Play Day

22months 4days

Firstly, thankyou so much for the lovely comments, hearts and stars yesterday. Lots appreciated!

Today wasnt the day we'd originally planned. We were meant to go see Jumpingbean and Sweetdustybones, but it had to be cancelled, for a collection of reasons. One of them being that Katie wasn't fabulous at the end of yesterday afternoon, chicken pox is doing the rounds and thats not a good mix with babybeans. But she's totally fine today of course, although it wasnt our best night last night, flipping molars causing grief again. We woke up to absolute pouring rain beating on the windows.

We went to Montessori this morning, two cars of us took 3 families of us, so we took James & Emma, with their mum in the other car! Katie is always very excited when her friends are in the car and they all sang and danced their way there. She spent ages at Montessori playing at the sticking/gluing table. She was most interested in the glue, and at one point was doing 3 glue paintings at once, although she did do one sticking with every visible bit of paper covered in bits of collage scraps! They played in the pasta tray, all five of them for quite a while. It was a reasonably peaceful session, but coming singing time, every toddler in the room went nuts. It was like they'd all been on red bull. Twinkle twinkle was like the club remix. It was so odd.

After Montessori, we went straight to a SureStart play day at a pretty new centre. As I got children and bags out of the car, I discovered that our picnic was still exactly where I'd made it. On the kitchen worksurface! I was about to head to the shop for supplies, but all my group of mum friends decided we'd have a communal picnic anyway- to which we would contribute our tub of raisins! The play day was great. It turned nice midmorning and by the time we arrived, it was blue skies, very hot and lovely. Everything got taken outside and Katie had a lot of fun painting, doing one big picture with Leah and Emma, and a small one of her own. She loved the tunnels and tents, and played in the sand and water trays. Which started out as two separate entities. By the end, there was two trays, both containing sand-water slop. The picnic worked wonderfully, a big shared rugfull of allsorts of different things and everyone just tucked in. More playing after the picnic, lots of parachute games and some singing, before time to go home.

We made a visit to the duck pond, Katie and I, later on. Except judging by the bags hanging out the bins, the floating bread on the pond and the utterly disinterested ducks, I think half the village had done the same today. Ah well! She was very pleased to see them anyway! Since we got home, she's been eating trifle from the bowl- trying to "find it jelly" from the bottom of it.