In October we started Science club. Since I am playing catch up with these posts I’ll just include all the detail here. I have been involved in the organising, I usually host one of the experiment stations. We did miss a week as we were sick with gastro and so needed to avoid social settings. We […]
Tag: Trains
Playdates – the good, the bad and the ugly!
Since it’s the school holidays and scienceworks was crazy, we’re doing a lot of staying at home. We had some HS friends over on Tuesday so that I could discuss some plans with the mum about her new science club and she wanted me to be involved. Alex was being very difficult and not particularly […]
Books, birds and transformers
After getting some library books, Alex asked me to read one to him. He would ask me if I’d read the page and would repeat my last few words whilst pointing to them in the book. I hear him whispering to himself alot – playing with words and working out sounds when he associates the […]
More home time!
Play dough, noughts and crosses, garden play, mini foosball, Wild Kratts, Transformers, Avengers…. these are all featuring in our lives on a daily basis! Alex was asked by Soke what his best day would be. He told me at night when it was just us. Alex’s response was to train with his Dad (football). I […]
Paper planes, I spy and more trains!
Alex has had lots of interest in planes, including paper planes and has been asking Vio to make him ‘the eagle’. I’ve also borrowed a book from the library with instructions on how to make different designs. He’s not so keen on making them himself, but I’ve tried a few and it’s been quite fun. […]
A movie, the aquarium and miniature trains
The start of the week saw us visiting the cinema. We watched ‘Inside Out’. Alex had asked to go, else it’s not something I would have chosen to do. It was very expensive and Daniel sleeps through them anyway. The movie started off with a great idea, but I got pretty bored of it as […]
Bird watching, playing and a puppet show
As part of the Junior Rangers program we headed to Serendip Sanctuary for the “beaks and feet” program about bird watching. I had not known about this place before, and it’s about 45mins away. We found the park fascinating and definitely want to return and do some of the waks ourselves. Binoculars are on the ‘to […]
Questions and self-learning
Since Alex was moving up to the next level at swimming, the timing meant he would go almost 2 weeks without a lesson. So I took him to the local pool along with Daniel. We bought Daniel a floaty jacket as this pool is much deeper than our usual swimming destination. At first, this bothered […]
Random fun, socialising and lava snakes
In my last post i mentioned not having schedules, and for the most part that’s true. The exception is of course in meeting others for play or organised activities such as the many sports Alex does (swimming, karate, ju-jitsu, gymnastics and football). So we often find ourselves the last ones at the park in the […]
Daniel’s talking! Hanging at home.
So, Daniel is saying some more words. The really important ones – mine, no, up, more. He’s been really effective at communicating otherwise. I’m expecting his language to really explode as he turns 2. It’ll hopefully help the kids play together more successfully! They do have some really good moments, but of course Alex isn’t patient enough to […]