Spaceships and breadsticks

Some art this morning from the bees..

Followed by some letter practise for little bee. And some new words for big bee to learn..

I had a shower and came out to find a pirate in my lounge!! Lol! Big bee proudly told me she'd dressed him up!

Clean out the chickens.. And give them some of the salad that little bee grew for them. They loved it!

Another little space lesson..

The space theme continues, we made some space ships!

Then painted them.

Finished pieces!

Next project, making breadsticks for lunch! (For dippy eggs)

All done :-) yummy!

After tea big bee took my phone outside and snapped off about 100 photos of 'things she loves'. Daddy bee spotted her and secretly watched her coax little bee up this ladder, then pose! Made me laugh so much! Bless them!

Love this view, especially in the evening sun. Feel so lucky :-)

And back in after watering our veggies/looking after animals etc to a slice of water melon!

Happy bees!

Space afternoon

Exciting day, we have been kindly loaned an incubator from my uncle. The bees are so excited to get some more fertile eggs to put inside. Hoping to get some Friday.

We looked all over the incubator and brooder and discussed how it worked (really thoroughly). Amazing how focused big bee is when it's something she's so interested in. Wonderful to see her so passionate about something. :-)

Next step, make a count down calendar for our broody hen eggs.

This afternoon we planned a space afternoon with our friends.

I'd collected these sets from carboots. as they were all a bit different but all had a mobile to be made within I split them all up so each child had the same. Then we were left with various different rocket/science experiments.

Gorgeous outside so we did it out there in the fresh air. 

Painting our planets..

Little bees was a slightly simpler version which was perfect really as being younger obviously he doesn't have quite the same attention span.

Daddy bee arrived home and helped with one of our rocket experiments.

Our friends completed mobiles ready for the tricky task of getting them home without getting tangled!

Ours hanging proudly on the ceiling!

Looks fab and big bee is so pleased with it! :-)

Beads, birthdays and broody birds

A few piccies from the weekend..

Bead fun!

Big bee was at this for ages, completed 2 full Hama boards with no help. :-)

Word games before bed, -build a sentence!

Little bee has shown a real interest in books lately. Is lovely!

All ready for Cousin E's 2nd birthday party! Big bee testing her new dress out!

Birthday tea!

Gorgeous little squidgepot! Can't believe he's two, seems only yesterday I saw him pop into the world. Love him!

The boys really played at the party, more than ever. The age gap is starting to close. We all laughed as we found them outside, E had the hose and little bee had managed to turn it on. They looked absolutely thrilled with there mischievous teamwork! :-) 

Sunday morning poultry auction! Yay! Shopping for fertile eggs and another couple of chickens. Big bee was soooooo excited to be getting fertile eggs. I think it's going to be a long 21 days!

These are the eggs we won! (Leghorns)

And these are the chickens we won, light Sussex! 

Big bee fell in love with this Shetland pony!

Our friends joined us at the auction, they were after buying guinea pigs. They unfortunately didn't manage to win any but the children all had fun together anyway. Collecting all sorts of bits n bobs, making a campfire!

Back home and settling our new friends in..

Broody hen 'blacky' very happy with her fertile eggs to sit on!

Fabby weekend!