Proud mama alert
Mini Toes won the pumpkin decorating competition at school today
He came barrelling out of school with his prize and a certificate absolutely bursting to tell me.
His teacher told me his pumpkin was “creative and original”
She also said it was obvious he had done it himself and it wasn’t insta perfect ( wonders if teacher is a tattler
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(it looked like he had used every paint in his paint box then glued anything and everything remotely hallowe’en to it.)
My point is my dining room looked like someone had dropped a bomb whilst my little ones were decorating the pumpkins. I’ll be sweeping up glitter and mini spiders for weeks. There was coloured paint everywhere from fingerprints and paint brush splashes. Bits of tissue paper and bent pipe cleaners. Both boys ended up in the bath after we’d finished and I washed paint out of their hair
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Seeing Ron n Lon sat on a 2ft square mat in the orange room just amplifies how controlled their play is. In Sofas insta perfect world even messy play is confined to that stupid tray and supervised washing of toys or food.
Makes me so sad. When are they going to be allowed to be children not cash cows 🥲