Weeding is FUN!

I have been meaning to get round to weeding our garden for quite some time now, but with it being a bit on the colder side and with so much else (thats more exciting) to do, it just wasn't on my high priorities list. But, while I was out hanging the laundry today Ashton asked me, "I dig?" I was delighted that he was asking to do a messy play activity, (since he never does) and quickly set him up with some tools and a hole to dig in and we were away!

While sitting digging with him though, the sight of weeds kept popping into vision and distracting me. While contemplating when I would actually get round to pulling them, as if on cue, Ashton jumped up and pulled some weeds from the retaining wall and put them in his mud mix!!! Fabulous! From this point on Ashton and I shuttled backwards and forwards taking turns pulling the weeds and then adding them to our mud pie mixes! He thought it was great fun and I ended up with a reasonably weed free garden while playing with my boy!

Productive Water Play

We still love to do dancing dishes on a regular basis, but for Ashton it has become more of a time for water play! He gets so fixated on pouring and filling, and as I clean a dish, he takes it for his water collection. I can now not do the dishes without him wanting to help out.

What I love most about Ashton's busy water play is, he can't help but have a little boogie while he tips and pours! Too cute!

I love this photo, you can really see how much water goes EVERYWHERE!

It's tough work cleaning or playing with dishes... got to stop for a drink!

Dancing Dishes

So, I have just been back through my photos from this year and I have soooo much that I want to Blog about... I'm having a real dilema as to whether I should backlog or whether to just start from here??? Thoughts (from the one person that reads my blog) baahahah!

Anyways, I thought I would share with you my Dancing Dishes fun! I HATE doing the dishes and I kept saying to myself, "If only I could come up with a way to make it fun!" Well, I think I have.

Ashton hates it when I'm in the kitchen doing anything, unless I'm giving him food! So, one day when the dishes were seriously out of control and I just needed to get them done, I asked Ashton if he would like to help me... I turned on some music for background noise and wahla! Dancing Dishes was born! We had soooooo much fun, dancing at the sink, singing along and making a royal mess!

Now, we love doing this so much that we have decided to make this a regular activity in our household and I have told Ashton that if we are really good at keeping the dishes done, each month we will buy a new song from iTunes to go in our Dancing Dishes playlist.

I'm hoping this will be something we continue to enjoy doing together and can slowly help us build our music collection! Whop Whop!