Getting better...

Right so after two and a half almost three weeks of illness we are back! It has been a lot harder than before as it was both He-Man and myself who were sick. We ended up using the tried and true stack of DVDs for the kids and Take-aways for dinner a lot more often than we wanted, but we got there in the end. Now we are out the other side of the worst of it we are trying to catch up on sleep and return some normality to the kids lives. This is easier said than done as I'm now finding getting around even harder. (I will not end up on crutches!!!!) We are also counting down to the arrival of Granny and then baby.. Only 5 weeks to go!!!!

 

Miss Boos new favorite piece of playground equipment - see-saw!

While today started badly in terms of how I felt, but it has definitely picked up. The sun is shinning and its not too hot and so the kids have been outside almost all day.

Monkey has been wanting to do more of his alphabet learning stuff with me so while Miss Boo was down for a nap we pulled out some of the activities we had stored for a while. I am going to keep doing a bit of the alphabet stuff but to be honest Monkey knows all the sounds pretty well now so I am starting to little mini themes as well. As it is spring we started today on some spring activities. Talking about plants groaning and doing some line tracing. This follows on nicely from what he has been doing at kindy where he sprouted some pea seeds which are now groaning apply in our garden.

I have been wanting to done of these sensory tubs for a while. Now is the perfect opportunity as Miss Boo is needing to feel like she is just like her brother and wants to be doing "work" to.

First to dye the pasta shapes, using hand sanitizer and food coloring - they are really green and pink, I promise!

Ready for Miss Boo

So using stuff I had around the house I made a mini version of one. I hope I'll be able to get a bigger container soon as that one is just not big enough. Especially as I have two sets of hands trying to get to everything. Monkey was more taken with this activity than I expected. He did love helping to put it together and was so excited it was al he could do to wait until Miss Boo woke up from her nap.
Dying the pasta was super easy, Im going to us the same pasta (even though its pink and green, not red and green) for a christmas box.

Filling the cups

Picking the flowers

Both have loved scooping and pouring the pasta more than anything else today but we will see what else they do as time goes on. Monkey is already talking about using it to tell stories.

Now its time for more play outside and a little nana nap for me I think....

"Hey baby you in there?"

Cloud spotting!