Winds are blowing and the rain has been belting down. Luckily the weather hasn't stopped our play and we managed to dodge it today.
Saturday A had a shooting tournament, and he did really well. I don't know what the score outcome was yet however, but he certainly enjoyed it.
Yesterday J had rugby, which was a good session. He joined in for nearly all of it and is gaining confidence and friends!!
We then headed over to Brighton to meet up with new friends. We managed to bankrupt daddy in about 30mins 😂😂😂 but we all had a good time and finished up in Mod on the marina. A cool pick your own pizza place.
Today has been wet and busy.
Just a snap shot of what we got up to. The boys were busy in the garden armed with hammers etc, we had a walkie-talkie walk on the common and did some stained glass painting. We also ventured into Seawhites and the Range for some crafty bits too. Boys enjoy looking at the Christmas lights!
We had a bit of a disastrous return to Out of Bounds soft play yesterday, as a few of the mothers in there seemed to have it in for any child older than 5 yrs and A was picked on quite a bit....by said grown ups. We had a good play with their friends though and wore everyone out.
The morning wasn't too bad with a successful shopping trip, where i was congratulated on having such polite well behaved boys!! It does happen you know!
A has had a shooting tournament this morning and he did very well, we have to wait until it has finished to see where his team came, but he is quite a good shot.
We did some action shots in the woods this afternoon, with a ninja turtle!!!
We have been enjoying a few spontaneous art sessions recently . It's lovely to see J who is normally allergic to crafty stuff, really getting involved and using his Imagination to the max!
We need to work on all of them not putting each other down when one does something that another views as not right. But we are getting there.
Finally after a week of the stupid hour change I think we are nearly back to normal , as in yesterday wasn't 79 hours long. . . . . .
We have a fun weekend of gin festival, and fireworks and rugby, where J may get involved in a small match.
He was not happy at rugby last week and we ended up coming home as he refused to join in. Hopefully it won't happen this week.
H has been "reading" lots by copying A, it has caused many tantrums from J who cannot see that H is just copying and not truly reading the words. . . . . That J is so desperate to learn. J can read but he doesn't apply himself to get the job done and then gets quickly frustrated when he comes across a word he can't decide. We will get there. A was 7.5 yes before he was an independent reader so J still has a year on him.
I think we will start putting Literacy Planet into our daily routine again.
For an art session this coming week I think we will focus on Rememberence Day. And an on going but unfinished project of space will be front of the queue too.
A and J have also shown an interest in Street Dance, so we can look into that too.
I tried to get on with the blogger app for the millionth time, wrote a post added pictures. . . . . . .as usual it didn't save and all is lost again ðŸ˜
So starting afresh we have been. . . . .
Engineering workshop
Woodland playing
Cooking
Painting
Crafting Halloween luminaries
Hikes up to chanctonbury
Sheffield Park nature trail
Dew pond
Minor surgery for A, blue bear was all scrubbed in too! ! !
Tree climbing
Random morning of craft
Afternoon of guy fawkes, poems and fireworks.
Exploring different mediums to produce different effects.
I think I became a little overwhelmed with life after my last posts...it's hard to want to keep on getting up day after day when you know what will lie in wait for you because of constant needs of difficult children. It wasn't fun and luckily it has passed, until the next time of course 😉
So on a happier note here is what we have been up to over the last few weeks...
A random afternoon in and around worthing ending on the beach.
Henfield common in all the stinky water and raspberries from the farm shop.
Gaba and Pops round for dinner and obligatory bowling on wii. Pops also got on the snow board hilarious 😂 😂
J started rugby. It's taken him a few weeks but he is joining in and enjoying it now. First match this Sunday!
Daddies birthday....a week of excess!!!
H helped to make this stunning cake!
In amongst all the devilishness, they still are cuties.
Visit to Drusillas with lots of friends. Great day had by all.
Halloween costumes arrived!
Weald and Downland after rugby, tired for a certain few.
Absolutely beautiful walk up on chanctonbury, we could see for miles!!!!
After our walk up chanctonbury, we went to Sheffield Park and tested out their nature trail. It was given a thumbs up let's go back tomorrow!! We also found an old dry lock.
Natural see saw 😊
We have also been swimming again with friends, or rather A did and I took the others into soft play. It makes A feel very grownup to do these things by himself.
Following on our busy week, we went to the Blue Reef Aquarium with Nana.
Boys in a tank!!!
Sharks!!!!
After we had exhausted the aquarium we wandered along the seafront and discovered Southsea Castle.....
Underground tunnels....you can tell someone was scared!
A created this block castle, copying the picture on the lid.
J made his own 😉
A really good day out with only one fight near the end....with fists and everything.
Going for a slightly quieter day yesterday we ended up at the Dinosaur Park with coffee and rockyroad. J made himself a friend who was home educated too and we stayed for around 2.5hrs. He and A certainly filled up their social cup!
This cheeky one ❤
We even managed to go shopping without hassle. A and J had their own shopping list as they wanted to make rockyroad and needed to buy the ingredients. It worked amazingly and we were out in 25mins!!!!
Stopped off at Bramber Castle for a quick Milo walk and then home for pizza.
Much quieter day today, but actually they could probably have done with going out again properly as they were prowling around, but at least I got my accounts work done.
A has gone off on a night hike with Daddy tonight with Cubs, and I am enjoying a nice glass of red and finishing off this post.....which I started on Monday!!!!!!
As a note i have noticed that H has become a lot more outgoing this last week, talking to more people.....by using his bear as a puppet. A did this too.
