Our first snow fall!

We actually got snow here in Brighton a few days ago. Not nice and thick like so many people have had it, but it settled this time - all the half an inch of it! It was enough for our children to be so excited in the morning that they rushed through getting ready in the morning probably for the first time since we got here! No complaints over getting dressed that day. I had to go out that morning, but enjoyed watching them for a little while from my warm bedroom while I got ready to go. They had such fun, and tried everything to get every bit of snow possible from any surface they could find. As a result, three days later, when everybody else's snow has long since melted away, we still have a load of it in our back garden - in the shape of a goblin would you believe!

They started off with the intention of building a snow foal lying down, but came to the conclusion in the end that it was too hard, so went for a snow goblin instead! The library here seems to have all of the Rainbow Fairies books, so they are making their way through them in order (Jack Frost and his goblins take part in every book). They are easy reads, so it won't take very long to have read the whole lot, but we have fairy thoughts on the go much of the time right now because of it! They found the website for it and have been creating their own fairies and printing them off to cut out and play with. Rachel chose to paint some of them this afternoon when she and Hannah decided to do some watercolour painting. Watercolour and fairies seem to go pretty well together and she was extremely happy with the result.

Enjoy the goblin!