Pirate mad!

The world has gone pirate mad- this involves being dressed as a pirate by 6am (or alternately as a RAF Fl Lt) and spending the day thus- usually involves poking each other with foam swords and lots of ohhhhahhhhhs! And watching the Swiss Family Robinson (although she realised that made her a 'baddie' and she didn't like that!). Of course the little goosepimp arms and blue feet make mummy suggest that the pirate might like to slip some socks and a cardigan on- (at least a vest!!) but pirates don't take mummy advice........
Pirate number three currently has a delightful thick lip from a midnight wander- goodness knows how or what- all we know is he came in crying and next moring had a huge thick lip....that was easy to explain to Playgroup!
Otherwise we have been baking and making- scratch art windmills. We have done a little mini project on the Water Cycle- looking at Evaporation and Condensation- with some Kitchen Science experiments to explain.
Today SJ starts some individual swimming lessons (ouch small fortune)- he has been struggling to click with the idea of co-ordinating his breathing with front crawl arms- so the teacher recommended some one-to-one......hmm we'll see how this goes