Child Beale 30/07/2008

On Wednesday Grandma took us to Child Beale. It was hotter than we thought it would be but it was very nice out. We rode on the train, Lani spent a while yelling 'Oh no stuck!' after we had shut the carriage door. Kayne enjoyed the ride but was a bit upset it wasn't a very long ride.
We walked past the big lake and Lani saw the Blue-pea fowl and was saying 'Duck duck' and then looked again and said 'no; Birdy'.

We sat in the park area to have lunch but niether of them were hungry, they were too busy;

Lani with the sand:

And for the first time ever Kayne managed to get 3ft off of the ground!

We had a nice time looking in the aviaries and every time she saw an animal or bird she started yelling and squealing. She saw a goat and started saying 'baa-baa' which impressed me as i don't think she has seen a goat before. We went into the small animal shed and she was ooohing and aaahing over the baby Guinea pigs, i said 'they are Guinea pigs' and she repeated 'ginny pig'. We went to see the little monkeys (i think they were spider monkeys) i hoisted Lani up and said 'what is that, Lani', 'ohoh ahah' was her reply. I put her down she wondered off; found a branch that was 1 1/2 times her height and ran off across a green with it.

We walked some more, and came across the Roe Deer at the pinic area:

We walked under a walk way and Lani started saying 'oh no ...' 'oh no ...' and i couldn't work the last word out. We looked at the Owls and then came back under the walkway, Lani was saying the word again. Grandma heard it and said 'sky'. She had noticed that you can't see the sky under the walk way!!

We got round to the play ground and they played happily in the sand, in the cars and houses. Grandma watched Lani whilst i sat down. Lani saw a puddle: and RAN!! 'PUDDLE!!' yelled Lani and jumped in before Grandma could catch her....;

And one of Kayne;

A bit of R&R

It was so hot today!! The car thermometer rested on 28c but i'm not sure thats true.

We walked to Waitrose for milk, and Kayne gave a running math quizz the whole way there and back. He was doing addition and subtraction, with 100s, 1000s, and going into negatives. Interestingly he didn't do any in the shop. We let him chose which charity to give our coin to. He choose the Keevil Unit again.

After lunch we went to The Chase for a shady forest walk. It was really nice, Lani picked up every stick and pine cone on the way round. She led in the grass.

Kayne was ok for 2 minutes then started quizzing me on things; 'its green, shaped like a leaf and is on one of those trees, what is it?' OR; 'it's a leaf, that is green, it's like a feather, is it on the first tree, the second tree or the third tree?'

Everytime lani wandered off of the path Kayne started freaking out about it, and asking 'why is she going in the forest?' and yelling at her (and daddy) to come back).

Kayne managed to trip over again, so when the giant scratch from grandmas has almost healed we gain a grazed elbow and knee, and 30minutes of hysterics and cries of 'i want to go home and get a long sleeved top!!'

I paddled in the lake for a bit and then we continued. Showed Kayne the crickets/grasshoppers in the meadow they were so loud. I can't think of a better way to spend a Sunday. I noticed on the way back that it was the canal boat festival, but i think it was way to hot to walk round there.

Lani and the outside

Lani isn't a baby anymore... Suddenly she is saying 2-word sentences and learning things from her secret stash of baby notes(!). I will have to try working out how many words she has but it has dramatically increased since the last count of 56 on the 20/07/08. She said things like 'mumma mole' (grandma's mole), 'ball blue', 'ayne no!' (Kayne no). She was also counting objects 'uno, dos tres' she doesn't count in english, i'm not sure if she is 1:1 counting or just repeating - more likely the latter, i doubt that if i asked for 3 objects she would bring me 3, or even bring me any!!
Her personality is so strong. She does what she wants, not that they aren't /disciplined/ but she is so sure of her self that she makes me question why i'm telling her no. Her physically skills are shocking, i'm not sure if hers are advanced or if Kaynes were/are behind. Actually i think Kaynes are a bit behind; which is something i'm worrying a little about.
They have spent to whole day playing in thier sand pit at Grandma's and in water, with cups and jugs and generally having a whale of a time in the nude!! Lani also enjoyed the compost again and the dirt and the pebbles and chased a butterfly around the garden. At the park she had no qualms about running of into the bushes and being roared at, she heard a dog barking and decided she was going to look for it. She did inform us - put her hand to her ear (signing heard/listen) and yelled dog! then said bye! and ran in to the bush.
My gorgeous girl just seems full of love for life :)

