Living Arrows 2020 25/52

Welcome to Living Arrows 2020! This is the third year I have taken part in this linky and I love taking part each week! If you haven't heard of the linky before, This was set up by Donna at What the Redhead Said and the name comes from the poem by Kahlil Gibran "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth" 

 Each week I share one photograph of James and one of Freddie and share what they have been up to during the previous week.

So the lockdown situation is starting to lift a bit in the UK. Non essential shops have reopened. Not that we are going to any! The only places mummy and daddy are going is Tesco, Aldi and occasionally Poundland!

We have had some more lovely weather so we have tried to take the boys out for walks on an evening when it has cooled down at bit as its been far too hot during the day to take them out!

[AD] Review of Robot Workshop by Ojo

Back at Christmas 2019, we received a brilliant coding game for James called "Which Way!" it was based on the Cbeebies programme Messy goes to Okido, James absolutely loved it and even now six months since he still plays with it often.

When Ojo contacted us and asked if James would like to try out another one of their games of our choosing I was thrilled. Ojo specialise in STEM and learning games. So even though they are really fun to play James is also learning something while he's playing!

The object of the game is to get from start to finish. When you roll the dice you move the number of spaces, but if you land on a mission card you have to complete the mission to move the rest of your spaces. If you fail the mission you have stay where you are and let the other players take their turns. 

 When you land on the mission card, you have to follow the instructions on the card and build the robot to meet the specification. Every player is given a core card at the start which is the robot's body, as you can see in the picture to the right, the core card on this robot was orange. From the instructions on the card you then have to choose a head, an arm and some legs. You then check the pictures in the back of the instruction book which contains pictures of all the robots for each mission. 

If you get the design right you can finish your turn. If you get it wrong, it passes to the next player who rolls the dice and moves their spaces. If they land on a mission card then the whole process is done again, build the robot, and check the design.

This game has been absolutely fantastic for James. He has had so much fun playing it. This is one of those games that can be passed down to Freddie as at the moment he is slightly under the lowest age limit for playing.

We will definitely keep on playing this game with James and I think it is something that I could actually borrow from him and take into a Beavers session! 

With James having a birthday in a couple of months time I am definitely going to be going to look for more Ojo games for him!

You can buy the games direct from Ojo or you can buy them on Amazon!

**We were sent this game free of charge in exchange for this review. All words and pictures are our own!**

The Siblings Project 2020 - June

Oh boy we are late with the post this month! Time has just got away with us being on lockdown and not going out of the house very much! This months pictures were taken when we were taking part in the Virtually Marra camp over the May bank holiday weekend.

With only weeks until the school summer holidays, I am hoping the weather improves a bit more so we can get the boys out and about for walks to burn off some energy!

Living Arrows 2020 Week 24/52

Welcome to Living Arrows 2020! This is the third year I have taken part in this linky and I love taking part each week! If you haven't heard of the linky before, This was set up by Donna at What the Redhead Said and the name comes from the poem by Kahlil Gibran "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth" 

 Each week I share one photograph of James and one of Freddie and share what they have been up to during the previous week.

So the lockdown has been slightly lifted and non essential shops have been allowed to reopen! Yeah I'm still not taking the boys out. We are staying home as much as we can. Mummy is only leaving the shops once a week and thats to go to Tesco for extra supplies!

James has been working very hard on another badge for Beavers which is now almost complete! Freddie has been just a little tinker and very naughty! I think the whole no nursery and not seeing any of his little friends is really starting to get to him!

Living Arrows 2020 Week 23/52

Welcome to Living Arrows 2020! This is the third year I have taken part in this linky and I love taking part each week! If you haven't heard of the linky before, This was set up by Donna at What the Redhead Said and the name comes from the poem by Kahlil Gibran "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth"

Each week I share one photograph of James and one of Freddie and share what they have been up to during the previous week.

This week well the same as every other week we have stayed in. James had his online Beavers meeting where mummy had the pride in announcing that James has gained his chief scouts bronze award! He has worked so hard over the last two years towards this!

Freddie has just been his normal crazy self. He is really starting to miss his friends at nursery now. Even though the government has given the ok for nursery to go back, our school hasn't made a final decision yet. 

Living Arrows 2020 Week 22/52

Welcome to Living Arrows 2020! This is the third year I have taken part in this linky and I love taking part each week! If you haven't heard of the linky before, This was set up by Donna at What the Redhead Said and the name comes from the poem by Kahlil Gibran "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth"

Each week I share one photograph of James and one of Freddie and share what they have been up to during the previous week.

So it's lockdown week erm 11? I literally have no idea how long it has been. All I know is we've not seen my parents since 16th March and that's the longest time the kids have never seen them! 

This week was technically the school half term week. We should have started the weekend by visiting Carnival Marra with Beavers, but we obviously did it virtually.

Most of the week James has spent in his pj's lol! He was quite difficult this week as normally we would have been staying with Nana and Gaga for the week. The last time the boys stayed there was February!

We did get James's out for one walk, we waited till daddy had finished work and then we all went together! 

This weeks pictures are well James doing hiss selfie with Maddie and Greg. And. As for Freddie well this is how we found him the other night in his bed!