We didn’t have a very nice weekend. We’d planned to sort out the spare room and the cupboard under the stairs, and if the weather was nice, take the kids to the park. Other than shuffling a few boxes about, we did none of these. By late Sunday afternoon. the kids hadn’t had their usual nap, we’d all had at least one temper tantrum each and were all a bit tense.
Suddenly, Alex climbed onto Graham’s lap, and started singing ‘Row the Boat’. Before we knew it, we were all singing every nursery rhyme we could think of – ‘Row the Boat’, ‘Ring o’ Roses’ and ‘Wind the Bobbin Up’ being the current favourites.
Harrison then gave us a performance of the ‘sit down’ song they sing at school, before demanding we play his new favourite game – air guitars.
This game consists of Harrison going around every person in the room and giving them an air guitar. We then have to wait for him to go and turn on the ‘moosic’ before we play our guitars. When he turns off the ‘moosic’, he then comes around and collects up all the guitars, before repeating the process again. This keeps him amused for ages!!
They were such ordinary and simple things to do, but those mad few minutes of singing and dancing chilled us all out and made things right again!
Awww this was such a cute post. It’s it amazing how a tiny little window of craziness helps make everything better!
Love the ordinary stuff; it’s what life is made up of and should celebrated like this more often!
Love the video! We all have a bit of a tantrum at times. I’m glad Alex was able to start off all the fun to brighten your weekend. There is always next weekend to do the things you planned.
I love singing with my children too…such good therapy!
moments like these make you forget all those awful ear piercing headache giving screams and tantrums heart warming post hope you have a better weekend this week x
That’s so sweet, I love moments like that, spontaneous singing is so good for the soul! x
Isn’t it funny how some of the worst days can be rescued by something so simple? Glad you all had a good afternoon in the end.
What a fab post, sometimes we just have a day off and dont go out we have lots of fun with the kids.
lovely post – and those little moments are the best
Ah its moments like this that make it all worthwhile isnt it – lovely post!
Such a lovely way of spending time with children.
Kids… can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em. Seriously though, I credit my kids for making me more than I thought I could be; moments like these remind us how lucky we truly are.
Our weekends seem to be full of arguments and tantrums and it is these little moments that make those disappear isn’t it. Hope this weekend is full of more fun and laughter x
Awww such cute pictures, I love how little ones have the ability of turning a crappy day into a better one 🙂 x
Aw what a cute post this is, memories to cherish x
Singing is the way forward. It rescues me from most tears tantrums. I even have songs for most activities from nappy change to bath time!
Singing seems to cure most grumps and arguments in our house – even though I’m not so tuneful – and they love to hear daddy play guitar too 🙂
Now that is a video to re-play over and over!
Ah, you can always rely on the kids to make everything right again, and it’s often just little things, isn’t it? Lovely x
Ah this is lovely and you are right, sometimes you just need an ordinary moment to realise that you can turn the day around and be smiley again. Our weekends or days go like this sometimes. x
Awww how sweet. I love sitting down and singing all the nursery rhymes 🙂 #mummymonday
Thats so lovely! Just as you were at your wits end you were whisked away to nursery rhyme land. Can just imagine it now! A moment of madness can always make things better! Glad things turned around for you.
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Jaxon is too small at the moment but I’m excited to see what his imagination has in store for us as he grows up. So far we’re at the “toys being exciting” stage. Chris and Jaxon were in Toys R Us on Sunday while I grabbed a drink from another shop. They’d been looking at the toys while they were in there and Chris had got him a new toy (he decided that Jaxon doesn’t have enough noisy toys!) Well Jaxon was getting very possessive and scrunched up his face like he was going to cry when Chris tried to pay for the new toy and when I tried to take it out of the packaging when we got to the car we nearly had a full on tantrum (well that is if six month olds can have a tantrum lol) #mummymonday