The Roundabout

Halloween is near...

Keiron Learns to ride a bike!

Training wheels came off and he was away. Now everyday starts with "when can I ride my bike today"!

Easter baking, well sort of...

Keiron and daddy "cooked" without mummy supervision. Back to watching a movie. Our detailed recipe as follows:

Boil a pot of water
Break up 3 bars of Green & Black's milk chocolate into a shallow metal bowl
Place bowl over boiling water (a proper double boiler will also work!)
While the chocolate is melting, open a box of Rice Crispies, open a package of Cadbury eggs, set out the bun frames
Stir chocolate
Stir in about 1.5 large cereal bowls of the Rice Crispies into the chocolate soup
Once mixed;
Spoon into bun frames and plop two eggs on top of each.
When complete, lick spoons and eat a few stray eggs!

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Life and Money

Played Monopoly with Keiron for the first time and it was a blast. I was the social entreprenuer buying less celubrius properties to extract income from Keiron "Park Place" Hannula. This time equality won out and the barons went bust! If only real life metered out some portion of this justice.

But, given 5 years running my own biz makes monopoly scary, unsettling as it is such a close match for the real thing, with one major exception: chance. This makes it feel more unsettling than real life because you are not in some kind of control.
However, you can't beat it for learning and family fun!

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Friday Nite Movie Nite!

Keiron had his mates over for dinner and a movie. But given the nice weather, it was the park, a picnic, a bath, and then a movie. It was Thomas and Max who livened up the hannula's house.