  K & M are very keen on making gingerbread constructions having seen the amazing efforts on The Great British Bake Off.  M wants to make a double decker bus!  I don't know if we'll try that tomorrow though.

After our bi-annual trip to our very nice dentist this morning, we had friends arrive late morning for lunch and a play.  While we were waiting for them to arrive M had a go on the computer and K a go working on a glitter dome kit that she'd been given for her birthday. 

Glitter dome with a model of Snowy, K's new polar bear birthday present

Good isn't it!

Flowers, which she gave to G & F as a present when they left!

K & I introduced C (the mummy) to Phase 10, while M went off with G (8) and F (4.5) to play Swallows and Amazons upstairs.  There was some playing in the garden and then a collaborative effort between all 6 of us resulted in some very good scones with whipped cream and Nana's strawberry jam. 

K has also written another thank you (to me and A this time) and M has started writing a story about Uncle M's trip to the moon, which is very smelly because it's made of stilton, where he ate some cheese, turned into a cow and jumped over the moon.  She's asked for a few words, but is doing pretty with spelling and often knows that something is a 'tricky' word even if she's not sure how to spell it, for example she asked how to spell 'doubt' because of that.  The only two common words that she got consistently wrong were 'they'  (theay) and 'said' (sied - only used it once this time though), so I've suggested she learn those two as they crop up frequently and I've written them in an exercise book for her.  I'm guessing just bringing them to her attention will probably be enough to fix them in her memory, but we'll see how it goes and I'll try asking her tomorrow if she can remember how they're spelled and suggest some ways of learning practising if necessary.