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Valentine's Day Placemat

09:00

Today I have the complete honour of being featured on Red Ted Art. I wrote a guest post about a Valentine’s Day placemat that Ethan made, please have a look here:

Red Ted Art - Contact Paper Placemat

We had so much fun making this placemat, it's the perfect combination of a fun process with sticky materials and a cute placemat that we can actually use at the end!

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2 years old

Today while Daddy and Grandad were busy putting Ethan’s new climbing frame together, we found something fun to do inside! The climbing frame came in a huge box, and it was on the floor when Ethan decided it would be fun to ride his scooter over. So as he’s very interested in driving at the moment, I thought it would be fun to draw some roads and traffic lights on it for him to drive along. It’s a great way to use a massive box, and great for Ethan’s Knowledge and Understanding of the World to create his own little world and follow the rules of the road with his scooter.

After drawing the roads Ethan started making requests of what else he wanted to see on his road map. Luckily Grandma was there to step in (it’s not easy to crawl around drawing at 39 weeks pregnant) and she drew all sorts of cars, a park, a postbox, some shops, etc. Ethan had a lot of things that he wanted to see on his roads! Then of course everyone else had to have a go at adding to the drawing, including guests that came later. It’s looking like these cardboard roads may be a permanent addition to our house, Ethan absolutely loves them!

2 years old

Music Class

21:00

A lot of our classes and playgroups didn’t run over Christmas, and so today was the first chance that we had to go to Ethan’s music class since their Christmas party. It was so nice to be back there, Ethan absolutely loves it and gets so much out of it. It’s great for his Creative Development as he gets to sing, dance and play instruments.

He also gets to see his friends during the class, and when we go out for coffee afterwards. This is fantastic as he gets to run around a bit and socialise with his friends. He did something strange today though, completely out of character for him, he hurt one of his closest friends. We think he was possibly trying to get the other little boys biscuit, but as we saw them he had his arms wrapped tightly around the other boy and wasn’t letting go (even as the other boy cried). I was absolutely shocked, it’s just so unlike Ethan to behave that way. I really hope that it was a one off or a short phase, I really don’t want to have a child that hurts other children.

2 years old

Tour of the New House

22:00

Today Grandma and Grandad arrived for a visit, and Ethan was very excited to show them around our new house. He was so cute, taking them from room to room and announcing what it was. Of course the highlight of each room was which toys of his it contained! And then he excitedly showed them which toys they would be playing with and where they should sit to play with them. Absolutely adorable, but when did my little boy get so bossy?

2 years old

Another Lovely Play Date

22:06

It really is getting close to baby’s arrival, so we spent another lovely afternoon at a friends’ house for a play date. I know that things are going to change a lot after baby arrives, so we’re taking every opportunity to socialise and keep things as normal as possible for Ethan as part of his Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

He played really nicely today, so I think that he is getting used to playing with friends again. He was sharing and not bossing anyone around. He just absolutely loves playing with his friends’ toys, this little girl has a fantastic kitchen set that he just couldn't get enough of. The true test of course will be when we have our first play date here, hopefully he’ll be as good at sharing his own toys. If baby holds out, maybe we’ll try that next week.

2 years old

Exploring the Local Park

22:05

Today we decided to start exploring our local area. We are very lucky to have a park just down the road. It was a great opportunity to explore our new surroundings and to run around as part of his Physical Development.

It’s funny because Ethan had learned to recognise everywhere we were going from our old house, and I think it’s really thrown him off not knowing where we’re going. He kept asking me again and again where we were going, but then happily started to run towards the playground as soon as we got to the park. He was so happy to try out all of the different equipment, especially all of the things in the area for older children, a very rickety rope bridge was his favourite!

2 years old

Buying Furniture for the New House

22:04

We are very excited to be in our new place, as it means we have more space and can finally buy some things for Ethan that we’ve really wanted to get him. So today we went to Ikea to buy him his very own little table and chairs. Of course there was temptation to buy him a lot more than that (we literally had to drag him away from the kitchen set kicking and screaming!) but we have to be reasonable about how much space we have. He’s going to love the table and chairs though…now if we can just find the time to put them together!

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