Machines

If I remember right I think Asher hugged me when I told him we would be learning about Machines for school time this week. Boy does that kid love machines.

One morning the boys just watched how our washing machine works and sat there for a long time as it went through the different steps in the cycle. This was fantastic to talk about machines!

Daddy also took the boys for a walk and came upon a construction site with a huge digger and bob cat. They loved watching them work and Asher mimicked with his hand how the digger scooped up the dirt. I loved seeing how happy this made him. Not happy when it was time to go though...

I opened up daddy's tool box one day and let them both just go for it. I got Asher to hammer with real nails into a milk bottle, it was so nice to see his enjoyment. He spoke very properly to his brother telling him exactly what he was doing...very cute.

We spent an afternoon outdoors in our play kitchen in the garden, the boys got busy filling pots and pans up with water and transferring dirt and water into different containers, such a busy little kitchen it was.

I set up the boys diggers one morning along with different bits of play dough and scrunched up alfoil to be as a pretend quarry. Asher liked this but I thought it would be more of a hit then it was.

I also got out daddy's spare headset and had a decent play session of airports :)

There was lots of reading as I found a couple of very factual books on diggers and tractors...each page was detailed with how each machine operated. These kind of books have always been his favourite.