Thursday, 19 August 2010

The first trip

So how to survive Matthew's first (thankfully short) trip away when I have two children...

We went to the home ed group yesterday and did natural disasters including a volcano. I want to do this again - not for Isaac just cos it's fun.


Isabel is mostly dribbling and chomping.



oh and sleeping.


And to please the boy we went to Heyford Wharf where you can see trains, boats and drink coffee (me not him).




Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Caught red handed

Note to self, make sure he's using the paper...


Strap hanging - life is hard for a young commuter...


Monday, 16 August 2010

Sunday, 15 August 2010

Holding court

She went in the high chair for the first time today and had a lovely time trying to pick the pears off the tablecloth.



Preparing

She's getting more mobile & wants to be into everything




Rain & PJs the best time for some chalk drawing


The best bit of cake baking is the offcuts





Most of the household are having a pre-party nap. If only I was...

Friday, 13 August 2010

Sleeping beauties

It's so lovely when they sleep. If only they'd do it at the same time life would be peachy.



And then this afternoon we went to play at Leonardo's (an Italian wholesalers) where we were treated to lots of morsels of Italian loveliness and one of us spent a lot of money (that would be my mum).


Wednesday, 11 August 2010

Hanging around

It's amazing the things you find in strange places...


that's the loop of the bannister support on the stairs

with some experimentation he worked out that the donkey (horse), pig, sheep and the other cow all also would hang on the bannister but the dog and zebra wouldn't.


When we went to the park he wanted to take 'baby'. I suggested that her sitting on the crossbar perhaps wasn't the safest place for her to be and so the sling was used instead. I can assure you that this is not something he's seen me do and I wouldn't recommend it with a real child.


Of course 'baby' then went on the swing...


and the climbing frame


but was then swapped for breadsticks.


There really aren't many pictures of me with my children as I'm usually the one with the camera (or I look like death!).


We had friends round this afternoon and there was a requirement to do some art.


Herself is trying to do things that are far too grown up - like sit up.


A very strange game of chess ensued in the middle of the railway track. The set comprised of kings, queens and donkeys (the boy is donkey obsessed for some reason) but no princesses much to M's annoyance.