BIG numbers turn into Clocks!

We have been playing with our BIG numbers this week...so cold that many days have been playing in our PJ's till well into the morning.
Lots of counting going on with our reward system for baths in full swing...so we can count upto 25 but how about number recognition.
Decided to go into my bag of tricks and pull out the big numbers. I was acctually surprised that N was able to recogise almost all 1-10. A little mix up with 6 and 9 but wwho wouldn't.
"Like on the clock mum"
So we pulled out a clock and tried to orgainise the numbers like a clock.

This has opened up such a topic of conversation for us. Asking everyone what thier favourite numbers are, reading house numbers when we go visiting even the speed limits "mum that is a 4 and a 0 on that sign".



Clever munchkin....what does 3 have in store!

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When home sick why not start a hospital!

Well Winter has arrived and along with it trips to the doctor and the dreaded cough and cold. So along with real trips to the doctor we set up a hospital in the lounge room.
"Mummy I have a sore leg, you need to fix it"
SO I decided to get a bandage to add to our imaginative play and of course one bandage wasn't enough.




I love that since Nate was very little the doctor has been impressed with how happily and well he does as asked. Happily lets the dr looking in his ears, say aaahhhh, and coughs at all the right times. The Dr kit has definatley been one of our fav props for play.

SO much fun, so much laughter........I love my Job!

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Balloon Tennis

With Daddy's passion being tennis it was no surprise it would be something we did in our family often.....even if mummy has two left hands! What fun we had playing lounge room tennis for our Friday night activity this week. With miss 5month old looking on the lounge room became the court and master Nate must take after daddy with that amazing back hand.




All you need is some space, a balloon and some wooden spoons! Have fun

In honour of the world cup - we continued with our balloon sport and set up some goals for some kicking practice.



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More May madness

Balloons are always a hit in our house, so I thought why not use them for craft. I haven't done this since my days at pre-school with the kids and was sure Nate would enjoy it. I set out the table and when Nate saw it he was very excited - we did page after page of "a splotch over here, and a splotch over there" singing as we went.



We were experimenting with colours this week and tried out an Experiment with milk, food colouring and a spoon for mixing.

First to fill the glasses with milk - "what are we doing mum?" the anticipation growing




Then we added the food colouring, a drop in each glass. First was red and yellow leaving a glass in the middle. Then we added one of each to that glass and made orange. Next was to do a blue and then mix blue and yellow in the glass between them..."wow mum green". Finally then blue and red together to make purple.




It was fun just mixing a bit here and a bit there of all the colours. we ended up with a selection of nice browns!

May fun and games

Although the weather hasn't been too exciting we've been very busy and enjoying life!
I made the mistake of promising that we could do some painting with our feet and we got busy so when asked at 5pm on a friday afternoon if it was the right time, I had no choice but to keep my promise.
Once all set up Mstr N decided he didn't want to get his feet dirty so we improvised and did some great painting with the wheels of cars, our hands, printing with shapes and when daddy got home we also did some fruit prints with apples!





We have been talking alot about Skeletons and Dinosaurs and planned a trip to the museum to check it all out. Mstr N not so keen on large sounds or the huge dinosaurs so stayed firmly in daddy's arms. Piper oblivious to it all enjoyed her day up, out and about in the baby bjorn smiling at everyone who even looked her way.
Some great discoveries to be made looking through magnifying glasses and into the draws of the museum. What a great family day out.