Slip sliding away ...

Wouldn't ya know it - we'd finally got around to putting warm clothes on and locking up the house for an afternoon trip to the playground ... we'd even made dinner so that, when we got back, the cold and hungry children wouldn't be a nightmare - and it rains. Not just a misty oh-well-we'll-just-get-a-bit-wet kind of rain, but the pouring down not-a-snowball's-chance-of-going-to-the-playground kind of rain. Who's ever turned and told expectant, excited 4- and 2-year-olds that their trip to the playground is off? Yeah. Not usually pretty. I had to think, and I had to think fast. Thankfully, I have about 10 years of running holiday programmes and camps up my sleeve ... I dug around in the dusty recesses of my brain-files ... and instructions for an indoor obstacle course were located. I stood in the garage with my mind whirling ... and saw it ... the trestle table. Pictures will tell the rest of the story. Suffice to say, that sometimes the best times with kids are those you don't plan.

The kids weren't the only things sliding down!
Oh me, oh my OSH would have had a field day. No sides on the slide, no barriers, no bark. And look, to prove them right, Leah 'broke her foot'. "My foot Bwoke mum-mum!" I'm a truly fabulous mother ... I took a photo.
Then, to ramp it up a bit we turned the lights off and put some glo-sticks on!! The only thing missing was the disco ball!
Then the tricks started.
Oh yeah, and we had some other stuff to do as well. They just got done once. Nowhere near as exciting as a slide in the living room!

The new beds

The lovely new white wooden twin (or bunk) beds arrived on Sunday. But first, Leah's new 'Bananas in Pyjamas' duvet cover arrived. She immediately grabbed the pillow case, put it on like a sleeping bag and announced "night night I sleeping!"
Ruby got an attack of 'anything you can do, I can do better'Then on Sunday the new beds arrived. The foam mattress is supposed to be a landing pad for the inevitable fall-out episode, but it appears to be a good size for sitting too!
Check it out, Mum! I can climb in all by myself!!! Anything "I can do myself" is a good thing in Leah's world right now.
In bed with the new duvet!
Ruby's side - laughing hysterically cos Mummy pretended to fart to get a smile for the camera ... it works!
A case of "I'm not getting my photo taken"
Unless you take a photo of my feet while I'm hiding!! Only a few minutes prior she'd been on the floor and looked up with an expression of glee "HEY our new beds are good hiding places!!!"
The new quiet spot, with books galore and a bean bag. Their eyes lit up when they saw that little haven.
Ruby's laughing because Leah's just shoved her off the bean bag and taken her place. Very ... ahem ... assertive! Lucky Ruby's got a good sense of humour!!