moments

Sat avo i took the kids to get dougnuts and a milk shake,
it was nice to go to the supermarket and not do anything but sit and enjoy the kids joy in a treat.

Griffen ready to roll

peper pig moment, jumping in muddy puddles

Box & Block Shape Sorter - thinking cap

Box and Block Shape Sorter

Dylan took a fancy to this box and had taken it to is room and 'packed' it with stuff as I was tidying his room up and picking out the blocks from the box i had a thought ~ that a box shape sorter might get the kids to play together nicely as they can sit either side of it.

Dylan loved the idea of drawing around his blocks to get the shape, I used a craft knife to cut the shapes out. Pipi (now 10mths) took a fancy to the shapes cut out too.

It was a hit with both of them Dylan and Pipi played with it for half an hour then when Dylan moved on Pipi played with it further.

Since then Dylan has drawn around a plate to get a circle to cut out for a helipad he really liked the whole concept of tracing around an object.

 

have fun Noni

animals behaving badly - only human on humpday

What has been happening here?

I splashed out and got a few more fish for our fish tank, some sward tails, they are really nice. I managed to kill one on the first day, way to go sassy you fish killer. So far so good for all the others though, I panic every time i see one having a nap "oh shit shit shit I've killed another fish, tap glass, phew false alarm its just sleeping" can't wait for my boy to role play that one out at kindy!

my fish have sick sense of humour, playing dead is not funny,  play it at your own risk you will get mistakenly flushed!

Speaking of that sort of thing, Flynn was pulling on some left over decorations (yes i still have xmas decorations outside that need taking down) and as he pulled on the said " get down ya mongrels!" 3 times in a row. Now that's one of my husbands fave naughty words. I know its not that bad but its still not pleasant out of a 4 year old's mouth.

white cat Griffen "feed me I'm growing babies"
Grey cat Zephyr "feed me, I'm a bikkie addict"

The cat is pregnant too. Id like to wear a sign that has "not my cat not my problem" written on it, but darn it the little minx's leg rubbed her way into my heart a while ago. We talked after we mysteriously lost our last cat, she just vanished. Dh was heartbroken, hes a real animal person. So we made the decision no more pets for a while...2 weeks later i went out of town, he got a cat. I told him to give the kitten back, he told me he would, i knew he wouldn't. I told him the next day, he told me he would, the next day i accepted what i knew would eventually happen, the cat would stay and i bargained for something i wanted done in our crappy reno-house. I got a door on our bedroom yay, he got to keep his boy cat. I got to name the cat, Griffen was chosen. Few months ago we worked out Griffen is a she. I was waiting for dh to get his cat fixed, Griffena did not get taken to vet due to lack of money. (stupid rainy season = no work) and what do you know shes gotten fat. I should have bargained for more than a door right.

love you all thanks for reading smooches from sassy

play kitchen - tuesday treasure

We had a couple of box's left over from christmas and so i decided to make a play kitchen for the boys. I had seen a fantastic kitchen at a friends house and the boys seemed to love playing with it, so money being tight i thought box's would be the best i could manage. I had a bit of white house paint which i think added to their appliances looking appliances. They have had this set up for 2 weeks now and they have really enjoyed it. There is a little fridge, a microwave and an oven stove combo. Next time i go to the op shop I'm going to look for some sauce pans :)

I have been "eating" a lot of cake, pizza and ice cream from this kitchen.

love sassy

as i wrote this Eli just headed over to the little microwave box and started shoving things in it, happiness is a play idea that's worked for more than a week.

moments

best colour in a vegtable goes to, beetroot!

sadly this did not encourage him to try and eat sweetpotato (orange butterfly)

purchased a child lock for the pantry today this was 1 of 6 food spreading incidents this week!

box books - Friday finds

Talking to noni this week about how we and our children love boxes and the pure joy and imagination playing with a simple cardboard box can bring we ended up talking about the books we like with boxes in them.

It's Not a Box by Antoinette Portis is a classic. (also author of it's not a stick!)



My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes written by Eve Sutton and illustrated by Lynley Dodd (hairy maclary)


Clancy and Millie and the Very Fine House written by Libby Gleeson and illustrated by Freya Blackwood



happy reading

water xylophone - thinking cap thursday

Water xylophone

Another kiss (keep it simple and short) activity

Dylan came running inside with a container full of water and was hitting it with a stick "look mum, what noise it makes!?" he exclaimed.

I was unpacking boxes from the move and was unwrapping all the glass from the kitchen.

I asked him if he would like more jars to play with and followed him outside with some.

We used our pickling jars and filled them with different amounts of water and Dylan was so excited by the different noise each one made when filled with different amounts of water. You could also add food colouring if you wanted jazz it up.

Pipi was happy to play with the lids and stones while we did this.

love noni