School holidays

"Mum, mum....guess what mum? We have school holidays!"
"Mum, Mum...can we please go to see the movies....please...please, please mum...mum can we go?"

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Don't worry if it does, you have the comfort of knowing every other parent in the world are experiencing the exact same phenomenon.

For us its nearly over and we have managed to go through most of in unscaithed (not counting the few cat fights amongst the boys as usual).

The holidays have been pretty much flying past, and I have discovered the kids love print outs of school work sheets to do, then recycle those sheets to make crafts.
We have been learning about plants, how a plant lives and grows.
The children and myself have been planting diferent types of trees and flowers.
Every week if they were good they got to buy a plant to the value of their pocket money each.
They then plant it with my help and have to look after the plant every day.
So far they have brought a few fruit trees, Shrubs, flowers and a passion fruit vine.
This week as part of their studies on plants they have planted vegetable seeds and flower seeds.
Every day they will tend to them to see how they grow.
Another part of this learning is to talk about diferent types of food, where that food comes from and what type of food it is.
The kids loved preparing the food as they discused were it was from, then getting to eat it the most.
I can't wait until the plants are big enough to eat.

This is the last week of school holidays and as of monday it is officially school time again.
Yeay fun...these guys are soo not going to want to go.
I hate to admit it but I'm going to miss them.

Antonio is in the process of learning to sleep in a bed.
He is doing very well so far, but I'm not overly suprised as he usually is so willing to sleep anywhere. More so when he has people around him.
He has fallen out a few times but I have learnt along time ago that you either put the mattress on the floor or you put a second one down there so when they do fall they don't hurt themselves to badly. I don't trust added barriers unless its an approved feature of the bed.
If all else fails you can always buy a trundle bed, which you will always find more than one use for.
Trundles are one of those things you can never do with out, if not for your kids then for visitors.

I'm in the middle of working on a new biz. I'm hoping all will go good.