candyflosscloud: crafts

Hello ma lovelies and how we all this morning? Do we have a chocolate comma yet? I woke up at about 6:30am this morning thanks to my cheeky monkey. Man I miss the days when he woke up at 10am. It's much more sunnier then yesterday when it was a miserable Easter Sunday. Well weather wise the day it's self was quite fun though it felt a bit hectic at times. So what did I do for Easter then well your about to find out!

Me, Matthew and David woke up at about 7am. Which I don't mind so much as that's the minimum time I do breakfast. if he wakes up any earlier he has to wait. It's not being horrible it's to make sure he stays his in routine, or he'll just wake up earlier and earlier. Straight away I made him his tea and a lovely hot cross bun! Two infact as I wanted to make sure he was full. I'm glad I gave him two as he only left a tiny bit, such a little piggy he he.

We noticed that the table had got really cluttered again so we decided to clear it. That way I could line up all David's Easter eggs etc

The Jake and the Neverland Pirates egg is from me and Matthew. The bunny from Matthews dad and the little eggs from Matthews mum and step-dad. These were perfect to use in our Easter Egg hunt which I'll tell you more about later on.

At about 10am I got the crafts out. There was lots of card animals to make and included in the pack was googly eyes and colourful card. I had also saved some yellow tissue paper and the sweet wrappers from mine and Matthew's Quality Street egg I had won. David decided he want to try and cut and I was actually really impressed as he managed to cut some coloured paper. He also drew on the bunny and we stuck down some googly eyes. It wasn't long though until Matthews parent came round with the dogs so I had to quickly move everything out of the dogs way. They had brung round a garden storage unit which was very handy. Means I can put David's trike it in and other garden items. They also took some stuff that was in the back in my garden to the dump so all I have to get rid of now is the Asda trolleys and wash the patio. Me and Matthew were given a m&m Easter egg each and David some chocolate stars. He got given these as Matthews mum said I could just hand them out to him when he was good and I couldn't agree more.

I then gave David his first Easter Egg. I was going to give him an Easter egg after dinner but he had been so good all day that I decided to give him his egg from me and Matthew. He loved it I'm glad to say, I thought he would just be interested in the egg but he was fascinated with the bowl, spoon and cup as well, happy days! Oh I forgot to mention Matthew's parents gave David a baby pram, he absolutely loves it. He put his bag on the handle and everything.

I had to hide some of the crafts so he didn't glue everything together.

After Matthew's parents had left we went back to craft making. It's to say since we don't have enough dining chairs and no proper craft table it's because a slight chore due to David's age at the moment. As he's coming up to two his attention spam is very short and he becomes very impatient. I'm going to be buying him a craft table for Christmas, it will make things a lot more easier.

I moved it to the bigger table and he sat on my lap

After David got bored and I cleaned up a bit we moved onto making Easter biscuits. I got this pack from Asda. Basically the Easter version of the Christmas biscuit you can decorate.

ignore the tasty cupcakes in the background ha ha

For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to decorate them on the high chair...nope worst decision ever. It was more messier then doing it in the kitchen. I don't even know how that's possible. I tried showing David that the icing was like glue to stick the smartie like sweets down. He didn't really understand though. I didn't mind...until the sprinkle went everywhere oh god why! I had to quickly take a picture as David' started to eat it ha ha.

At about 3.30pm I put the lamb in the oven we got a massive leg of lamb for £12.07. Most of it is still in the fridge now! My parents came round at about 4:30pm, as my sister had work that day. I asked my brother and sister if they wanted to decorate an egg and my sister was being a spoil sort and sorted want the biscuit. She soon changed her mind though once she saw my brother Peter decorate his. Such children still ha ha it's all good fun though. During the time they were round Matthew went and got a chair from his dad's and came back with a beanbag too. It matched David's walls in his bedroom I couldn't believe it. Plus David loved it! My parents gave me and Matthew a Galaxy Minsterals egg each and David a Thomas the Tank engine breakfast set.

Here's a video of David enjoying himself on it click me

After my parents had left it wasn't long until the lamb was cooked. We had it with roast potatoes and carrots. David didn't eat the lamb which surprised me as it was so tasty! When they sell this again at Aldi I'll be sure to buy it again.

