And The Bear Came Too

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Playing.

I've spent most of the day seeing this view of Isaac. The boy loves running!

And running...

And spinning.

And erm I'm not entirely sure what he thinks he's doing here but he's been putting his head in the sand a lot today, maybe he's being an ostrich.

The dog had fun destroying a ball this evening.

I think I need to take more care of my hands...

Isaac's been watching me setting up the camera to take pictures of what I'm wearing or to show slings where I set up the self-timer and then sit the camera on something. Several times this afternoon he took the camera off me and put it down on the lid of the sandpit and then either walked away in shot to wait for it to do something or at other times he just stood in front of it and pressed the shutter. I suspect it won't be long before he works out how to set the self-timer!

Garden.

It's been lovely weather in the last few days, although windy, and the garden is beginning to get some colour.

I love alliums. There's something magical about these clusters of little stars that's so pretty and yet so yet they're so structural. I had a few in the garden before it was redone and this one has survived and has popped up and looks gorgeous.

Peonies are one of my favourite flowers and we inherited one in the garden. It's a blowsy pink and late flowering. It usually manages to be at its best when we go away in May and this year looks like its on course again to be in full bloom next week!

The new plants are beginning to get established and some are even starting to flower.

And the bulbs that I planted in pots are beginning to fade.

Sunday, 10 May 2009

Mini Beach.

When we were at Danna's last week we collected a load of oyster shells to use in the sandpit so today I cleared out all the plastic toys and got out the shells to see what Isaac made of them.

He loved digging with the really big one!

And spent ages dumping sand (initially over the side until I persuaded him that this wasn't such a good idea...).

All in all it was a huge success. Although he did also reclaim some of the plastic toys.

Saturday, 9 May 2009

I want to ride my bicycle

We've been doing a little painting and have been breaking Striker's rules by using two colours. Isaac was painting just with the blue as we've not done much art recently but he saw the red on top of the fridge and asked for it (using the sign for red) so I wasn't going to say no. I like Striker's ideas but I'm all for being child-led.

We spent a fun hour or so in the park this afternoon. Isaac loves the seesaw. And wouldn't get off it. As usual though he was doing lots of looking around whilst playing and kept taking his hands (and feet) off to point at something or make a sign or just bounce!

And then we went home and he got on his bike. His legs are long enough now that he can reach the pedals and make them move but he's been going backwards only until today. He still finds it harder to go forwards than backwards but he was getting better by the minute.