It's a New Day

Honesty blog post: today i fed the children constantly and cleared up food plates and drinks cups constantly, i tried to play a game with one of them however the other three pulled me in three other directions, i cleaned up a lot of wee and i'm drowning in laundry. That's how the day felt.

However, more than that did happen. Bean, 9, got out a box of magnetic shapes which comes with a strong magnetic base so you can build magnetic structures. Him, Plum, 5, and Pippin, 2, took in turns to build. He also got out the cogs and wheels and the electronic set. He built circuits and then invited Pippin to connect the switch and made lights come on or buzzers sound or the motor twirl. This was topped and tailed with watching The Loud House.

We got the grey paint out and all of us painted rectangle peices of card in preparation for decorations for Pumpkin's, 7, birthday party. Bean and Pumpkin went and found their outfits and Pumpkin discovered that his helmet is now too small and was upset. We will buy him a new one for his birthday party.

Plum and Pippin played babies, Plum pushing Pippin in the dolly buggy again and using our wardrobe as their home. Watching lots of Bing whilst hanging on to toy Bing, Zula and Coco.

I began building a mansion with Bean on minecraft PE. I couldn't get minecraft to load on my tablet so i read the instructions whilst Bean built. It was xomplicated and even after half an hour we had barely figured it out. We wil try again tomorrow.

Plum and me moved a few more items in her room and she talked 3xcitedly about her bed being in the room. She asked again if today was her gymnastics day. We had plans to skype a friend but we couldn't get the timing right and Plum was really disappointed however this friend is coming to play and sleep next week so we have something to look forward to.

One of the reasons i like to blog is to put the day into perspective. It might feel like i spent the day torn between a million things and not much happening but when i pause and reflect and write it down our day was full of intention and moments of involvement and play, even if i am still drowning in laundry.