Awesome Day

Today has been another one of those nice hot summer days and i have to say Im loving it

We made a water pillow which kept leaking so made another to stop it leaking.  Kids loved it even Samantha who i look after.

Got some PVC and duct taped the edges had to be careful here so there were NO lumps so no leaks happened

Once that was done added blue food colouring, glitter and water

Add some foam fish to the mix and tape the end closed I also taped it to the deck

Then its ready to play on

The kids turned it into a pirate boat

Samantha just tried drinking the water

I brought some sand today for the shell pit.  The kids loved this.

The kids asked to do some painting so out came the paints and when you cant be bothered with paper and the windows need a clean put two and two together and they get to paint and I get clean windows

Then it was time to do body painting and cleaning lol

Inside for a shower and to warm up.  Then I pulled out all the education gear and the kids had fun with this, Dakota learning to spell, Lukas matching colours.

And a proud moment today was Dakota learning about mixing colours all started while painting on the windows and mixing the primany colours.  She would mix two and work out what colour it made, so I helped her.  Then 3 hours later i asked her again while videoing and I got great answers, so pleased with her

So you can see why Im proud.

Such a great day today, bring on more summer

Summer is here

Yup summer is finally arriving in New Zealand and of course christmas is on its way too 13 more days so I'm told.

We started this day off by doing the magic crystal trees the kids loved these they didnt take long to start showing crystals.  

Dakota asked if she could have a blue tree so we put a bit of colour into the bottom of her lid and when Lukas got home and saw Dakota has blue he asked for a red one.  They look great, I wasnt too sure it was going to work but it has.

Dakota had speech today the last one for the year and as a proud parent I am beaming from ear to ear as my daughter says words that can be understood.

Dakota doing her M words.

She is doing an awesome job even her speech lady is so proud of her

Since it was a nice hot day I set up the pool and slide for the kids to have some summer fun, had to take the shade off the pool cause Lukas kept hitting his head lol.  He finally has learnt to duck.

Since it was such a nice day I decided we could have a semi BBQ type dinner without using the BBQ lol

Chicken nibbles

Vege stack

Salad with lettuce from the garden

Beetroot

Was so good the kids just kept helping themselves was a nice dinner with no yelling or mucking around.

Then ice-blocks afterwards, Lukas hates smoothies and will scream if you put it in front of him so I thought I would try it as ice blocks, funny enough he loved it.  I also love the lollitups from tupperware cause they hold all the melted juices inside instead of all down the arms

Overall been an AWESOME day

Owera beach

Well today after picking up a run and a small cage for Blizzard

 No photo of the small hutch yet as i havent used it yet.  But this is the run i got almost 2 meters long.  Blizzard likes it, just gotta find a bit to cover up the gap between run and big hutch:)  So will work on that.

THEN

Claire (next door) and I with the 4 kiddies all went to the beach (owera beach)

 

Had a great day at the beach, kids had a ball. sadly Dakota lost her ears many times.

Afterwards went to Claires for a wine and dinner

And now 1.5hours after i put the kids to bed Dakota is STILL up and being naughty.  Had enough of the no listening thing

OMG so much fun

No photos of today sorry.

BUT

Today was great, went out this morning and did a little shopping getting a few supplies, then when we got home Lukas had 30mins sleep seems thats all he needed he is happy.

Well i filled the pool up for the kids and let them go for it, but you know what it got soooo hot outside and their pool has a shade over it so inside i went changed into my togs and jumped in with them.

They loved this, mummy in the pool with them lots of splashing, laughing and having great fun.

I got out and watched and we added bubbles to the pool, yay more fun.

OMG it was sooo neat, think i need to buy a sprinkler and i can run though it with them.

December is almost here

3hours and 45mins from when i start this post lol.

Summer is fully here though and im LOVING it.

The day started with the two kiddies cuddling on the couch.

SOOOO CUTE!!!!!

Started off the day with a walk to the vege shop and back again then took Dakota to Gym

She loves going to gym and today even did a beam on her own, no holding my hands, i couldn't believe it, my girl is getting so big now.  Next week is the last week for the year and Santa will be there, its a dress up day, theme is beach.  So the camera WILL be going with me as they get a certificate at the end of the session.  She can take a friend who is 2 and over, but we dont really have anyone of that age that doesn't already have something else on.

We got home and the kids played outside and had fun, we ended up putting the fence up between our houses again cause the kids wouldnt listen and kept disappearing into each others yards, so we have now put a stop to that. 

We hadnt had tv on all day so that was nice, and Dakota saw a christmas tree on the tv and said "pretty tree" so we went and got our christmas tree to put up, Dakota got very excited over it.

 So after i got the tree up, we let her put on what she wanted, she didnt like that it kept falling down and wanted the lights on so we have told her it will be done tonight and when she wakes up the lights will be on.  I wonder if this is why she went to sleep with no fight, or she was just tired lol.

After the tree it was time to go play outside well eat dinner then play.

For Lukas's party we hired 3 toys from toyhire and we have them till friday so the kids are making use out of them.

We got a rollercoaster, slide and seesaw.

 Of course we had to get videos of the rollercoaster being used.

Dakota having a turn 

Damian had to have a turn 

Lukas having a turn, then fun and games 

Yes you saw right, Blizzard is out, she has been out since Sat, she is loving it, so we have now moved her hutch to where she likes to hang out and that is under the deck.  She knows where it is so that is good.

In summer what sound to you hear the most, Mr Whippy?  yup he is up and down our street most days, so today we decided to get an ice-cream and she if they are Gluten free, what do you know they are, Dakota can have the ice-cream in a cup, with nothing else, so we put sprinkles on it for her.  This is Lukas very first ice cream too, and he did pretty well.

I looked at the time and it was 6.45pm, WOW 15mins till bedtime, so off for a bath they went then it was bedtime, Dakota was asleep before 7.30pm and Lukas 7.45pm.

So now it will be time to get the christmas sorted in this house.

This is the last post for NaBloPoMo as November is over today.  Im not joining in on the December one as i wont be able to blog everyday as i will be in OZ.

*whispers* "it is now 3hours to go till 1st December"