Still Hot.......

The weekend seemed to pass quite quickly, we made a new pallet sofa for the garden, that I painted on Sunday (pics to follow!) and we took the boys along the Downs Link at Southwater to ride their bikes. Quite successful, J is a maniac, A is a defeatist, and H did really well!!!

We tried a little experiment with the two eldest over the weekend where we didn't give them a bedtime, they were to go to bed when they felt tired. Not going to happen long term. I, for one, feel that after spending every daylight hour with them, that I need some down time away from them. Saturday night A didn't head to bed until after 930pm.......and he didn't stop talking the whole time. The next night it wasn't much better and they actually went to bed better the night after as I think they need the routine of bedtime. Even a little later than normal. I wouldn't mind what time they went to bed, if they got up accordingly in the morning, but they don't, they are early risers and it makes for a long hard day of battles when they are tired. (which is always when they don't sleep properly!)

A is going through a bit of a weird phase at the moment where he seems to be wearing all his winter clothes, on the hottest days of the year so far. The boy who in the middle of winter would not wear a coat or any kind of layer is making up for it now......strange.

Lots of independent play and learning going on this week. We took the boys Hudls away from them a few weeks ago as their behaviour and general well being seemed to be suffering, along with mine!

After the first week they stopped asking about them, the Minecraft obsession ebbed off a bit and sleeping improved a little too. Our TV watching has drastically gone down as well, maybe only watching it a handful of times.....not every day...... Lego has reappeared along with lots of long lost toys from the cupboard. J has spent a few days searching for parts to a Megazord Power Ranger that was a christmas present that never got played with, just broken up, he managed it and now it is THE toy of the moment, along with Buzz and Woody, Octonouts and Diggers.

Sandpit play (H's favourite)

Water play, seeing which objects float and sink. Some were quite suprising!

Unifix cubes and play money arrived. Patterns, buildings, counting........

Iron Man has made a few appearances over the last few days!

Fishers Splash Attack in their pants, as we didn't realise that it would be open yet!!

And lots of reading Harry Potter, H learning to ride his balance bike properly and relaxing on our new pallet sofa in the garden has summed up the beginning of this week!