SPLASH!

Today we went on foot to the local library. It is a good walk, especially for little legs, but M. is a good walker! I took the occasion to put her wellington boots on and let her have fun with the paddles on our way. The weather is terrible, not really an ideal day for a stroll, but ehi oh we can't always stay indoor!It is good to see how the world is when is wet!





M. had so much fun splashing with her red willies. It took us so long to arrive at the library because M. kept on stopping every two steps to look at something and asking "what's this?"; of course all things that she saw hundreds times and she knows what they are. I am wondering if instead of what she wants to say why but she doesn't know how.



At the library we sat down cosy with a few books, we read some and decided to borrow a few more to read at home. M. likes "Pippo" by Oxenbury, it is a series that tell the adventures of a toddler, Tom, and his monkey puppet "Pippo". All the books in the series are really nice to read and very realistic.
Later I went to print off some animals prints for M. to colour in.
I am thinking to make tuesday the "library day".


ANIMAL PROJECT


On sunday we watched Life on iplayer, the episode we missed on saturday. M. was impressed with a African animal which looks like a mouse and ran like a mouse. This animal was chased by a giant lizzad that wanted to eat it, but luckly the mouse managed to outrun it.
So I print out for her a mouse, a panda and a hedgehog which she had some interest in a few days ago. So bad that I forgot to print out a lizard, because when we came back home and started to colour in the mouse, she asked me to watch the mouse and the lizzard on the iplayer again. After that she started pretending to be a lizzard and she didn't finish to colour the mouse.

This is how our poster for the animals project looks like now.




THE WORLD AROUND US

Saturday we went to feed the ducks.





M. had another encounter with the squirell, but this time no accident happened, so this may help her get rid of her fears.
Later we went to the play ground. We were there just 10 minutes when the ice-cream van arrived singing its ideous tune! The children disappeared to return with a ice-cream cone each. M. wanted one as well. There was no way I could make her change her mind. I rushed to the van before it left (I dind't want a possible tantrum) and found I was 9p short...oh please just put a little less ice-cream for us. The man agreed and gave us a full ice-cream but without the chocolate flake. M. still doesn't know much about ice-cream to realize, and it made my day!