Things you need to worry about in a kids playground

1. THE FLAME THROWER!!!!

Well, I guess it wasn't really a flame thrower but I am allowed to exagerate, it's my blog.

Yesterday we had an outing for playgroup to a local park. We turned up and found that the council had decided that a wednesday morning was a great time to paint a new hopscotch grid on one of the paths. Makes sense to me!!!!! So, wet paint was the first problem we could forsee. Thankfully they decided to move the great big buckets of paint away so they were out of kids reach but it made the hopscotch more accessible. We had a talk to them and they said they would be about an hour (half of playgroup) the kids thought it was great watching the paint sprayer and stuff and then they needed to dry it all at the end. So out comes the flame thrower (you cant see the flames in this shot but rest assured, they are there and quite big!)

and where are our children during this rather dangerous looking exercise.... why right next to them of course...At one stage they had to wait for one layer of paint to dry a bit before they could put on the next layer, all the kids were standing watching and I asked Lion if he would like to climb on the spiderweb or have a swing or play in the sand "no thanks mummy, I would just like to watch the paint dry." and so they all stood there and watched the paint dry...

My Magpie admirer came back with a gift for me yesterday too. I'm not sure what it was but it was slimy and quite large really. Actually I think he just wanted to find somewhere quiet to eat it himself because the diggers were making too much noise in the back padock (Renata- I think they are building a new housing development).

I'm the baby!!!

It's a Little Bear day again today!!! She was feeling a little precious at first but as soon as grandma left she stopped her goody two shoes act and started bossing the big boys around!!!! She was getting tired though and needed to have a nap so I got her bottle and tried to get her off to sleep. Dragon didnt like that. He wanted the bottle, I could not convince him that he didnt need a bottle, it was Little Bear's bottle, only Babies use bottles... the only way I could see to fix it so little bear could have her bottle in peace was to dig out one of the baby bottles we had so he could ues it. He loved it. I did tell him that he had to lay down to use it like a baby. Oh how much frustration that would have saved me if he had taken a bottle when he was little. I have never had a thumb sucker or a bottle drinker but when Little Bear is here, Dragon picks up on both habits.

This very bedraggled Magpie is serenading me today. He is perched on the cubby house and is singing a song for me. It's so beautiful, and I am sure it's for me because every now and then it has a wolf whistle in it!!! I love magpies singing, even without wolf whistles for me:) He is obviously enjoying the rainy weather today!

I am not enjoying it so much, it's cold, really cold, and I am having trouble typing. Although, I am doing well, I got all 3 kids down for a nap at the same time! Draong was a bit disappointed though, usually they dont nap at the same time so Little bear uses his cot then she wakes up and he uses it. I went to take him for his nap and he seemed to really want to share the cot with little bear but she wasnt in there!!! I put her on the floor of my room because i knew her nap would overlap with dragons.