Monday 29th October
A slight change in routine today as it's half term so our baby rhyme session was not on. It also meant that gymnastics was a little earlier. We cycled, as is becoming our habit, and we stopped off in town on the way. We also played, but only briefly, in the park afterwards too and went to one shop on the return home.
Bean finds it hard to find a good point to eat on Mondays. He might have a little something before gymnastics but then gets carried away with play park fun afterwards and usually doesn't eat the bulk of his lunch until he gets home. It's the only day he goes so long without food and I'm not sure how he does it as most days he seems to eat constantly all morning.
Our Tribe
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Where are you?
Saturday 27th October
Our adventures today took us on a family walk, well, the boys rode their bikes. Daddy wore Plum in the sling and daddy and I actually got to have an uninterrupted conversation...a proper adult one :) I'm thinking this might be the way forward if me and daddy are to find any spare time to talk to each other.
The rain came on and off but dispite this we walked for over an hour. Most notably we found a lost dog. We managed to read the numbers from the collar and daddy used his belt as a lead. The phone numbers were not answering but we had just passed a gentlemen who was searching for the dog and new he had headed in the other direction. I took Plum and the boys back to the car and daddy tried to find the owner. Unfortunately the dog escaped again.
Update: the owners have since let us know that the dog had run home and is safe and sound.
Our adventures today took us on a family walk, well, the boys rode their bikes. Daddy wore Plum in the sling and daddy and I actually got to have an uninterrupted conversation...a proper adult one :) I'm thinking this might be the way forward if me and daddy are to find any spare time to talk to each other.
The rain came on and off but dispite this we walked for over an hour. Most notably we found a lost dog. We managed to read the numbers from the collar and daddy used his belt as a lead. The phone numbers were not answering but we had just passed a gentlemen who was searching for the dog and new he had headed in the other direction. I took Plum and the boys back to the car and daddy tried to find the owner. Unfortunately the dog escaped again.
Update: the owners have since let us know that the dog had run home and is safe and sound.
Each Peach Pear Plum
Tuesday 30th October
A trip to see favourite auntie #1 and cousin B today. Bean and Pumpkin played all day with cousin B, a boys heaven of Lego, train set, hide and seek, skateboarding, remote control cars and mario cart. Consequently I didn't see them very much!
Plum and I spent the day with FA#1 mostly talking with Plum mostly crawling about and emptying bags. She has also taken up waving and clapping as a general entertainment and performs to whoever will look her way along with her general smiley pose for every passer by. After an hours sleep in the car on the journey there she didn't sleep again for the next 7 hours until we got in the car again to come home. She then woke up when we arrived home and spent the evening with us.
A trip to see favourite auntie #1 and cousin B today. Bean and Pumpkin played all day with cousin B, a boys heaven of Lego, train set, hide and seek, skateboarding, remote control cars and mario cart. Consequently I didn't see them very much!
Plum and I spent the day with FA#1 mostly talking with Plum mostly crawling about and emptying bags. She has also taken up waving and clapping as a general entertainment and performs to whoever will look her way along with her general smiley pose for every passer by. After an hours sleep in the car on the journey there she didn't sleep again for the next 7 hours until we got in the car again to come home. She then woke up when we arrived home and spent the evening with us.
Into the mix
Wednesday 31st October
An at home day. These are becoming more frequent Audi am enjoying watching Bean manage his own day and taking up the new vibe of being home more. A lot of the projects that he has started and left half done in various places around the house are being resurrected. Today he varnished/glazed his clay jug he I made at Amberley Museum and has put it aside to dry until tomorrow when he will paint it (that's the plan, anyway)
We had a friend come and play for the day and the weather cleared in the afternoon and we all cycled, scattered and buggied our way round the corner to the park for a stretch of the legs. The three smalls all played together well and Plum and I sat and watched. The dynamics between the boys often changes when another is added into the mix or if we are out with a group but today the added member fitted in effortlessly and the relationship between siblings was not strained or stressed in any way.
Our visitor, age 4 and female, did an excellent job of tidying the kitchen area and also the doll's house. This is not something that happens regularly with the boys and they are both things that are left as the boys leave them. It was a welcome treat to have them tidied.
An at home day. These are becoming more frequent Audi am enjoying watching Bean manage his own day and taking up the new vibe of being home more. A lot of the projects that he has started and left half done in various places around the house are being resurrected. Today he varnished/glazed his clay jug he I made at Amberley Museum and has put it aside to dry until tomorrow when he will paint it (that's the plan, anyway)
We had a friend come and play for the day and the weather cleared in the afternoon and we all cycled, scattered and buggied our way round the corner to the park for a stretch of the legs. The three smalls all played together well and Plum and I sat and watched. The dynamics between the boys often changes when another is added into the mix or if we are out with a group but today the added member fitted in effortlessly and the relationship between siblings was not strained or stressed in any way.
Our visitor, age 4 and female, did an excellent job of tidying the kitchen area and also the doll's house. This is not something that happens regularly with the boys and they are both things that are left as the boys leave them. It was a welcome treat to have them tidied.
Saturday, 3 November 2012
If at first
Thursday 1st November
We had planned to go and meet friends today but it was raining so hard and the destination was not suitable for a buggy and Plum really doesn't like the sling in the rain (who can blame her?) so we cancelled at the last minute. We ran a few errands and went to the farm shop to buy fruit and vegetables.
