I am becoming increasingly aware of how easy it is to just let the children watch TV when they come home from school, especially since being so exhausted after being discharged from intensive care. I have been trying to encourage the children to do other activities after school.
On Wednesday they asked to play with the washing up liquid which I agreed to, but they then took it upon themselves to raid my cupboards. My initial reaction was to be cross and tell them off, but they were so good playing together nicely that I let them carry on. I'm still finding egg shell in the bathroom!
At the time this picture was taken, I was feeling glad that they had chosen to do this in the bathroom, at least it's not on my cream carpet!
Their colourful magic potion.
I was pleased at their initiative seeing what type of things would float.
Eden managed to find my rubber gloves.
This is the part where I started to get irritated. Eggs? Eggs! Why are you wasting the eggs???!!
Meanwhile in the kitchen.....Mia used an entire bottle of mouthwash to create a potion (I was not best pleased at the waste of this fairly expensive product!!!). Although I had to admire the precision in which she executed this affair, using a jug to measure out the quantities in mls.
The hat was an essential part of the experiment! Eden used some test tubes that we got when we were in France to create his potions.
Even though I was slightly annoyed at the amount of stuff they wasted, I was impressed by their initiative and their problem solving skills; not to mention the fact that I didn't hear any arguing for at least an hour -Daddy was away with work this week and that respite was exactly what I needed. (I have no idea where Ismay found these safety goggles, although she swears she didn't I'm sure she went into Daddy's tool box in the garage which is completely out of bounds.)
Lucky mummy got to clean this!
