Turn off that TV set

Thursday 9th August

After a chocolate and apple pancake breakfast we headed of on a 45 minute bike ride to visit friends. I'm really enjoying the new freedom that having both boys on bikes in bringing as this would normally have been a car journey away. We played in their garden and cooled down in the front room mostly playing with electronic noisy toys! Shared lunch together and journeyed home.

This is what our afternoons predominantly look like especially on hot days, days when we got up early and every other day in between! Lazing around on the sofa, watching iplayer. Sometimes Pumpkin will nap on the sofa too. They enjoy watching cbeebies - Abney and Teal, Everything's Rosie, Postman Pat, Small Potatoes, Charlie and Lola, Timmy Time and I'm sure a few more that I've forgotten. More and more so we are seeing things that they have read or watched appear in their games.

The train track came out today which is the first time in over a week (very unusual)

Pumpkin has had these toys for several days set up on the picnic table and has his own little game which he dips in and out of throughout the day.

Bean requested lots of help today putting together definite ideas that he had. This included tying a tea towel to a pole to make a sail and digging out an old pair of goggles from the back of the cupboard so that he could play motorbikes.