Our 6th Wedding Anniversary

Steven and I are competitive players -- one of our first dates was spent at Fish's Eddy in New York City playing round after round of darts.  Over the years, we've challenged each other to beer pong, pool, video games, archery...  So to celebrate, we booked a day-membership to the Singapore Gun Club.

We learned about 12-gauge shotguns, safety on the range and how the ammunition works.

We learned about the clay targets and how they are launched.

After the briefing, we were given some ear protection and we headed to the range.  

We both lost count of our hits and misses, but each hit about 15 out of 25 targets!  Not bad for a first try -- all those video games must have trained us well.

A Plague of Tiny Frogs

Our apartment building has been overrun by another plague of micro frogs, and all the girls want to do is go outside and catch them!  They've gotten really good -- they pause to spot a stirring in the grass, and they stalk the tiny things and pick them up with their fingers.  Give Lily 10 seconds outdoors, and she'll have one.

Simple Scones

I've made these scones with the kids a few times already, and each time they've been a quick and easy cooking activity that takes about 15 minutes to make, 15 minutes to bake, and usually results in a delightful afternoon tea party.  I happened to have self-raising flour which made the prep much faster, omitting the baking soda and baking powder.  The recipe calls for forming the raw dough into a flat circle and cutting into 8 triangles - I find these to be really big, and prefer baking 10-12 pieces instead.  Serve with clotted cream and jam or honey. 

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It's not the ice-cream, Ruby is actually cartoonishly silly at most times of the day.

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Silliness and pretzels.