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An At Home Day today, much needed although we did end up popping out to collect the car which included a trip to the shop for apple supplies.

Bean, 9, has been a whirlwind of activity. He began with making a projector using a tutorial he had seen on YouTube. He needed a little help with the craft knife but it was a really simple idea. The image came out upside down and he fiddled with it on and off all day until he had worked out how to get it to project the correct way up.

I had made moonsand for Plum, 5, and her friend J who was coming to play. Bean immediately began construction on The Great Wall of China and a whole heap of questions ensued about who built the wall and why and can you climb over it.

Bean showed me a riddle he had heard on The ANT Farm about Antoni and Cleopatra and Ceaser, we worked it out together and then Bean was asking questions about who they were so we pulled the Egyptian book off the shelf and looked them up.

Next we searched for the Usbourne book on castles as Bean wanted to build a castle in minecraft. This was followed by 5 card draw which Pumpkin, 8, joined in and we used pennies to bet with.

I played Top Trumps (superheroes) and Plop Trumps with Pumpkin and we tried to all hook up via multiplayer on Terreria and Minecraft but for some reason we couldn't.

Our friends A and J came to play. Plum and J played together for hours, Pippin, 2, joined in too. They played moonsand and in the rabbit hutch and then doll's house and Grosseries.

Pippin put on Peppa Pig and we watched The Angry Birds movie. Pippin got a giant floor puzzle out and we put it together and then took it apart more than a few times.

It was an unexpectedly active day.

An apple a day

Monday: Gaston Farm
Our annual trip to the lambing was met with mixed results. Bean, 9, Absolutely loved it, mostly the animal handling, we even discussed getting our own chicken eggs to incubate and hatch. Pumpkin, 8, and Plum, 5, enjoyed the trip and liked stroking the animals, Pumpkin did hold the chicks and ducklings and walking across the board through the sheep shed. Pippin, 2, was terrified of all the animals and clung to me like a limpit saying 'scared scared' all day. We did all enjoy the tractor ride and the play park. Bean tried an apple and liked it. He ate two more in the evening.

We were squeezed into a corsa today as our viano is at the garage again, this time replacing a coroded water tank. The good Lord must have known that i'd need a tiny car for our trip to Guildford.

Tuesday: Airhop
We went to Airhop today with friend T only to find that the group booking we were attending had been cancelled two weeks ago because it's the school holidays in Surrey. It was 11am and they had room for us at 1pm. Plum had already declared this to be the most exciting day because she has never been to Airhop before so we booked in for later. We drove to Stoke Park but ended up playing on the large grass areas in the Spectrum. Bean was most upset that our plans had changed, coupled with us having been out everyday for four days and it being a while since breakfast, he got exceedingly angry with Pumpkin over a toy they had in the car. There was no reasoning with him and it led to Pumpkin being really upset too. Bean wanted to go home, we cuddled lots. On the way back to Airhop Pumpkin apologised to Bean which prompted Bean to apologise too and then they worked out who could have the toy.
Plum bounced with T's mum for the hour and i sat in the cafe with Pippin being visited by the others for drink breaks. The boys enjoyed the dodge ball and doing tricks in the main area, jumping up onto the wall. An excellent time was had by all.
Exhausted back home everyone sat and watched their own thing, Fungus the Bogeyman was on again and Bean asked to learn how to play Poker which we did.

Apple eating also continued.