Finding Fimo

Thanks to Merry we have discovered fimo (pics to follow). Sam has had a ball the last two days making a variety of creations. Yesterday he made a stegi, a pleaisour, miko, r2d2 and cp30. Today he has made marquesa and a cobra. He has had lots of fun and has taken great care to make his creations. We bought the xmas kit so will be doing candy cane and xmas stocking decorations for the tree.

We had a flying visit to merry's yesterday. Sam really enjoyed playing with the girls and Merry and I had a chance to catch up. It was lovely to see them, can't believe it has been so long since our last visit.

Lots of normals this week and sam is really enjoying the next math book. He immediately grasped the concept of greater than and less than and spent yesterday morning snapping like a crocodile. I explained that the symbol faces toward the larger number with the open end, like a crocodile eating the big number. The talk of crocodiles then prompted lots of steve irwin discussion and play and he tried to wrangle his fluffy dragon like steve wrangled crocs. All I can say is thank goodness it wasn't Miko or I! Who knew that math could be so dangerous!

He is beside himself with excitement about tomorrow as he is going to the space center with M and my fil to hear 5 shuttle astronauts give a talk. I think all the boys are excited, sam has been trying all week to think of a good question to ask them. No luck so far so we will have to work on it tomorrow morning. He is going to wear his commemorative Columbia T-Shirt from Dad and ask them to sign it. Am going to send them with the camera so hopefully there will be a few pics to post tomorrow night.