days like this…

Miss 4: “mum! watch me, watch me, watch me!!!”
me: *watching*

miss 4: “OK are you ready mum?”
me: “Yep, I’m ready”

miss 4: “OK mum close your eyes”

me: *eyes closed*

{insert loud swishing jumping landing sound here}

miss 4: “mum!! You didn’t watch!! I did my trick & you didn’t watch!”

me: “but you told me to close my eyes”

miss 4: “but I also told you to watch!”

(if this has confused you, try having that conversation while you are washing a two year olds hair & the two year old is crying “stop washing my hair! It’s ruining my whole day!”)

Here’s a little of the play going on here lately…

The lady beetles are out. Ava made a wish & found one hiding underneath…

The girls have been spending time outside collecting lady beetles from the rose bushes…

Ava & I went to the shops to choose some wool & we are creating a little something together with these colours…

 Ava asked how she could ‘keep’ the roses, so she’s been pressing them in books…

and there’s always plenty of drawing happening these days….

There’s still plenty of love going on at dolls house central…

and no shortage of ‘ballet concerts’ or ‘princess ballerina concerts’ or ‘fairy princess ballet’ concerts… & no they are not all the same thing…

and a personal favourite of mine for when the kids are looking a little unsure of what to play/do next …

we bring out the pretend cooking with real things from the kitchen. They mix, stir & pour their little hearts out making what ever it is they imagine they are making…

The excitement is building for Ava’s 5th birthday & Christmas day. I found Ava staring at the fireplace today saying

“Oh no!!”

me: What’s wrong?”

“Santa isn’t going to fit through our fireplace!”

me: “I’m sure it will be OK”

“No it won’t be OK. Look at the size of that fire place & don’t you remember how big Santa is!?”

me: What do you suggest he does then

“We can leave a note on the roof that says, ‘to get in please make a huge hole in our roof with a hammer’ “

(She’s a thinker!)