September Already!

Ethan has started preschool and he goes from 9am to 1pm and has a packed lunch. He really enjoys it and comes home very happy and cheerful. I've taken on the role of fundraiser for his preschool and am already very busy making arrangements for a coffee morning and bag 2 school event. Here are some photos recently taken. Ethan's sunflowers have finally come out. The other two as well but waiting until all three are in their glory before we take a pic.

Sept 3rd was the Kirkby Lonsdale September Fair which was a great time.

Ethan's balloon dog.

Faeries on stilts- sprinkling glitter onto his head and passing out lollipops

Ethan telling daddy he wants to go on the rides.

Ethan and Mama Zee fishing!

It's a plane..it's a train... no its Super Bath man Ethan!!!!

"Look Mommy... dinosaur book" - We love the frog slippers A-ma got him!

Lovely photos at Granny and Gramps

This was actually a while back but these photos are too wonderful not to put up on here. Sorry it took so long Gramps!

Crazy wrapping!

Well, my back has been sore a couple days so I got a bit inventive as still having a hard time with back carries and no way was I going to front carry Ethan today and this is what I came up with.

One short end, one long, crossed it over and started wrapping around Ethan. It goes over my shoulder twice and around my back and I tied it around under his butt.

Not sure what the heck it's called or if i've invented something completely new but super supportive and he fell asleep in seconds.

Ethan wants to wrap his stuffed toys.

Today was the very first time Ethan showed an interest in the wrap since I got it. He went back upstairs and dragged the wrap down - no small task as its 4.5meters long- and asked me to wrap up his monkey on the back of duck. Very cute.

All morning he has been roll playing - wet wiping his stuffed animals and putting training pants on them.

We have started potty training in earnest now and he only ever wears nappies during naptime and for the evening.

This afternoon, we went to Stay and Play at the Looking Well in Bentham and he managed to wet 4 pairs of training pants in an 1hr and half. Too much fun playing. LOL.

The washing machine and dryer are getting a workout...hee hee.

Decorating cookies!

Helen and Erin came over yesterday morning and the kids had an amazing time, painting, creating playdough sculptures and best of all decorating their digestive biscuits into masterpieces.

My masterpiece.

Helen's masterpiece

Ethan at work. Erin at work.Erin's masterpieces. Ethan eating his masterpiece.

Eating the decorations straight out of the bowl.

Eating his masterpiece.

We meant to bake sugar cookies and then ice them but the dough wasn't hard enough to roll out so after Helen and Erin left to go home for lunch and we had a bit of lunch outselves. Then Ethan was off for nap.

I got to work rolling out cookie dough and baking away , I pulled the last tray out of the oven just as Ethan was waking up. After a cookie count- we all were a bit astonished when the number of cookies came to 98!!! (Those piles are 4-5 cookies high!)

We gave Mamazee and Papazee a quick call and gave them 30 biscuits or so.

Now as Ethan has gone to bed, I was meaning to ice the cookies but I think they'll have to wait one more day.

Ethan scoffing down a nectarine.

We were impressed at how fast he ate this!

Puddle Jumping, Rock Throwing and Footie (Soccer)