Muffin Tin Meal

It's Monday! That means time to share our muffin tin meal. This week's theme was shapes. We decided to go all round. Circles that is!

We've got Cheerios, cheese, peanut butter sandwich and apple slices.

Say What?

I'm curious. Where's Kim? Why has she not had a Say What? moment? Have I suddenly gotten the child that makes me say things I never thought I would?

Ethan's reading some books right now. He's so cute the way he's trying to read now. And since he's busy reading, I head off to the kitchen, to pretend I can be of some use to Scott who's making dinner.

I come back into the room, to find Ethan has placed his book down, and has his toes in his mouth! "Ethan!!!! Stop sucking on your toes!!!!!" 

Seriously!!!! Did I just tell my child to stop sucking on his toes? And best yet, , he tells me he does it because he likes it! Eeww!!!

Malaika Kids

A part of the curriculum at IST, is to encourage students to take part in community service. It seemed only fair, that if we ask the children to give back to the community, we, as teachers do the same. As our library and grades order new books, the old ones are left homeless. So today, a few teachers went to visit Malaika Kids to donate boxes of books.

Malaika Kids is an orphanage. At the moment, their little village has about 30 children. They've put a lot of thought into the design of the place. The rooms are set up to allow cross ventilation, and therefore eliminates the need for fans or ACs. Each mini-house holds a "mother" who sleeps in the common room. On each side is the dorm. One side for the girls, and the other for the boys. Each dorm sleeps 5 children. There is also a self contained play area for the younger children.

Their drainage system is green. Rain collects in the gutters, and then is directed into a water tank. This can then be used to help water their shamba, garden, where they have tomatoes, spinach, cucumbers and other vegetables growing.

It was a lovely visit there. The children were thrilled to see us. They sang us a welcome song, and came over to chat. There was one darling little girl, Amina, who is 3 years old. She's very small for a 3 year old. Upon looking at the Malaika Kids website, I learnt Amina and I are kindred spirits. We share the same birthday!

The boys dorm.

The shamba

Amina

You Capture - Photographer's Choice

This week, for You Capture,  we got to choose to feature anything we wanted. Of course, I chose my favourite topic, Ethan! I also went over to Picnik and played around.

And giving it a 1960s look....

The Happiness Project

My mate, Betti, is expecting twins next month. She looks gorgeous. We were enjoying a lovely breakfast, when her daughter brought over a couple of little dolls. Betti seems to think the babies are the same size as the dolls, but we corrected her. She wanted to get an idea of how the babies currently look and are placed. 

This moment of beauty and happiness has been brought to you by LeighvsLaundry.

Muffin Tin Meal

This week's theme was the movies. I had ideas floating around in my mind. However, I didn't have any cool Toy Story or Cars muffin tins, and didn't think Scott would approve of a sudden Golda's order.

We've had a wonderful 4-day weekend here. Scott seemed to have missed that memo as he had to work most days. We also forgot to pay the cable bill. hehehe. Ethan and I decided to have a movie afternoon. We popped in a DVD, and relaxed. Of course, no movie would be complete without a snack. And in this case, a muffin tin snack!

We have some apple juice, popcorn, teddy bear cookies, strawberries, star-shaped cinnamon raisin bread with cream cheese, and grapes.

You Capture - Signs

This week's assignment was "signs". Got to love this one! Only in Tanzania do you need a sign to warn you about the crows. Not like it's obvious they're around, everywhere!