For my readers from the rest of world one of our supermarkets New World did a promotion where you got these little shop miniatures. People went nuts for them!! We never got them all but they were so cute I couldn't resist a little shop of our own. My favourites are the eggs, peanut butter, water bottle and the little butter.

Buddy loves to have his own wee shop, easily made out of an open nappy box. It's a great way for him to learn adding and subtracting when I pay for my little minis.

His writing seems to be coming along great too, I just found that he had written this on his mini shop! I'm so impressed, it's amazing for his age. 

Then of course there is Button who just likes to search through them to find the nicest one to eat. Ha!

Simple and lots of fun, Happy Shopping

 

I Heart Painting

Valentine's day is almost upon us and Buddy wanted to make something special for Button. How cute!! So we got out a spare canvas I had in my art box, some paint, bit of paper and glitter. Keeping in the theme of valentines I cut out the word love and stuck it on lightly. 

Mix it up, pink it is.

Buddy was straight in to the paint with some hand prints, but this just made the letter stick to his hand.

So out came the paint brush.

To finish it off he added some red glitter. I hate glitter, it is exactly like sand, it gets everywhere and you are still finding it days later!

Was pleased a punch to find the heart stayed on to make this cute little masterpiece. 

A perfect valentines gift for Button and lots of fun for Buddy! 

Happy Crafting, With Love

Boo!!

Shh ... we are hiding. 

Hoopa Loop! (Hula Hoop)

Love watching them learn. "Mumma, Button is trying to Hoopa Loop!"  

I think Button likes Noodles!

My First Picture Book

Letting their imagination run wild is my favourite part of our art projects and today Buddy had a lot of fun with his. Just a few folded sheets of paper, some colouring pens and 5 scenes to draw.  

Easy! He would tell me what to write as he wanted to draw the pictures in his book all by himself. 

His first page, "hmm, what to do" he would say an then after a few minutes of deep thought he shouted "An elephant playing golf, an elephant doesn't play golf mummy"!! 

Next two umbrellas in the rain.

Three monkeys in the bath "Can't fit anymore in mum" he said, love his thinking!

Four frogs in the pond.

And finally 5 cars driving down the street, when Buddy stated "Sorry mum, they go down the road" 

So much fun and he is now off in his thinking chair (his reading chair in his room) to think of what 6-10 will be. I am looking forward to finding out.

New Year, New Adventures!

After a lovely holiday break we are back! I hope you and the kiddies had a magical time, we certainly did. Though our New Year could have started off in the worst way possible, luckily our little Button came out of an accident without a scratch and we have our fingers crossed that we haven't used up our luck for the rest of the year. 

One a brighter note, this year myself and their dad are getting married. We have a big wedding planned in Edinburgh on bonfire night, filled with music, dancing and fireworks. We can't wait but we have the rest of 2014 to fill up.

                                 via visitscotland.com

Our Buddy is going to kindy full time from Feb however I still have a lot planned for Buddy and Button this year. Buddy loves summer activities and Button is old enough now to enjoy what summer can bring (remember, it's summer here right now). Though we've had plenty of rain to dampen some of that fun, though that didn't stop up us from jumping in muddy puddles and doing lots of wet chalk paintings. 

When the sun does shine Buddy's favourite is to run through the sprinkler trying not to get wet, as you can see Button does not share this fun. 

Here's just a few adventures Buddy and Button have coming up!

We have lot's to do this new year and we hope you will join us!