Did you miss us? I haven’t posted in over a week. And I haven’t drawn much either. It felt very weird not to have a daily drawing. I feel out of practice. And when I sat down to draw this, it felt strange. It was nice to take a break but now the drawing habit is broken and I don’t know how to get it going again. I don’t know if I will. But anyhoo…what we’ve been up to…

Alan was on vacation last week for his birthday. What did we do? We made plans and didn’t follow through! We’re good at that. We wanted to go to the zoo, to a farm, and do other kiddie activities. But we didn’t make it to the zoo or to a farm. We did manage to go to Australia night at the library.

Australia night at the library. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? It was stories from down under. Ok. Not really that exciting. My active imagination just blew it up to all kinds of crazy proportions when in reality it was just a woman reading books. No boomerangs or didgeridoos or bushmen with Australian accents. Just stories and make your own toilet roll koala.

Isabelle was NOT interested. We couldn’t get her to sit and listen. Even if they had didgeridoos and boomerangs or bushmen, she wouldn’t have cared. She was much more fascinated with the scissors on the tables. Who wants to listen to stories or even color more than a little scribble when they can cut with scissors?? Real scissors that mama doesn’t usually let her touch. So who mostly made this koala bear (or penda beer as Isabelle calls it)? Me. Isn’t it bea-u-ti-ful?

What else did we manage to do? Go to the park. We like the park. Where besides the beach do we get to throw sand everywhere and water…well sand?

And oooh what else? Dinosaur cake. Made by me. Or dinosaur cupcakes…whatever they’re called.

I’ve made two dinosaur cakes since I’ve last posted. Where are the pictures of the cake? Didn’t you just read me write, I suck at decorating cake? The pictures are tooooo sad. You do not want to see them.

I made the first cake in a rush with a recipe I’d never tried before. My brain wasn’t working and I couldn’t figure out how to put the dinosaur together correctly. And for some reason I didn’t think logically and turn the mold over to compare. I kept flipping the cake pieces over back and forth trying to work it out. DUH! I failed miserably. All that trouble and they didn’t taste that great. Well of course Isabelle didn’t care that it was ugly and that the cake wasn’t great. She was just happy that it was cake with FROSTING and that there were candles.

But I had to have something yummy so tried making it again but with a recipe I knew. But wouldn’t you know it? I forgot to spray the mold and the cupcakes stuck. I mangled them all popping them out. At least I managed to put it together correctly. But they didn’t taste as good as the last time I used the recipe. I wonder if the dinosaur mold is the reason.

And the other big thing we did? We bought a new car. We are now a two car family again after five months with only one car. And where’s the picture of that? I can’t get it together to take a picture. I keep remembering after Alan’s driven it off. I mean it’s taken me three days to write this post and it’s already too long, so another day.