Climbing

It's day 2 of the holidays. We have been to the park both yesterday and today. I'm going to try and keep this up. I think (hope) the more we go the more he will gain confidence. I've managed to get him to swing on the swing on his belly - Massive!! he HATES the swing. He is starting to climb the big rope frame thingy too I took a picture today and hope that he will get better so i can get a series of 'highest place' so he can see that he is progressing. I noticed that he seems to lack co-ordination, he can't seem to move himself to get to where he wants to, he doesn't seem to know which arm or leg to move - this is similar to him on a trike he doesn't seem to get the alternating pumping of his legs. Is it lack of practice? I don't know.
I took video of Lani going up a 'ladder' on the play frame but i've managed to take it sideways again!! For now a few pictures:

A few video's of Lani

Gosh i have bad cameraman skills!! But anyhoo...
Lani and twinkle twinkle little star...

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And then Lani pretending to be a frog and then signing/being a bird...

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It's raining July

Wow, blogging has got all serious of late.
I was just looking again at the pictures of Kaynes sports days (see below), that middle picture? WOW what is going on with his hair?! Actually both Kayne and Lani's hair is getting so long, i'm glad thier hair is a bit curly or you would be able to see that it it comes to between thier shoulder blades.
I bought a new pc game - Settlers ~ Rise of an empire. It is so much fun. I love this series of games...it lets me get out my obsessive planning side with out driving anyone crazy! I've also been working on these Griddler puzzles. Well on the triddlers anyway. They are good fun, you have to use logic like Sudoku. Good brain stretching, and strangely i've been sleeping better since i've been doing them.
Lani and I went to see Stacy and kiddies this morning. Gosh they are so cute! It was good to just chat and drink tea. Lani had good fun playing with Joshua, and i kept any broodiness away by holding Tristen. Oddly i had no desire for another baby which is unusual for me.
Kayne had a taster day today for reception so was there from 9-3:15. It was very wierd, not sure what i'm going to do with myself when he's gone all day in September. I'm trying not to think about it and think more about the things that i'm going to do with Lani, like swimming and music/dance class things that i know she will like that Kayne never did.
Kayne is gaining confidence with reading, he keeps telling me he is very good at words, or that he is a great reader. He read 'passengers' today with no hesitation. He is improving rapidly and i think i'm getting a little left behind!
Lani is still obsessed with frogs! She can spot one a mile away!! I think i'm going to get her some toy frog things...just have to find some first! I'm so tempted to set my BiUbe up again and get some aquatic frogs...though i'm not sure where we could put it.
Hopefully it isn't raining tomorrow so i can go to the library and get some new books. I ordered a set of ten Corgi Pups from 'The book people' so that should be here in the next few days.

Sports Day

Today was sports day. The rain managed to hold off just long enough for them to do all the races. i was impressed with Mr B, he know all the Y1&2 childrens names. Kayne ran 3 races and did really well - even in one when he fell over he got up and kept going with a big smile on his face.

Some pictures;

Not many great ones sadly...i have decided i want a Digital SLR like dads which takes fantastic pictures. Also Lani was not happy about having to sit in the pushchair and was also getting very upset about the noise.... particulaly the guy who was yelling as loud as he could right behind us. I had to put my hands over her ears to calm her down as i couldn't get the pushchair out of the throngs of people...