Hectic

Gymnastics day and bean, 10, asked if we could go to Tilgate Park afterwards, so we did. They collected sticks and played pirate ships on a fallen tree trunk. Bean, pumpkin, 8, and plum, 5, played on the large twirly slide together. Pippin, 3, enjoyed the rope swing, swings and smaller slide.

That was topped and tailed with watching Plum watching Elf, bean continuing The Matrix 2 with daddy, bean making a daily calender for himself using coloured paper, a hole punch, the paper slicer, and string. Plum drawing pictures and making cards. Pumpkin organising a nerf war for us all to play and pippin co tinuing to enjoy colouring, play dough and baths with her anna doll and repunzel barbie.

We had a quiet relaxed day at the beginning of the week, now i have overwhelmed with requests to play or help or for food. Sometimes it's quiet, sometimes it's just plain hectic.

Hush

A quiet and peaceful day, all day.

Pippin, 2, sat colouring in her picture book snuggled under the duvet on mummy's bed.

Plum, 5, creating a puzzle display from four puzzles she worked on for hours and a game of animal and colour bingo with mummy.

Sitting with Pumpkin, 8, reading for him as he played The Escapists.

Bean, 9, sharing his favoutie YouTube videos with me and purchasing The Escapist app.

Playing minecraft together for three hours: building houses from instructions in books and playing Hunger Games together.

Reading stories to Bean, Plum and Pippin in the evening and running a bath for Bean.

It's Oh so quiet

At Home Day #3 Pumpkin, 7, was positively bouncing with excitement when i said we had no plans today. Bean, 9, discovered that he can watch dvds on their computer so he and Pumpkin chose two that Plum doesn't enjoy and they watched those, star wars and harry potter. They also play the espcapists and watch dantdm and stampy. I set up skype for Bean on his tablet and we play a skateboarding game together. Bean also has a bath today. And him, pumpkin and plum, 5, watch Kermit Swamp Adventures together in the evening.

Pumpkin is in his happiest when we stay at home. After watching films and youtube he plays a capture in the dark game that he has made up with Bean and Plum. This then turned into wrestling. Followed by general climbing, running, chasing, fighting, energetic games.

Plum mostly watched on her tablet today. She has been very restful. She has been watching Steve and Maggie. She helped me make cupcakes in the evening ready for her party tomorrow. We read stories before bed and she read Ketchup on your Cornflakes to me.

Pippin, 2, has been colouring and playing Bing. She has watched Bing and Topsy and Tim today and also found the Peppa Pig dvd on the shelf so we watched that together.

Rain on the rooftops

Not the day we'd planned (outing into the New Forest, farmer's market, maybe a picnic.) Mainly due to the rain that poured all day and the fact that I hadn't packed any form of waterproofs we had a crafty day with grandma instead.. Bean spending a mammoth one and a half hours colouring in pictures and drawing with stencils. He drew a circus picture and fish under the sea. Pumpkin attributing a nursery rhyme to every picture in the colouring book no matter how tentative the link! 
Grandma and daddy spent some time winding wool around circular card in an attempt to make a bird. Simething Bean started a while ago but I got confused at the instructions and we had a good think about who could help us when cousin B turned up with one he'd made at grandma's...perfect!

Pops and Pumpkin did a lot of puzzles together, in fact, Pumpkin had a very puzzley day.

Bean enjoyed emptying grandma's games cupboard and I enjoyed playing some childhood favourites. We went through known favourites like snakes and ladders, snap and pairs, learnt some new classics like ludo and draughts, and shared those old old games of mine like rings on your fingers.

And Plum enjoying some time with her Pops...or is it Pops enjoying time with Plum?



All in all a lovely family centred day...maybe not that far removed from what we originally planned :)