Improv Queen

Maia was singing us her "Cauliflower Fluffy" song this evening at dinner.

She got through the first verse ok

"Cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green,
strawberries sweeter than any I've seen,
beetroot red and onion white,
all grow steadily day and night
the apples are ripe the plums are red
the broad beans are sleeping in their blanketty beds!"

we all duly applauded. She beamed and said "there's more!"

And then froze. She had clearly forgotten the rest of the song.

So, she looked up at us, looking at her.

Then she looked down at her plate and said

"There's no bacon in that song, is there?"

To which we had to reply that no, there wasn't.

Maiasaurus Suit

Noonah is making a dinosaur suit for Maia from some lovely fluffy green Dinosaur patterned material I got last week. The suit (which is an amazing creation - nay, work of art) has spikes, a tail, room for arms (at the side, or at the front "like a Tyrannasaurus Rex!") and a bright red belly.

The fluffiness of this particular dinosaur material makes for an interesting time for the seamstress. She has had to stop once already to dislodge a hairball.

Early Signs of Vegetarianism?

According to Miss Maia, she now knows ALL about dinosaurs, having been learning about them this week at school.

She knows how the dinosaurs began... in fact, she started to tell me all about it.

She began with the immortal words "In the beginning..." and I had a minor panic that she was going to follow up with "there was the word..." and we were going to have to have The God Talk. But she followed up with "there was a big ball of gas."

Thank Darwin for that...

Anyway, The History Of The Earth According to Maia:

"In the beginning there was a big ball of gas. Then there was lava. Then there were little bugs. Then there were fish. Then they went to the land. Then there was dinosaurs and they ate things. Then a Meat Eater killed them (but not the sharks) then people came. Then I was born!"

Which sounds about right to me.

S'no Motivation Like Snow

Maia Pie was reluctant to get out of bed this morning. I went in at five past eight (when we need to leave the house at twenty to nine) and tried to rouse her. She was not co-operative.

That is, until I told her that it was snowing outside...

Her eyes popped open and she bounded out of bed squealing. We opened the curtains and saw it was all nice and white and STILL SNOWING!

Breakfast was porridge (to have lots of energy for playing in the snow) and she and Noonah got dressed in record time.

On the way to school she caught snowflakes on her tongue, and marvelled at the scrunching sound under her New Waterproof-and-Snowproof Boots.

I am going to make her some fairy cakes dusted with icing sugar snow for a home time treat. All in all, we think snow is pretty cool.