Half term and the change in seasons have bought about a new vibe in the house. Craft has taken itself up a notch (yes, even more craft) but also digging out old craft and revamping it or picking up craft from the day before and working on it some more. Bean especially is starting to give himself little projects. He's currently working on a robot made from cardboard boxes which he glued together one day and has painted one side today and plans on painting the other side tomorrow when it's dry. The big idea is to fill it with sweets and presents and play pinate with it for my birthday. I love the idea although I'm not sure where he got it from.
We had planned to go and meet friends today but it was raining so hard and the destination was not suitable for a buggy and Plum really doesn't like the sling in the rain (who can blame her?) so we cancelled at the last minute. We ran a few errands and went to the farm shop to buy fruit and vegetables.
Half term and the change in seasons have bought about a new vibe in the house. Craft has taken itself up a notch (yes, even more craft) but also digging out old craft and revamping it or picking up craft from the day before and working on it some more. Bean especially is starting to give himself little projects. He's currently working on a robot made from cardboard boxes which he glued together one day and has painted one side today and plans on painting the other side tomorrow when it's dry. The big idea is to fill it with sweets and presents and play pinate with it for my birthday. I love the idea although I'm not sure where he got it from.
The Bug Hotel
Friday 2nd November
The reason I keep a blog is to help me remember ...I am writing this 24 hours after the event and without the aid of photos and I am struggling to remember. We met daddy in the afternoon at the library so that I could go to the phone shop to have them take a look at my phone that has developed a life of its own. Unfortunately the 'guru' (technical guy) isn't in on Fridays so we will have to go back tomorrow.
We spent a very happy hour in the garden putting all our prebuilt bits into the casing for the bug hotel and collecting up bark and twigs and leaves that we have gathered to put in it too. Bean found a plastic lid and filled it with water for the bugs to drink and thankfully a bug came to drink out of it! Bean and Pumkpin also collected bugs to bring to the hotel, they found several different spiders, worms of various sizes, snails and wood lice.
The reason I keep a blog is to help me remember ...I am writing this 24 hours after the event and without the aid of photos and I am struggling to remember. We met daddy in the afternoon at the library so that I could go to the phone shop to have them take a look at my phone that has developed a life of its own. Unfortunately the 'guru' (technical guy) isn't in on Fridays so we will have to go back tomorrow.
We spent a very happy hour in the garden putting all our prebuilt bits into the casing for the bug hotel and collecting up bark and twigs and leaves that we have gathered to put in it too. Bean found a plastic lid and filled it with water for the bugs to drink and thankfully a bug came to drink out of it! Bean and Pumkpin also collected bugs to bring to the hotel, they found several different spiders, worms of various sizes, snails and wood lice.
Fireworks
Thankfully when I say 'fireworks' I mean the real ones that come about at this time of year and not any sort of explosive happenings between family members! ...which, of course, is always possible.
Our days seem very lazy at the moment and we just about made it out of the door to arrive at a friends birthday party (one of those organised adventures at the local leisure centre) we had a quite a rough night which after discussing tiredness and babies being awake in the night and how we respond to them, at length on fb yesterday and with some disagreement, it seemed to be our gentle reminder of just how tiring it can be. Plum woke at 2.30, fed, and then lay awake kicking about until 4am when she had another feed and went back to sleep until 6.30 for another feed and then back to sleep. Simultaneously the boys woke up every half an hour between 4am and 7.30 before they finally got out of bed. I responded to plum, daddy responded to the boys, consequently a very tired family this morning.
My afternoon consisted largely of taking a nap with Plum, who unsurprisingly slept for a record 2 1/2 hours and daddy completed the bug hotel with the boys by putting on some roof felting, adding some bamboo for ladybirds and covering the front with netting so all the contents doesn't fall out. The bug hotel has been about 9 months in the making but is finally finished and we are all very proud of it.
I also popped into town to try and get my phone fixed but it has to be sent off! This could possibly mean a lack of photos until it returns but the point worth noting is that I went on my own. Yes, no smalls. That's the first time in a minimum of 10 months that I have been shopping on my own and apart from feeling like I had forgotten something I quite enjoyed it.
Our days seem very lazy at the moment and we just about made it out of the door to arrive at a friends birthday party (one of those organised adventures at the local leisure centre) we had a quite a rough night which after discussing tiredness and babies being awake in the night and how we respond to them, at length on fb yesterday and with some disagreement, it seemed to be our gentle reminder of just how tiring it can be. Plum woke at 2.30, fed, and then lay awake kicking about until 4am when she had another feed and went back to sleep until 6.30 for another feed and then back to sleep. Simultaneously the boys woke up every half an hour between 4am and 7.30 before they finally got out of bed. I responded to plum, daddy responded to the boys, consequently a very tired family this morning.
My afternoon consisted largely of taking a nap with Plum, who unsurprisingly slept for a record 2 1/2 hours and daddy completed the bug hotel with the boys by putting on some roof felting, adding some bamboo for ladybirds and covering the front with netting so all the contents doesn't fall out. The bug hotel has been about 9 months in the making but is finally finished and we are all very proud of it.
I also popped into town to try and get my phone fixed but it has to be sent off! This could possibly mean a lack of photos until it returns but the point worth noting is that I went on my own. Yes, no smalls. That's the first time in a minimum of 10 months that I have been shopping on my own and apart from feeling like I had forgotten something I quite enjoyed it.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)