Bet you can’t guess where we went today…
…that’s right - 5 points - S&G’s.
We were supposed to all go to the Play Festival at Southsea this year (all - that’s right - we’d even kinda pursuaded the ahem..’men’ to come parent the kids outside - even G!!!! - but only ‘cos Alex caved in so quick!!) but with S’s back which is still painful and the amount of painting that S&G have to before having the carpets are fitted on Monday, we opted for playing at home for the day. Alex & G managed most of the painting - with advice and helpful hints from Sarah & I (well you can’t just leave them to it can you????)
The rest of the day for S & I was a blur of kids playing, arguing, laughing, painting, eating, moaning, crying, pulling potatoes & carrotts and putting chrysalises into their new home to hatch. (ours are at the chunky-pillar stage - about a day or two off getting ready to hang and begin turning into chrysalises).
…so - the painting - S wants some ‘artwork’ in the new bathroom and spare room upstairs so she went along to the Grange and bought 5 canvases, I came armed with bottles of poster paint and brushes and we launched it all out in the garden with the kids for a really nice hands-on let-yourself-go painting session. The kids (and we talking ages 7, 6, 3 & 2) really got stuck in and painted some lovely (and slightly disturbing depending on your angle!) pictures. S & I had a go on one together as well, I think we all did quite well - will have to piccies and post them - I was especially proud of Natalie’s - she kinda made mistake (well, technically there shouldn’t be ‘mistakes’ in art - but at point there was some lovely colour with a huge swirl of black that just got blacker!!) until she dripped colours on top and totally saved it!).
All had BBQ as the weather kind of held out for us, kids went to sleep watching Chicken Little and adults watched some funny telly.
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