We had two consecutive days at home followed by two consecutive highly busy days.
Thursday and friday were At Home Days. Thursday was very relaxed with lots of watching and computer games, play dough, colouring. The children were relaxed and i got to spend concentrated and uninterupted time with each of them. Plum, 5, and i put together the new rabbit hutch which took 2 1/2 hours in total. Bean, 10, popped out every now and then and gave us a hand and pippin, 3, kept an eye on proceedings in between cartoons and playdough. Bean went out with daddy and bought a pumpkin in the evening.
Friday bean carved a pumpkin with me as his did not turn out as expected earlier in the week. Pippin and plum and i baked a marble tray bake to take to fireworks at the church in the evening. Pumpkin didn't get up until after midday! And in the wvening we went to the church with friends and had fireworks and sparklers and soup.
Saturday we were up and out looking at houses and home for a late lunch. Bean and i went into town to spend his pocket money. He had been planning on saving it to buy a nerf gun with pumpkin but three days from getting the next instalment he decided he wanted to spend it. He bought a remote control skateboard, a lolly for himself and kinder eggs for the other three. Then it was back home for a quick feed up before daddy took the big three to fireworks at the cricket club with their friend T.
Sunday was church day followed by a trip to Polesden Lacy where we meet friend A and J and did the Wizard of Oz trail, perfect for Plum who has recently watched the film several times. We had a great time rolling down the hill and walking along the trim trail in the woods. Plum climbed a tree higher than i have ever seen her climb and bean helped guide her back down again. By the time we got home everyone was exhausted and we relaxed all evening with food and The Simpsons.
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Monday, 30 October 2017
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Indoors and Outdoors
Monday
A whole day of cleaning down, sanding and painting the wood items in the garden, the pickett fence, the children's picnic bench and the loveseat. It also involved three baths for the girls and a mega hair wash but we completed the experience with using the hairdryer and spraying detangler in and the result was salon looking hair!
Bean, 9, and Pumpkin, 8, have finally got their computer back in working order so a day of roblox and playing on the wii ensued alongside lego. Bean did come and have a go at ysing the electric sander for a while too.
Tuesday
We took a trip to do Pond Dipping at Pulborough Brooks, i think it's the third or fourth year in a row we have done it. Pumpkin especially loves it. Bean, Plum, 5, and Pippin, 2, all had a dip. They loved finding the creatures in the water and Bean and Pumpkin were finding out what things were by using the identification sheet.
We ate our picnic in the playarea in the sunshine and then tree climbing in the surrounding woods. Plum amd Pippin bought an ice cream each in the shop, Bean bought a bee pin badge and Pumpkin bought a swallowtail butterfly badge.
Pumpkin played roblox back at home, bean watched the loud house with Plum and Pippin had a long nap. Bean and i played Poker together whilst Pippin drew pictures and we downloaded Sims4 for Pumpkin.
A whole day of cleaning down, sanding and painting the wood items in the garden, the pickett fence, the children's picnic bench and the loveseat. It also involved three baths for the girls and a mega hair wash but we completed the experience with using the hairdryer and spraying detangler in and the result was salon looking hair!
Bean, 9, and Pumpkin, 8, have finally got their computer back in working order so a day of roblox and playing on the wii ensued alongside lego. Bean did come and have a go at ysing the electric sander for a while too.
Tuesday
We took a trip to do Pond Dipping at Pulborough Brooks, i think it's the third or fourth year in a row we have done it. Pumpkin especially loves it. Bean, Plum, 5, and Pippin, 2, all had a dip. They loved finding the creatures in the water and Bean and Pumpkin were finding out what things were by using the identification sheet.
We ate our picnic in the playarea in the sunshine and then tree climbing in the surrounding woods. Plum amd Pippin bought an ice cream each in the shop, Bean bought a bee pin badge and Pumpkin bought a swallowtail butterfly badge.
Pumpkin played roblox back at home, bean watched the loud house with Plum and Pippin had a long nap. Bean and i played Poker together whilst Pippin drew pictures and we downloaded Sims4 for Pumpkin.
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
I want to be a tree
Friday 22nd June
Making use of our National Trust Home Ed membership again (although we have already made up for the mere £36 that it cost us) we took a trip to Polesden Lacey. We spent most of the time walking through the woods, climbing trees, balancing on fallen trees, bird watching, climbing tree stumps and announcing 'I want to be a tree' (Pumpkin) whilst standing on top of a tree stump.
We did manage to eat a picnic lunch, play a giant game of chess and spot some mushrooms before the drizzle came. It was incredibly windy today and they have lots of wide open space for flying in (one of the 50 things to do before you are 11 3/4.)
We made it to the house just before a downpour. Unfortunately Plum had just fallen asleep in the buggy and although I had the sling I was reluctant to transfer her as she is often disturbed by one thing (boys!) or another (outings) so we got to sit in the entrance. The staff very kindly radioed for a lift to take us to the car park which was great as Pumpkin was getting tired.
As with other National Trust properties there was plenty of activities and trails for the children to do although we didn't do any of them today we did help ourselves to a pair of binoculars. Unfortunately as we were returned to the car park we forgot to return the binoculars to the kiddies corner so we now have a bright yellow pair in the glove box of our car...ready for our next visit :)
Making use of our National Trust Home Ed membership again (although we have already made up for the mere £36 that it cost us) we took a trip to Polesden Lacey. We spent most of the time walking through the woods, climbing trees, balancing on fallen trees, bird watching, climbing tree stumps and announcing 'I want to be a tree' (Pumpkin) whilst standing on top of a tree stump.
We did manage to eat a picnic lunch, play a giant game of chess and spot some mushrooms before the drizzle came. It was incredibly windy today and they have lots of wide open space for flying in (one of the 50 things to do before you are 11 3/4.)
We made it to the house just before a downpour. Unfortunately Plum had just fallen asleep in the buggy and although I had the sling I was reluctant to transfer her as she is often disturbed by one thing (boys!) or another (outings) so we got to sit in the entrance. The staff very kindly radioed for a lift to take us to the car park which was great as Pumpkin was getting tired.
As with other National Trust properties there was plenty of activities and trails for the children to do although we didn't do any of them today we did help ourselves to a pair of binoculars. Unfortunately as we were returned to the car park we forgot to return the binoculars to the kiddies corner so we now have a bright yellow pair in the glove box of our car...ready for our next visit :)
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