Soap # Six

 Just noticed that the lost and neglected child's soap pics vanished in the shuffle, and nobody got to see his masterpiece!

 Daniel tried various types of cuts, then he had a gun!  He had a smaller piece of feta cheese too, like Jennifer.  He had a great time chopping the soap into smaller and smaller pieces and wiping the crumbs on the floor.

Daniel's racecar

 Sometimes Daniel spends an hour or more playing with lego, hunting for pieces, building, taking apart, and finalizing his final product.

This one had details like a spare tire-because race cars always have them on the back. ;)

Extra soap bars

Matthew carved out a boat.  He was the first to start and the last to finish.

 Jennifer made chopped feta cheese after trying some bigger items that didn't work.

 Evelyn just loved having a knife!  She let me make a bowl for her, then she adapted it into a hat and wore it.

 After some thought Melanie decided her soap was in the shape of a vehicle, and it turned into a truck.  She waited to see what everyone else decided to make before she started.

 Nathan spent a long time deciding what to make too, for he didn't want to waste the soap more than it was being wasted already. ;)  Then he made a car.

A three panel windstorm

We built a "portable" fence around the pool-we still don't know if it will be a useable pool, or if it is toast-so we didn't want to invest too much in it, but still make a barrier between it and the little ones.

As you can see we have had a bit of trouble with it when it is windy.  We've strengthened these ones-but since then haven't had such strong wind, so we don't know for sure if it's good enough. ;)

And just when we got it this far our insurance company called and said "You need to have a fence around the pool according to bi-laws, you need your roof done, you need... (x4) done ...in 90 days.  We're sending a letter with the specs."  We were pretty upset for various reasons...but when the letter arrived, it turns out they were only "recommendations" with no follow up and no 90 day timeline.  Phew!  Meantime, the bi-laws we didn't think were relevant here appeared to be dug in the ground fence, a few inches taller, of different material etc.  As far as we can tell, these are more recent laws, and in the past 5 years or so irrelevant to country homes.  Sigh.

Get to work

 Rise and shine all of you, older to younger, and get to work!

(Evelyn doesn't have any vacuuming chores, but if we leave the vac unattended she pounces on it so she can do her share. ;)

Projects

Matthew has been very crafty lately, this tent (complete with sleeping bags) was one of the first...and he has made two purses, cards, and countless other things.  Almost all of them are following instructions from "the jumbo books of crafts" a purchase from Value Village's bookshelf.

Nathan made a rig, and the logs are being loaded.  He made a loader later too, not sure if it worked with pencil crayons or not.

Beautiful spring day

Evelyn's birthday!

 "ber-day" "cake!" "mine!"

Evelyn had Peter over, and for a two and almost 2 year old, they played together for a bit
even, and pretty well at that.  Aside from having him over for a morning visit, and a cake (with the obligatory birthday song) that was the extent of the party.  She was happy with that!

 She found the song embarrassing even though she'd been practicing for months. ;) 

 But eating the cake was no trouble. ;)

Evelyn is spoiled by having five older siblings to make and give stuff to her.  But five to defend her gifts from too: "No, no mine! no touch my present!" was said at least once!

Waiting for present time in the evening was pretty manageable since she could understand the routine.  Lots of curious people hovered when the time came, to see if their suspicions are confirmed or not.  Nathan made a finger knitting snake (and had to put the head back on after it was unwrapper. ;).

Evelyn decided to go fishing with her double pompom Melanie made.