Men, Moustaches and Marching Men

As it was a rainy day, we had a 'list day'. The morning was filled with homework, maths, gingerbread man baking and chocolate moustache making and finishing of the trifle.

Huffle cleared the pantry of all winter coats, hats and gloves and moved them into the front closet (is that a Canadian word?). I know it seems strange for coats etc to be in a pantry but it started life as a coat cupboard and then the food moved in and the coats eventually had to go. Besides, the kids leave by the front door mainly now.

In between waiting for the gingerbread to cool and the moustaches to chill, we played Uno. Smallest won but there was debate over whether you can win by putting down a 'change colour' card. Moustaches were cut and stamped and baked, the boys got bored and played on the Wii while Huffle and I created many more facial appendanges. Huffle also rearranged the front closet/cupboard.

By lunchtime Huffle and I were worn out. We had lunch and watched the end of the film Captain America.

This afternoon we watched the start of Spider-man 3, played table tennis, Jenga............

..........the boys made dominoes rallies with the jenga pieces and we made toffee popcorn for the parade. What a healthy day we have had!! Though we never ate the trifle and only Huffle and I had gingerbread.

Grandma and Grandad skyped and we caught up and then we watched the parade on TV.

Smallest was trying to hug Small and Small was trying to get him off.

It was the 109th parade in Toronto and a lot of the floats were the same as last year but with a few new ones. They had a float with giant bobble-head 1Direction with a Red Telephone Box (how silly). The commentary was awful and we were glad we stayed at home. Some people get there at 7am and it doesn't start until 2pm. Crazy. It is far too early for Christmas (have I already said this?). Also no-one is allowed to say HAPPY CHRISTMAS, they have to say HAPPY HOLIDAYS - NO, it is Happy Christmas, it has always been Christmas so why do we need to change it now????

We slipped in a bit of dinner for the boys (just a bit of soup) and I played Hangman with them. Everytime they guessed a letter, they had to have a spoon of soup. Poor Small was very feeble and went to bed early again. I promised him a day at home if he was still poorly in the morning. I don't feel like I can take him to the docs as I'm sure its just a tummy bug or a virus but we will see how he is.

We attempted to watch ITVPlayer tonight as it is the start of I'm a celebrity get me out of here and It's Huffle's favourite programme, however the ITVPlayer site is down and he is not pleased.

Tonight's forecast says 100% chance of thunder storms. Oh oh!

 

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