Toy Box / Bench Seat

Last week we got to go to Brandon's first open evening at Seymour House Nursery. The good news is he has settled very well doing five days a week without his brother around and has now started making his own friends instead of just hanging around Joshua and Joshua's friends. His key worker commented on how good his numbers and sounds are, although his letters are currently better than his numbers (the opposite to Joshua who appears more numerical at this early stage).

 

We also had to attend a book club evening at Joshua's school last week. The purpose of this was to get a briefing on the homework and the books that he is starting to bring home. To start with they foundation class are given picture books, however I do not think it will be long before Joshua is bringing home basic reading books as he can already ready all letters and is starting to ready 2 and 3 letter words.

 

As with most parents we are facing an immanent dilemma about where to put all the toys that children receive from birthdays and Christmas. Our house already resembles a Toys R Us store and is no longer the pristine show home it was pre-children. So this weekends project was to build a new toy box and to free up some space in the conservatory. So with a stack load of wood and a load of power tools I set to work to make the ultimate toy box / bench seat in our conservatory. Its not perfect by my standards, but given that I designed and built the whole thing myself then I think its pretty damned good. I have hardly any skin left on my hands, however we now have plenty of toy storage for the boys. A few finishing touches left to trim some edges, buy or make some cushions and add some nice safe sprung hinges etc.

 

The ultimate bench seat / toy box.

In between spending close to 20 hours building the new bench seat / toy box we also headed up to Norfolk today to see my Auntie Chris for her 60th birthday. We had a great day out and as always it was good for Joshua and Brandon to see their 3rd cousin Leyla.

Brandon, Leyla and Joshua (Joshua ruining this picture with a silly grin).

Brandon and Leyla (Brandon ruining this picture by waving a balloon around).

So another mad weekend out of the way and I am ready to go back to work for a good rest ready for the next one. Next on the agenda is my dinner date with Joshua at his school this Thursday lunchtime. It will be my first school dinner in about 24 years (how will they have improved).