Bank holiday

The end of the bank holiday weekend...
We didn't do alot this weekend. Saturday we went to Grandma's, Kayne practised on his bike, he is getting better at peddling it - but he is a long way off having his stablisers off. He comments on every child on a 2 wheel bike he sees.They both had fun at the park.
Sunday we went to Reading. We went to Hobby Craft. I bought some colouring books for myself. I love colouring in, i find it relaxing. I like when you've finished something and it looks good. We bought Kayne some Hama beads. We got some glow in the dark ones for when we decorate thier room. Kayne chose a UFO mobile. He had a good go at it but he struggled with the size of the beads. I've noticed more and more this holiday that he seems to have trouble with fine-motor. We also found some great adult puzzles so we bought 2 for us. We bought Kayne a 300 piece Horrible Histories' castle puzzle, Kayne and I have been doing it together. After we went into Toys'R'Us, Kayne, Mark and I oogled the Lego. we let Lani pick something and she wanted some 'Littlest Petshop' frogs (surprise surprise!). We noted that Schleich do knights and things - we are mentally doing some xmas shopping.
Today we nipped to town because i wanted to get some colouring pencils and water colour pencils. The kids played in the park on the way back. Lani insisting on going really high and fast in the swing. Kayne managed to traverse the cargo net bridge without falling in.
This evening Mark has gone to Ninjutsu/Taijutsu again. I hope he isn't as battered when he comes back as he was last week. But if he likes it then thats ok with me.
I think we have decided to go to the Saturday of the NAGC weekend - i just need to find our check book. We have also been putting together some ideas about how to organise the flat.

Our week...

Last Tuesday we had a nice but wet day at Cotswold Wildlife park. Kayne enjoyed looking at all the Reptiles finding out what they eat etc. Lani liked the penguins - she tried climbing over the wall. She also enjoyed the puddles.

The rest of the week we didn't do too much; got Lani some milk, went to the park. Kayne played 'knights' most of the week. We all read lots of board books. We watched some Olympics, Kayne has been trying to watch the boxing, and i won't let him which makes him want to watch it more.

The weekend whizzed by again, we went to Mum's and Sunday we had a lazy day.

On Monday Kayne, Lani and I sorted out all the toys and tidied up. We switched toys around they played trains most of the day. Kayne and I drew and read some stories.
On Tuesday we met Hannah and Sophie at the library, Kayne spoke so much! I was shocked. He had lots of fun and on the way home announced that 'Max, Ruby and Sophie are my best friends'. I enjoyed thier yogurt pot 'play'. He has spent the past few days pretending to call Hannah and arranging to meet them again.
On Wednesday we went to Tesco's, and Next. Tesco's for arty things and Next for some clothes for Lani, she grows so much we had to buy some clothes in 2-3 yr size! At grandmas we did some drawing, Kayne made a felt puppet, and the painted. Although in general more paint went on them than the paper. Kayne made him self a gorgeous shade of blue. It was interesting - i've noticed that he gets worried and then gets upset about things like glue, paint, water mud, sand but then once it's on him he abandons himself to it. The only thing it doesn't seem to work for is swimming but maybe i will take him soon and see if this new confidence will help out in this area.

On Thursday we met a friend i haven't seen for a long time. It was nice to talk and catch up. I watched the rhythm gymnastics which i love. Kayne said again that he wants to do gymnastics so i'm definatly going to find him a class to try.

A nice day.

We went tot he park again this morning. They both had a good time, Lani on the swing, Kayne using his stop watch to time himself running across the park.

Whilst Lani was napping, Kayne saw an advert for 'The Sword and the stone', he said 'thats about King Arthur can we buy it?'. Then he switched the T.V off (!) and put his play sword in the sofa and put his foot up for leverage and pulled it out saying 'I'm the King!'

