I got up after a full nights sleep after bunny slept through (yay) and as i went into the en-suite i could see rain drops on the window, gutted!
I really thought we would have sun!
It was very dull and very wet so a trip to the park was out of the question.
I'd bought some Easter crafty stuff for monkey to do for a day like today so that was our change of plan. He's only used paint once before and that was at Center Parks painting plates, it was quite a disaster then so I'm not sure why i thought now would be any different!
A sheet went down on the floor, then i got the old table out and covered it with a plastic sheet. Monkey kept looking at me wide eyed wondering, i was telling him we will do some painting but he didn't know what i meant. The paint came out and I'd been saving my yogurt pots for this so put the paint in them, them got our Easter cut outs out ready, Monkey saw them and i wasn't being quick enough so the tears started, he can't quite communicate fully yet so as much as he is brilliant at a lot of words we are still in the mist of learning so he gets quite frustrated quickly.
All calm so i got his new apron out....he didn't like it, he quickly spun round running away from me and into the wall banging his head. More tears.
All calm again until i try again to put the apron on him, he was having none of it. More tears.
I gave up.
I then put the apron on bunny, at 18 weeks it drowned her but i needed monkey to see it wasn't going to hurt him. He still wouldn't put it on. So then i had a brain wave.
Monkey loves Postman Pat so i put an episode on and gently coaxed him into the apron, we had a few tears but everything was okay.
I then got all the paint and Monkey had fun painting, we had red, green, yellow and blue and every time he picked a colour i told him what it was and he repeated it.
He painted the Easter cutouts and the table and he did enjoy it but it only lasted 10 minutes before he had had enough. I'm not sure what to expect but i guess for now he enjoyed the painting and we actually got the apron on him.
His new word is painting. Clever Monkey
