Day 347 - Adventures with wee ones

This week has been a strange one. Some sad news for me, but also some miraculous rain. After 7 months without it, the sky finally opened up, and how excited we all were about it. Since we survive on tank water only, we are well aware of water conservation and just a couple of weeks ago needed to get some water trucked into our property to fill our tanks. The rain brought with it a beautiful sound on our tin roof, the smell of the damp Aussie bush, and best of all, muddy puddles to splash in.

Here's some of the fun we've been up to.

Aidan and I decided to make this little house and garden for the fairies and woodland folk who live up the back of our property. You can spot them if you look carefully enough.

The 2 little boys and I went to Melbourne yesterday to visit my Nan who is unfortunately quite ill in hospital. While we were there it seemed a sin not to visit an op shop, and Aidan chose these adorable bubba cino (espresso) cups which we got for $4. How cute are they? He does love his cinos.

This inspired me to create a home corner in the lounge room for a bit, with old sheets, pillow cases, ribbons and lace, boxes etc. It was a definite hit!

I had a box with some lace and ribbons to play with and I just love what Juliet did with it.

Day 297 - Random kids crafty

Having some fun crafting with the kids today. We used a fair bit of food colouring for Juliet's party a few weeks ago so we started off doing some play with the little bit remaining in the food dye tubes onto some old tea towels and fabric scraps.

Then we put a little bit of food dye with water into a spray bottle (old spray detangler bottle) and used stencils to make some pictures.

Nice and relaxing and fun too. We all need some quiet activities amongst the chaos sometimes.

Day 107 - Fruit Ninja

It's absolutely freezing in our part of the world at the moment, so this may not have been the most appropriate activity, but it sure was a lot of fun. Afterwards we had a nice hot bath to warm up.

If you like the game fruit ninja then give this a go.

Fill some water balloons and hang them up with some string. Get your sword out and swing away. The kids absolutely loved it. We'll definitely be doing it again.