Alex's second grade Thanksgiving concert

This evening Alex performed in the second grade concert, he had the opening speech. Alex had spent a couple of weeks learning the lines and was ready- although they gave him the speech on a piece of paper in case he needed it, so Alex just read the paper!!! It shows some sense, why remember when they are going to give you the words!! I knew he knew it, and was very proud. My first attempt at putting some video on the blog, so lets hope it works. Having sat here for ages, I think this is a large file!! Allan says 191MB is big, so not sure how it will work on the blog. [Indeed the upload failed, no reason was given. Will try again later - Allan]

Bens pumpkin pie class activity

Ben made pumpkins pie yesterday, November 19th 2008, in his class. each table had to make the pie from scratch( well tinned pumpkin is hardly scratch!!!), the pastry case and then make up the mixture for the centre of the pumpkin pie. He enjoyed making the pie, the school canteen cooked them( and actually burnt them all!!!) and today for snack time they ate them. Some children had 4 or 5 slices. Ben had the obligatory' must try it two mouth fulls' and just went on to the whipped cream. The other mums ate it, but I was with Ben. I am going to make my own - from scratch. the pumpkins are sitting on the side in our kitchen, and then we will see what the family as a whole think of Pumpkin Pie. One of the mum's said to me, "I love pumpkin Pie, but only eat it at Thanksgiving", it must be a tradition like our Christmas pudding, which I love but only eat at Christmas.