Quatro is four months old. We have moved from the time when we count his age in weeks to the time when we count in months. He is no longer a newborn. These days he is awake more and interacts with joy and intensity. Despite being the fourth child, we never tire of making him […]
Spring Things
Now that the weather is finally throwing in a few lovely days I have a list of ‘spring things’ I’d really like to do with the kids. I have no idea how we are going to squeeze these things in around everything else we have on between now and Christmas… but I’m going to try! […]
We Play… in the Sand Pit!
Spring sprang on the weekend (even if the weather around here as temporarily forgotten how to be warm and sunny) and as I crawled out of my cave, outside, into the sunshine for the first time in months, I realised what a dismal state our sand pit was in. Time for some spring sand pit […]
Castle Blocks
I made these castle blocks a long long time ago. I made them from a little boy who didn’t want to come to preschool. He was mad keen on knights and dragons and things like that, so I begged some off-cuts of wood from a local building site and cut out some basic castle shapes […]
Art for Kids – Keep it Simple Collage.
Sometimes I get carried away with ideas for fancy, elaborate, art projects. Sometimes I curse Play School for filling my children’s heads with ideas on how to create ‘a farm with real animals and grass’ out of two toilet rolls and a box of tissues. And sometimes I remember that the kids and I don’t […]
We Play – Kitchen Corner.
In the corner of our living room there is a wooden oven and wooden sink. The girls were given these beautiful handmade children’s kitchen pieces when they turned two and they have been in use ever since. Over the years we’ve added some lovely extras too… The wooden fruit and veggies, a collection of crockery […]
A Fairy Story
The Fairy Concert – by Zoe. Once apon a time, a long long time ago, in a valley, far, far away there lived some fairies. Some of the fairies were Sun Fairies and they liked to dance in the sunshine. Some of the fairies were Shadow fairies and they liked to dance under the moon […]
Babies Love Books.
All of the pickle kids adore books. Our kids have a good combination of book loving genes from both sides of the family, but I suspect their solid love of reading also has a lot to do with the fact that they’ve been read to from a very young age. The girls were given gifts […]
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