Midnight Hours

According to my kitchen clock it is 0:38am.  I'm sitting here, giving it another ten minutes before I get comfy in bed again.  Just to make sure that baby girl is really and truly asleep.  We've got visitors staying with us, and while I'm not usually the CIO type anyways - because then we get the rest of the kidlets waking - so it's walk and rock and cuddle and snuggles.  I admit, I did (am?) grumble and growl abit ... but the more I think about it - she wants her Mama - and for the most part I'm ok with that .... right .... that was six minutes .... off to rock and cuddle some more - might be time for a different strategy and pop her into bed with me?  What do you do in these situations if you have a wee one .... if you don't have wee ones - what's your best fall back asleep technique for yourself in the middle of the night because now I'm wide awake :-)  Wonder if I should tackle the ironing?  That's a noiseless chore ....

Finger paints

This is what we got up to yesterday while it was hot and breezy.  I found a recipe online, consisting of cornflour, water, sugar, salt.  Most of them were really similar - but after talking to a friend today, she said to add some washing liquid once it was cooked and cooled, but before you added the coloring.  This apparently helps the color from sticking to fingers.

I'm not usually that excited about painting, but this is pretty painless to clean up.  The blog site I got the recipe from had them stored in baby food jars.  I just used cups leftover from DH's 30th party, safer for breakages and we used all the paint, so tossed the cups afterwards.  It made just enough for a good afternoon of pictures (about 2 cups).  Next time I think I'll try proper paintbrushes for all the kids ... might eliminate some more of the body painting.