long long time ago

Okay, so it's been a while since I posted but daddy has been working super hard on a project at work and working long hours and optimum conditions for a post often require the smalls to be with him. I'm going to round up our activities and write a little bit about each of the smalls.

We have been on walks in Slindon woods and Swanbourne lack, play dates at the park, local home ed group and friend's houses and our house, fimo and felting and sewing and knitting and painting and pumpkin carving, lego and angry birds and reading and film nights and minecraft, giraffe hunting and den making, visiting family and baking and guinea pig cuddles and gymnastics and boys brgade and french lessons. And probably a few things that i have forgotten!

Bean is continuing to want to learn to read, although actual progress is slow his enthusiasm is rocketting. We spent one and a half hours reading just the other day and the library is a big(ger) hit than ever. We are currently enjoying reading Paddington to him and loving it. He tried out "real writing" the other day in the park. His real passions currently are star wars, lego, minecraft and dragons. Daddy purchased 'how to train your dragon' and we have watched it twice in the last four days. We are working through some of his current aggressive outbursts and there are hugs in abundance.

Pumpkin has reignited his baking urges and we have baked chocolate butterfly cakes and minecraft cakes and biscuits and he has been keen to try decorating them like they do on The Great British Bake Off, so we bought a piping bag and gave it a go. He too is submerging himself in lego and star wars and minecraft but has become more of a home boy as the days get shorter and after much pondering as to why theis might be have decided that trusting him in this is really as much as i need to do at the moment.

Plum is busy trying out new words and riding on her scuttle bug and climbing (more) She is keen to help out and things upset her if they are out of place. She dances at the first sound of music and sings when she can.

And that is all I have time to scrawl.

Sweety games for Halloween. Avoiding the hideousness of scary elements, Pumpkin managed to articulate that it was the sweeties that he was interested in so an evening of apple bobbing, pinata, sweety hunt and floured sweets ensued!

Our first family firework trip. Ear defenders worked so well that Bean cried when it finished because he loved it so much!

Bean's "real writing"

Pumpkin's sewn campsite with rushing river, camp fire and golf course.