This evening i took him to Tae-kwon-do for a trial session. He really enjoyed it. He is the youngest one, but also the smallest one by atleast a head! He wants to go next week but also mentioned gymnastics.I'm not sure if i will enroll him yet, he has one more free session but i think i'll see about a trail of gymnastics somewhere. I also want him to do some swimming lesson, but i don't want to over load him.

Cotswold Wildlife Park

We went to Costwold Wildlife Park today, in the rain. We had fun even though we got soaked. Kayne decided he liked the train ride the best. He enjoyed the Reptile house alot particually the Rhinoceros Iguana and the insects. I think that we may go to a butterfly farm as he is raving about butterflies at the moment. Lani really loved the penguins, rabbits and cockrels. She shocked me with a few new signs i didn't know she knew, rabbit, pig and chicken (eg flapping her arms), i think she has been watching Something Special with out me!

Lani also enjoyed all the puddles. She did a few things that made grandma and I shocked;
I said 'Lani, do you want to take the frog home?' and she said 'no'. Which doesn't sound like much but she hasn't ever answered a yes/no question correctly before.
She also kept looking at the shelves in the shop and saying 'spider, spider!' and we couldn't work out what she meant. In the end grandma bought her the big soft tree frog. In the car on the way home she was holding the frog, looking at it's feet, and said 'hand, spider'. I think to her the frogs feet looked like spiders.

Fairy boy

So we are all better. Lani still has the streaming nose she had before we went to the beach. My nose is sore but not streamy and i can sleep because Mark is no longer snoring. I think it is safe to say we are not the true original hardy Brit's we once were. No more rainy day trips to the beach, well maybe. Everything is getting back to some semblance of what we call normal...which isn't really.


We went to town to put Lani prescription in, Then we went to the library, some of the way he was telling me a story about a mini monkey and a mini mummy - i wish i could have recorded it. Then we saw my cousin and i chatted with him for a few minutes. Kayne worships Jamie. It's kinda cute, he was telling J about Mario Kart.


We carried on and when we got to a bit where the paths split he would stand there and start singing the song about going to work from Me too!

'...is it up or is it down? Which ones a smile which one is a frown?'

...Well, mummy?

Up

..That's right!

(mummy should remember her tone of voice more often)

Every time he did this an old lady was walling past and commented to him 'that's a nice song', 'oh your very smart'.

In the library Lani did the same thing she does every time - yell, squeal and run amok, though she did look a book for 30seconds. We got the stickers that show Kayne has completed the Team Read - he is delighted with his Mr Stretch. We found some math books, with word problems and fun stuff in, and some stories.

We went to the public toilets and as i was helping Kayne, i hear a tiny voice hum/sing Twinkle twinkle little star. Lani really has a good memory for tunes.

In Woolies i looked for a magnifying glass for them both, so they can look at/fry ants, to no avail. In that back corner of WW there are the educational toys. Kayne was looking at a shape matching-lotto type game.

Come on Kayne time to go

ok mummy, anyway this game is too easy for a boy like me...

uh -ok.

Confident or conceited?

Yesterday we were using stencils and he says 'i'll tell you what they are...Square, circle, rectangle, diamond, crescent, star and triangle'......I did not know he know the shape 'crescent'. We made cakes too.

Anyway we had lunch in Woolies and then we bought two boxes of dressing up stuff, (*sigh*) one for 'girls' and one for 'boys' - why can't boys be fairies or girls police women? Anyway - we got it home (somehow) and Kayne dressed up whilst Lani napped;

He is so pretty. He quite likes fairies, he often sees the Rainbow fairy books and asks for them. He just wouldn't understand them yet.

Colds!!

Ha!! Our spontanious 'True Brit' day out leaves both Mark and I with a cold. It's August and we have colds, what is going on with the weather right now? That will teach us...

A windy day at the beach...

We went to Hayling Island today. It was windy and drizzly and great fun.

We went into a little cafe for some warm drinks and Lani was naming a few colours. Kayne points to the pepper pot and says 'look manky white'.