cooking with the kids

Ok I am not one of those mums who loves cooking with the kids! I am ashamed to admit it, but the mess and the length of time everything takes to do drives me nuts!  But I am learning slowly (thanks Junior Masterchef) that the girls especially need to learn how to cook.  After all if a 9 year old can whip up a confit of duck surely my girls can make cupcakes..  So today I let them loose in the kitchen and they made delicious lamington cupcakes.  I resisted the urge to hurry them or get involved apart from helping them read the instructions. 

The result was beautifully light and moist cupcakes..



My son clearly loved them..

All in all a successful cooking experience, eat your heart out Junior masterchef!!

Possible Halloween ideas!

With Halloween fast approaching I thought I would put up the pics of the homemade costumes I made my girls for Book week.  They were very cheap costing me next to nothing and a big hit with the kids.  First my daughters astronaut costume, was a pair of painters paper overalls from bunnings (hardware store), the jet pack was 2 painted coca cola 2 l bottles, with paper badges from google images on them.  The helmet was bought at spotlight for $12, and the badges on her arms were from google images and printed off at home.

My other daughters costume was free, I took an old black shirt and cut out the feather shape template and then sewed them on in lines and then searched google images for owl mask and came up with the one i used.  The idea I got from pinterest cannot remember which site it was from but was easy and she got lots of comments on it.  Hope this has helped some looking for cheap and easy halloween costumes!

Little Fingers everywhere!

My little man has decided he is a big boy now! he opens the fridge to get his own drinks out, and then puts the drink bottle up to the fridge water dispenser and lets the water flow!! oh it flows all over him, and the kitchen floor.  Its hard to tell him off though because he is so cute.  Here he is inspecting the freezer.. 

Its hard  to believe he has grown up so fast, he knows what he wants when he wants and how much he wants..  but when he gives you this look my heart just melts xoxo