Kids Grow Wild!

Gracie loves the outdoors so when she received her very own gardening kit from Moneysupermarket.com she was over the moon and couldn't wait to get outside.

 

Unfortunately our back garden is still unusable as its awaiting a makeover so we decided we would take the opportunity to do some work on the front garden. We already have a patch of soil underneath our kitchen window which is the perfect place to do some planting. Gracie loved playing in the soil and digging a hole ready for her seeds, once she had done that she sprinkled her seeds into the soil before watering them (her favourite part!) 

 

 

Gracie was so happy in the garden and it was difficult trying to get her back inside as she kept asking for 'more water' and 'bag'. I don't doubt that she will get lots of use and enjoyment from her gardening kit in the future.

 

 This post is an entry for BritMums’ #KidsGrowWild Challenge with Moneysupermarket.com

 

 

 

 

 

Hoops and Crosses Lunch Box

Like most mummys I find that lunch time with a toddler can become quite repetitive, that's why when I learnt that Walkers and Tots100 had teamed up to find creative lunch box ideas I was keen to join in with the challenge!

 

This is our entry into the Tots100 #hoopsandcrosses competition.

 

 

I decided that instead of your 'ordinary' sandwich I would make Gracie some 'Mini Sandwich Kebabs'. I placed mini sandwiches, pieces of sandwich meat, cucumber, tomatoes and of course some hoops and crosses onto a skewer and rested them on a bed of lettuce. I then put the rest of the hoops and crosses into a small bowl along with some of Gracie's other favourite foods.

 

I think she was impressed as when I showed her the lunch box there was a lot of 'WOW's' and 'Mmmm's' to be heard!

 

 

Needless to say there wasn't much left at the end of lunch time :)

 

 

Weekend in the Sun

After the past few days I was starting to wonder if we would be getting any nice weather at all this spring. Friday I worked from home - it was so dark outside and all I could hear was the rain on our conservatory roof and the wind filtering through the chimney breast and it was cold, so so cold, in the end I was sat with a cardi, slipper socks, a blanket and the heating on full! so imagine my delight when I woke up on Saturday morning to the sun blaring through my window. We spent the morning trying to decide what to do, we hadn't made any definite plans with the weather being so unpredictable but then the hubster received a text inviting us to a BBQ - perfect!

We headed off with our sun cream, sun hat and sun glasses :) and the toddler finally got to wear one of the new outfits that she got for her birthday.

We were able to enjoy the sun late into the day and I particularly enjoyed this view something we don't seem to see often anymore!

Gracie loved the BBQ food and especially loved spending time in the garden. (Our garden is currently undergoing a makeover so we don't get to go out in it at the moment!)

 

 

All in all it was a fairly quiet bank holiday weekend but sometimes they are the best kind :)

 

How did you spend the bank holiday weekend, I hope the weather was lovely where you are!

 

  

Outside Fun... Indoors.

So as you will all know the weather hasn't been too good over this past week which means other than a quick trip into town on Saturday afternoon we haven't really done much.

Luckily we bought the toddler a gardening kit for her birthday which included some seeds, compost, small plant pots, a pair of gardening gloves and a watering can, so earlier in the week we did a spot of potting and within a couple of days and after some TLC from Gracie we noticed some of the plants were starting to sprout.

 

 

 

Today we added to our collection as I bought some tomato plants and strawberry plants, as a result our kitchen window sill looks like this...

 

 

 

 

At the moment we are currently doing a garden makeover and I'm thinking about having a small patch specifically for Gracie where she can do her own gardening as she really enjoys watering the plants and generally getting dirty :)

 

How have you been entertaining the children in this recent wet and windy weather?

 



 

Toddler fun on Valentine's Day

So here it is again, 14th February... Valentine's Day!

 

Now not that we are miserable or anything but the hubster and I haven't really gone for the whole valentine's thing this year, I think since our wedding anniversary was three weeks ago and Christmas was just before that we our all card and gifted out! Never the less I thought it would be lovely to have some toddler fun and so Gracie and I did some painting yesterday :) Gracie loves paints and to be honest I was pleasantly surprised with how co operative she was, although it did take us two attempts ;) so here is the our 'master piece' complete with very questionable love hearts! I should add that I can not take credit for this idea as I got it from a friend.

 

 

 

Seems as though the hubster is at work this evening, I made the girl and me some valentine's pizza - ok, so its just ordinary pizza cut out into a questionable heart shape (whether its paint or pizza I still can not master the art of hearts!) but still Gracie appeared impressed giving me an 'Oh WOW' as I placed the plate in front of her, so that's good enough for me!

 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!



 

24 Days Of Christmas...

First of December is finally here - yippeee. As I have previously mentioned in my blog I have decided that this year I will make my daughter an activity advent calendar. This is something I have been working on for a few weeks now and I have been searching the internet for fun, christmassy activities and also looking locally at what events are on and finally I have come up with our 24 activities. My daughter's godmother made her a gorgeous advent calendar last year that she will keep forever, so I have popped little slips of paper with a different activity on in each pocket. Mummy guilt did get the better of me tho and I have also put a chocolate coin in there too! Anyway here is the finalised list of activities - Happy December everyone!! xxx

 

1. Decorate the Christmas tree
2. Village Christmas light parade
3. Go on a magical winter wonderland holiday
4. Write a letter to Santa
5. Visit Santa and his reindeer
6. Make a salt dough santa decoration
7. Make Grandma and Grandad a Christmas card
8. Visit a Christmas market
9. Decorate a lonely tree
10. Visit the Brown's Christmas craft fair
11. Deliver Christmas cards to all your nursery friends
12. Bake Christmas cookies
13. Go to the Chirstmas concert at the village church
14. Turn playroom in Santa's grotto
15. Watch the brass band play
16. Take part in the Yuletide treasure trail
17. Make a food hamper to donate to the food bank
18. Receive a very special video message
19. Make a ginger bread house
20. Go and look at the Christmas lights
21. Christmas movie night
22. Village Christmas family disco
23. Bake mince pies for Santa
24. Track Santa on Norad and enjoy your cosy box!

 

 

 

Breakfast Lollipops

So this morning I decided to make my daughter something a little different for her breakfast and I made her these yummy breakfast lollipops. Its an idea I can not take credit for as I picked it up from Pinterest but still I thought I would share.

They are simple to make, all you need is one banana, two lollipop sticks, some yogurt and your favourite cereals!

Just cut the banana in half, insert the lollipop sticks into each half, dip in the yogurt and roll in the cereals. You can freeze them overnight if you want, however I found that by doing that it made the lollipops abit too hard and cold for little teeth so we just prepared them ready to eat - enjoy :)

The original post and other lollipop treats can be found here.