Noah's Party

What a lovely day we have had today! Our friend Noah had his 3rd birthday in his grandad's woods and i think it was the best party i have ever been to. "Right up my street" as Ian said.

Once we had found the privatly owned woods we were met by Anna (noah's mum) in a truck to take us up to the site in the back of it! In the back of a truck - how cool - Emily and the other children loved it - deliberatly banging their heads as we bumped along!

We were then free to explore! They had made a tightrope between two trees to climb across...

Emily loved this! especially as it bounces up and down! Lucy loved it too!

There was a campsite with a bell tent and wood burner! A hand made bench for us all to sit on. And of course a campfire

There was a great swing from one of the trees. A tyre but made in a way i had never seen. Very high as some of the adults tried!

There was some delicious home made food for the children and the adults and a gorgeous owl cake!

Happy birthday Noah!!!

After lunch we all sat around the campfire to sing songs with Anna's dad playing the guitar. The children had cut up logs to bash together along with the beat.

Then all of the children were given a gorgeous wooden guitar!! Hand made by Anna's dad! they are great and Emily loves hers! so does Noah! We had a treasure hunt in the woods, followed a compass and found the treasure buried in the ground. Beautifuly sewn canvas bags with a wood pencil and note pad!

All in All a very memorable simple day that must have taken ages to organise but we loved it!

Happy birthday Noah!!!

I'm Famous!!!

I posted a few weeks ago about the fact that i had been asked to be on the reader panel for my beloved Green Parent magazine and well, here i am!!!

I was lucky enough to test (and keep!!) some really lovely products. The raw chocolate really was great - i love chotolate! and the eye cream and baby bath products were fab too. Organic of course!
I do love this magazine! available in some whsmiths and waitroses as well as subscription on www.thegreenparent.co.uk . Happy reading

Tuesday's treasures - clay animals

These little characters have joined our family this week. They came from a lovely craft stall at the hop festival. Lucy obviously espacially loves the "Ducks" Emily prefers the hedgehog and my secret favourite is the mouse. Because they are so small they are really robust so i can see them being a regular play - i hope so!

Mama Made Monday

This week i will be mostly making Damson Jam!!

Hop weekend

This weeked was the hop festival in town. A fabulous celebration of all things kent including morris dancing, beautiful craft stalls and of course hops and their produce!!! iykwim!!

I love this weekend. Since having the girls i tend to go down early to have a really good look through the craft and produce stalls. It gets so busy later on in the day it is hard to get a buggy about and we live just that little bit too far away to expect Emily to walk all the way.

So we went down early Saturday and Sunday and it was great.

Emily loved the tap dancing people!

Shire horses pulling a cart!

A quick ride on a lady bug!

We had time to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and a nice cup of tea.

And some cake of course!

The hop festival has loads of great memories for me. A bit more restrained in the last few years. There is some great music on different stages at different pubs and venues but it is not really that child friendly and i did not have the energy for it (another sign of age!) Ian of course went out and got wasted on saturday!!

boobs for babes and tits for tots!!

A fab new breastfeeding awareness campaign needs your help. Some lovely ladies from The Green Parent magazine forum have started this campaign and they are doing well ut need all the money and support they can get. They are launching a calendar to raise the profile of breastfeeding mamas and help support mums.

Rachael and Claire have support from some big names too like Ella's kitchen, Lactivist and Sainsbury's. I cant wait to buy my copy of the calendar! Well done Ladies!

Please visit their website and donate.
http://www.boobsforbabes.com/

"Our mission is to raise the profile of breastfeeding both in the UK and internationally, lending support to those who wish to start breastfeeding, continue under difficult circumstances and educate those who have never considered it as an option. We will be promoting this with our first ever calendar of breastfeeding mamas and their little ones which will be available from our online shop ready for the New Year."


 

Back to school

The lack of posting recently is mainly centred around the fact i have been preparing myself and the girls for me going back to school. After a tiring 3 day (an extra day for me for staff dev) we are looking forward to settling back to a few days of just us!

School was great! I do love where i work. everyone is so hard working, always trying to do the best for the children in their care. My new class are lovely. Think i am going to be really lucky this year. They are very sweet and seem keen to learn so roll on this year!

I have also been busy making a couple of things for my new class.

Our topic at the moment is teeth and healthy eating but in a few weeks we will also be looking at weather and i could not resist making this tactile weather map for them to play with. good old velcro! obviously Lion class is my new classes name.

my girls have faired well this week and despite them being away from me for longer that normal, they have done really well. The day is longer for them too and Lucy is now having tea at the childminders house. I know she will be well looked after its just that it is MY job to feed my babies.This bit i fear i may never get used to.

So how was your return to school?