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.

All together now

Monday morning and Plum, 5, is off to Little Verse with SGG and SGS and had a lovely time, Bean, 9, and Pumpkin, 8, watched Pirates of the Carribean: Journey to World's End. I mostly sat and watched it with them in between replenishing drinks and snacks. Pippin, 2, was lethargic and cuddly and sat on my lap the entire morning until she finally fell asleep just as the film was ending.

By this time Plum was home. She put on turbo to watch and then sat in the dinning room playing with her ice cream and cake making playdough sets. Next she put on Nanny McPhee three times, she has begun reciting parts of it now, she continued playing playdough all afternoon too. At one point she was taking prints of dollies hands, feet and face and then covered his head in playdough.

Pippin woke with a temperature and we breastfed and cuddled a lot more whilst watching nanny mcphee. We then went and had a look at different programming websites for Bean. We booked marked all the ones that have been recommended to us and began playing on a few of them. We got a lot of suggestions from a fb group called My Unschooler is Interested In. We got plenty of suggestions for us to investigate and find what works for him. His current favourites are Scratch and Codecombat. We also found roblox and i left him and Pumpkin playing games on there.

Plum and I sat on the sofa and cuddled in the evening whilst Pippin had a bath and bed. Bean and Pumpkin had a bath and were watching Dude, That's My Ghost. Pumpkin came downstairs to play a minecraft card game with me that he got for his birthday but it was no where to be seen. We looked for it for about 30 minutes before we gave up. We will resume our search tomorrow.