Silent Sunday

Out the house

It's been one of those weeks. I'm back at work part time so early afternoons at the beginning of the week are now rare with the wee man. I also left hubby in Italy for the week which means I am on my own which is not so much scary as non surprisingly quite tiring. The weather has been against us too so my days off this week meant taking the wee man to bookbug, the local library and swimming. All great stimulating activities which gets my wee man out of the house. We were missing something though, fresh air. It's Friday, the rain is unrelenting but as I seem to do these days I forge on and eventually it gives us a break and only meant we were maybe a little late for dinner. So it was the usual park, the usual activities but it works for our inner "country kid".

  

An impromptu weekend with the Nonni....

Worms and Snails that's what this little boy is made of

 

This weekend we took an impromptu trip to Italy for the long weekend. It's always great for the wee man to get to spend time with his Nonni. It was lovely and warm and we spent lots of time outside in the garden. The wee man was at long last introduced to bugs and creepy crawlies. I was very proud of how eager he was to touch and feel everything unlike his rather squemish mother! The only hard part was to convince him not to bring them home. Other than a few pokes to the snail neither animal was hurt during this experience :) I on the other hand unfortunately have to admit that quite a few ants were maybe sqooshed.

  

Homemade Playdoh

This was admittedly a very on the huff organised activity. It started relatively simply by me having to make pizza dough for dinner. Before I knew it wee man was rolling his sleeves up (literally) to get his hands stuck in to "help" mummy out. So I decided to check out how easy it was to make home made play doh. Unfortunately to me it's actually very easy! There was a no cook version: 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup salt and 1/2 cup water then some food colouring to brighten things up. Unfortunately I only had yellow but I ran with it. Making the dough is all part of the fun and we were a mess before we even started. So much for me thinking this would be a relatively clean messy play idea! I found some cookie cutters (admittedly of the Christmas variety) and off we went. It was a lot of fun just pushing the cutters into the dough and not really worrying about making shapes. The best bits seemed to be squishing your fingers in and then flicking the dough off so it ended up everywhere! (must add more flour next time!). As usual it was all about process instead of end result as the only thing I have to show for my hard work is messy trousers and some play doh stored in a tight container for next time!

Inspired by the lovely Mammasaurus and the Creative Project.

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