After dinner I set up the eggs for David to hunt. I did ask Matthew to do this but he said he "didn't have a clue where to hide them". He lacks imagination poor lad ha ha. I hid them around the living and dining room. Examples were in the microwave in his kitchen, easel board, on his mega blocks table, sofa and other little hiding places. At first he didn't understand but after giving him "hints" (aka pointing and going "what's that") he got the idea which impressed me, even looked under the table bless. The the cheeky monkey ate the first one he got but he did put the rest in the bag which I was pleased about. When he found them all I have him his prize. The chocolate rabbit Matthew's dad got him. It's safe to say he was happy about that!

Sorry for the rubbish quality David wouldn't sit still

So that's all our fun we had on Easter Sunday. I did forget to do the polystyrene egg craft though so I shall be doing that will David tomorrow as this week's weather is going to be awful! Watch out for my blog links this week as I'll be doing TWO parental blogs this week. Gosh aren't you folks lucky, ta-ta for now.

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Hi everyone so finally Spring is officially upon us however it doesn't men that the rain will stop sadly. There will still be plenty of Spring showers we can't have sun all the time eh? So David's now at 22 months and it's getting harder and harder to keep his attention on one thing. He is distracted very easily so even messy play doesn't keep him entertained for long. Hopefully this is just a phase which I'm pretty sure it is. So to try and help keep me sane whilst trying to entertain my son I came across this "Spring bucket list" I thought it was such a great idea! Some of the ideas are aimed more at girls/older children so I won't be doing all of them but I'm sure I will come up with my own version. So what have we been getting up to this week well let me show you.

So on Monday I decide to literally paint the windows. I placed some paper infront of David so he could paint. He didn't show much interest....that was until granddad came round. Ah the magic of grandparents where a child changes their attitude and becomes a little angel ha ha. Whilst David was painting I painted the window. I used normal poster paint as I already asked lots of people and they said it just comes out with warm soapy water yay! On Tuesday after the picture David had made dried I cut out flower shapes and blue-tac them to the stalks. Now even on a rainy day I have a lovely Spring window!

Later on that day we did some play dough he's got quite good with it but still every now and then he will go to put it in his mouth. He'll learn the more we play with it. I put this in his stocking at Christmas (I mean santa did) and this is only his third time playing with it so he'll get there. At the moment we stamp numbers as he's learning numbers at the moment. We do phonics in the bath. I've started introducing colours slowly too saying for example "where's the blue playdough" he doesn't quite understand yet but I'm not going to push him into just teach him through play how it should be done. Well that's how I feel anyway. Too many mums out there think it's a race to get their child to do this or that first but it really isn't and if you think like that well I believe your child will think like that too and it's unhealthy. Which reminds me here is quote I found on Facebook which I think says a lot.

We also had some fun with magnets. I normally have them in the easel board tray with the pens but I decided to get a baking tray and sit on the sofa with David. We put them in number order from 0 - 9 and also put them in groups of colours explaining what colour each group was. David noticed straight away and joined in with grouping them which I was very proud of. He also pointed out numbers two being his favourite of course ha ha.

From Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon David his round his fathers but this means I have him on Sunday which means family time as it's Matthew's day off yay! I decided to tick off one of the Spring Bucket list ideas and go bird watching with David. I needed to go out shopping anyway to get some crafty bits to make a mothers day present. We headed to Hanningfield reservoir it's a great place to go for nature and it doesn't cost a penny not even parking yay! I took some bread so we could feed the ducks.

A pair of greylag and Canada Geese.

The ducks were on the green near the parking as it was really windy on the lake. There were plenty of geese and we only saw two ducks which was a shame. It was still lots of fun though and I kept pointing to them saying "Look David Geese" "look David ducks" He didn't care much for talking he was far too intrigued in just looking at them. He got a bit upset though when he threw the bread and it didn't go far so the geese wouldn't eat it ha ha. We got quite close to them but not too close they seemed to be surprisingly friendly though which was good.

After we were done I headed to Chelmer Village to go to Hobby Craft to pick up a few bits whilst we were inside it chucked it down with hailstones when we came out it looked like everyone had chucked slush puppies on the floor or something. Was quite remarkable and very rare. That didn't put us off though (well Matthew maybe a little bit) and we headed to Pets at Home. We look at a few pets and David was really intrigued by these small rodents called Degu's. I am thinking now of getting him 2 females (they have to be in pairs or groups to stay happy) after his birthday but it all depends. I'd get them a tall standing cage much similar to what a bird or ferret has as they love lots of space and I can give them clean plain sticks (baking them after cleaning you also have to make sure you know what tree it's from) and give them hay for bedding and food. I've researched it a lot and talked to one of my friends about it who actually knew someone who owned some. She said I've done very good research and that I know a lot which makes me confident. That's for a different blog though hey.