Monthly Archives: October 2016
Monster PJs
The little guy, practising standing and showing off his new PJs
Adam’s loop
Adam has a little loop that he likes to do on the jungle gym
Eli’s sleep over
With Grace and the rest of the family at her camp, Eli had the opportunity to spend the night with Oli and Finn. There was super excitement before the sleep over, as much excitement as Grace had for the camp, and everything went very well.
Pizza for supper
Finn & Eli riding their train together
Bath time!
Story time
Pancakes for breakfast
And 3 tired out boys the next day….this is how Finn handled it
Eli did really well. They were all sleeping by 20h00, which is pretty decent given that there were three excited boys in a room together. Eli did wake up a few times (he has been waking up dreaming quite a bit lately), but Heather sorted him out, and all was good.
Thank you Heather and Pete for having our boy over and looking after him so well so that we could all enjoy the camp with Grace! And thanks Heather for the photos 🙂
Camp
It was Grace’s class camp yesterday and we had loads of fun with everyone. I love the way the camp is organised, because it is organised by the children – they worked out the menus, organised the games, planned the schedule and worked together to create a wonderful camp. The food, which was prepared and served by the children was excellent. As parents, we just have to pitch up and have fun.
Once the tents were set up we started with some games and first up was tug-of-war.
Then “dirty rooms” where you try to get all the balls into the other teams section
After that time for a swim in the dam
Drumming circle
In Dinner time
Charades around the camp fire
Cuddles with Andrea
Smoking sticks in the morning fire
Super cuties
Letting the (willing) children queue to pump up the mattress
Coco kisses
Kisses…attempting to eat her….it’s all just semantics
Climb Adam, climb
One of Adam’s favourite activities at the moment is climbing whatever he can find to climb. All of these photos are from today. No baby was harmed in the capturing of these photos.
Let’s start by climbing up onto the couch
And then climb up the jungle gym ladder
Time to go under something
All the way up my sisters chair (which has been used to get onto the kitchen counter before)
In and out the sandpit (still struggles with this a bit, especially out)
And finish it off by climbing the small plastic chair while dad reads stories
On being put in a boxÂ
It’s fun, and that’s pretty much all there is to it.
3 like a B
Eli has been working on his number recognition at school, and even though they could see he understood the numbers through other work, getting him to recognise and name them was being a challenge, with him getting stuck at 3. One of his teachers said to him, “Look Eli, if you turn it over it looks like a B, three like a B.” He then starts again at one, “1…2…like a B!”
We actually took him for an assessment with the speech therapist to make sure there were no working memory or other issues, but according to her everything is perfectly fine, he just has word finding trouble which children typically grow out of. With that understanding in hand and a few guidelines from the speech therapist we’ve been helping him find the words and now he is getting very excited about his numbers, looking for them everywhere.
There is a 3 on the sail of one of the bath toy boats, and he picked it up and excitedly said, “3 like a B sail!”
