All is not lost

A quiet morning, all the smalls were busy doing their own thing. Bean, 9, and Pumpkin, 8, taking it in turns to play roblox. Plum, 5, lying under the duvet on my bed watching Youtube and asking if we can make giant gummy bears. Pippin, 2, playing Peppa Pig toys.

In the afternoon we went out to Explore and Play. There were four families there today. Bean made a coaster covered with twigs for grandma and pops. Pumpkin covered a coaster with a single measured sheet of tissue paper and then drew a emoji face on it. Plum made a coaster look like a rabbit using two lolly sticks for ears and a twig standing on end for it's nose. Bean and Pumpkin also played a game of monopoly together. Plum and Pippin painted pictures and make pizza and ice cream with the playdough. Plum's friend V arrived and they made a playdough village together and painted and did duplo.

Coming home was difficult. I upset Bean as i hadn't heard him ask if he could lock the door of the church venue. Plum was topless and it was freezing so i took her to the car and left Bean to do the door again but he was upset that he hadn't done it in the first place. Plum was then upset because Bean was supposed to be thinking about whether or not to play a game with her when they got home but now he was crying, and so was she. Pippin was crying because she was tired.  Bean disappeared to his room when we got home, Plum sat on the stairs, i cuddled Pippin on the sofa. We found Peppa Pig on dvd and ahe calmed after a while. I went and saw Plum and tucked her back under the duvet on our bed with food and a drink. I took drinks to Bean and Pumpkin. Pumpkin came downstairs and played his minecraft card game with me. After the children had eaten dinner Bean and I had a cuddle.

In the evening Pumpkin made a slide upstairs by turning a chair side down and then they made a second one by placing pool noodles on top of a pile of bedding and bean bags on the double bed.

When it came to tidying up it appeared that Bean had lost both his bean bag and his watch. His bean bag was fairly easy to locate as it is big, it was in our wardrobe. We will have to look for his watch in the morning when we have light and there aren't others sleeping. He's a bit upset about his watch but the good news is that it is in the house somewhere.