When the sun shows itself after days of miserable rain, it’s best to take full advantage. Regardless if there’s any heat in it or not!
Boys decided to get the water flowing…
Making a river down the side of the garden path…
…and then watch the river flow
It wouldn’t be complete without playing in it
And skidding down the muddy path…
When you try & drink directly from the pouring tap…
…it very rarely ends well
Despite a rather rocky start to our holiday today (read whinging & tantrums GALORE!!!) We did eventually save the day with water…granted it did take until 3pm to get to this point!
Once again our morning was filled with water. Although the boys usually have swimming classes on a Wednesday,I decided snotty noses & grumpy kids just don’t gel together with swimming. So we improvised. Painting ice cubes in the sun!
As Master 3 claimed the paint, Master(Almost) 2 was left with another improvisation piece…
Not that he minded, he was having a ball squirting the bubbles everywhere (it was empty of shampoo, just the dregs left clinging to the inside). Including his brother!
And then Master (Almost) 2 got hold of the paint…
Chasing bubbles was fun…until Mum got light-headed from all the blowing!(And the bubbles didn’t come out in the photos!You’ll just have to trust me that that’s what he is doing here)
Who can resist when they ask to bake. By “they” I mean Master 3. He is always asking to “make cake” but luckily he doesn’t seem to mind as long as he gets to help. As tomorrow is grocery shopping day you can imagine the cupboards are a little on the lean side. But some mixed nuts were hiding out behind a few canned beans so I whizzed those up into nut butter, added coconut,chocolate hail & sprinkles & popped them in the oven for 10min. They were a hit!
Making Mum a “cake” while waiting for the cookies to be done.
Both my boys are water babies through & through. Anything to do with water & I can distract from even the worst tantrums. It is not uncommon in our house to be in the bath at 4pm…”witching” hour!Or even “helping” mum “cook”…Although this usually ends up with me having twice as much to do, what with wiping up the floor,inside the cupboards etc etc But I can guarantee PEACE while I’m trying to make dinner!
Master 3 is always asking to get up to the sink to play so this morning, to take advantage of the sun, I thought I’d attempt a “water wall”. These have been making an appearance on a number of blogs I read so I was inspired.
Fridays are usually our “stay at home & attempt the week’s housework” day, by which I mean I attempt to tidy/clean & the boys follow behind me making more of a mess than was already there! This “water wall” was going to be my saving grace & allow me to get LOADS done…or so I thought!
Firstly, raiding the garage for supplies turned out to be a disappointment…no funnels/pipes/containers or anything usable (Hubby is a plumber for goodness sake!!You’d except great things from this wouldn’t you!?) But I did find the world’s largest stash of zip-ties! I went scratching around in the “greenhouse” & came up with a few plant buckets, you know the ones, they have holes in the bottom for water to drain. I sacrificed some of my kitchen funnels & we had enough to make some fun!
Not 30 seconds after I managed to sneak inside the screaming started, turns out Master (Almost) 2 had decided it would be more fun to dump water on his brother’s head & then run like hell! Needless to say this didn’t go down too well! I managed to distract Master (Almost) 2 with another bucket filled with soapy water & a sponge for him to wash his bike. Guess who wanted to do that too?So it turned into a washing of bikes game. Until I added some warm water…
He jumped in before I even realised his intentions! Although he did get out for me to put him in his togs…
Master 3 now has the cleanest bike in town!This kept them busy for about an hour!Of course I couldn’t do the housework after Master (Almost) 2 decided to climb in, what with supervising & everything, NOT that I needed much of an excuse to bump it to the bottom of my list. So a coffee was totally the thing to do at the time.
It did get rather chilly though so we ended up wrapped up warm, watching Sharks Tale & having an early lunch. A perfect morning….especially since minimal housework got done!
And yes, Master 3 chose his own outfit this morning…
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