So today we tried a second at home day this week with nothing especially planned although I had a few ideas in mind of things the boys have been interested in. The morning started with me cleaning out an old shower gel bottle and Bean jumped at the chance to make a potion (recently read George's Marvolous Medicine) It was a progressive move towards Pumpkin taking over the bathroom floor with a pile of lotions and old half used bottles of stuff from the cupboard. The boys had a great time. Bean enjoyed making his froth and bubble and kept adding a bit of this and a bit of that to make it more bubbly. Pumpkin just enjoyed using what he could and mixing it altogether. We used utensils from the kitchen set and then got the jam funnel out to decant into the bottle.
Daddy phoned and needed the laptop delivered to the other side of town so we all got dressed (nothing like the motivation of seeing daddy to get us dressed!) and drove to meet him. We coupled this with some deliveries where Bean did some lovely map reading and number spotting as we went to find houses.
The potion making continued when we got home plus some colouring and reading books.after lunch we had a shouts moment and whatever I tried there seemed to be no way of breaking the cycle, Bean especially was finding it difficult to exit the angry stress mode so we jumped ship completely and took ourselves out on bikes to the local park. Worked wonderfully.
Plum had a feed and a sleep when we got home and the boys put on some I player whilst I was settling her. The I player stayed on until dinner time.
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