lovely day

wow, after yesterday with the boys (worst day on record) today has been AWESOME. Poor Aaron has finally succumbed to the cold I had (it's been trying to get him all week) and slept most of the morning (altho that part certainly isn't awesome). Malakai woke at 6am - purely to help me with my new goal of consistently getting up then I'm sure ;) lovely little fellow

After going to the child health and development day yesterday - praise God with NO KIDS - I came home re-determined to put a better routine in place. So today I packed up all the toys that were in the boys play area and put them in the newly cleaned out linen cupboard. So now when it's 'play time' they get given ONE box of toys and that's it. When they're done with it, it gets packed up before we move onto anything else. It will hopefully teach the boys that they can't just pull all the toys out and leave that area in a big mess. It will also challenge them to work with what they've got and be imaginative - as much as they are able. It has the added benefit of making the living area look a little tidier - I'm all for that!

Josh had a great outside play time, play dough and colouring in time today. I'm so proud that he not only has an excellent pencil grip, but he bends his wrist and uses his hand when colouring rather than just his whole arm (as with scribbling). He also did really well with 'rest' time which is a miracle cause normally that's the hardest part of the day. He's just finished spending time with Daddy making vanilla/butter cookies and cutting out shapes himself. He's really looking forward to being Captain Feathersword tonight too. So a good day. So nice after yesterday!

Speaking of tonight, I'd better go and try to get my hair to cooperate! Have a great weekend everyone :)