One of Me, Three of You

Our growing love of rainbows is rubbing off on every member of the family - W made himself a rainbow calendar this week. My photo doesn't really do it justice but each sheet has a day of the week written on it (good practice for last week's spellings from school!) and then been coloured in and stuck together with wool and masking tape. He's been testing his brother on which colour it is every day! 

Eldest son is a conundrum at the moment. In some ways he is so grown up and in other ways I feel like he is going backwards. He is absolutely loving school and learning - we keep being surprised by how many things in the real world he can now read and he is doing lots of writing and pictures at home to take back in to share with his class. He is pretty self sufficient in many ways as well - always gets himself dressed and ready to go out the door and he can sort himself out at mealtimes. Set against this really grown up chap, we are back to lots of shouting and tears when things aren't going his way and we are battling his eczema again. When he was three and four he used to be completely against leaving the house - I have never been one for staying at home all day and once we got out he was normally fine but we used to have lots of shouting and screaming beforehand. I got into the habit of telling him we were going out well ahead of time to give him five minutes to have his ta...

I've been thinking about how to make things flow more easily between Instagram and my blog. It is quick and easy to post on Instagram so I do it more often but I suspect in future I will be less likely to go back and look at my posts. One of the reasons I started blogging was to help me remember these early years - my memory for that sort of thing is rubbish and it all blurs into one in my head - so I want to be able to look back on the things we got up to on here as well. So I'm going to start a monthly round up of our #tufftraytuesday efforts. So far this month we have had a tufftraythursday and sunday too so it's going well - I might need to bank a few over the next couple of months so I feel less bad when it all goes out the window with a tiny baby thrown into the mix! Our first #tufftraytuesday wasn't actually on the tuff tray but on our new DIY light table, taken from this post on The Imagination Tree. Our growing love of wooden toys means we don't hav...