Allsorts

A round up of the last few weeks achievements and such........

Bike riding..J learnt to ride a pedal bike super quickly, which meant we could go on a bike ride, as A had already mastered the art of riding his bike, and H just hares along on his balance bike like a lunatic!!! (A struggles with things not going according to his way of doing things, so we have had many bikes in the hedge incidents - he is getting there though. )
This first proper ride was 3 miles in total and they all did it!!

Playing in the tray with kitty litter as it looks like stones for building and digger play. (note to self: worst idea ever as it ended up every where and when wet turns to clay!)

J the climbing one.

Guinea pigs out on the grass for the day

someone was so happy with our new van, that they didn't want to get out!!!

New van!!

Playing in the bath with lots of different kitchen equipment on a rainy day

Making bath bombs!!

H's amazing drawing of a sunshine

more grass nibbling

At the Go-kart track with daddy!!!! Noisy!!!!

Special duties to feed the lambs again

St Georges Day Parade

Flag bearer!!!!

Friday.....at last

Sullington Warren for a walk and play in the woods. H wanted to take his bike.....here he is in action!! In the minute after this he went careering down a hill and scrapped his knee. He got back up and got back on!!

We also went swimming on Wednesday. On our own with no other adult. It was good, they all enjoyed themselves and no one drowned! Getting changed afterwards was the best bit, as the two big ones went in a cubicle together and got dressed themselves!!!!!

Foam arrived for the pallet sofa!! Love it! It now has covers too so looks great!!!

Blood under the microscope, from a picked scab....yuck!!

Thursday was an educational visit to Bignor Roman Villa. Was a really good day, just the right amount of hands on, to listening and looking.

Roman Soldiers

Making mosaics (apparently when they made a mosaic they would always put a piece in wrong, so J did the same......can you spot it?)

Grinding corn with a stone. Very proud of J as he went first out of our group and did it really well!

More grinding. They made a fair amount of flour at the end.

We also had a go a spinning some wool. Afterwards we headed off to a near by park for a picnic and the weather was glorious!!

Super horrid headache when we got home, and lots of crazy punching and screaming so an early night for all. It did them good though as this morning it is quieter! We have had the scaletrix out this morning, as I managed to mend a broken piece.

Off to Fishers again, to meet up with friends, think we spent around 3 and a half hours there and we are now suitably worn out. Maybe another early night on the cards......

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!