I was devastated this morning!!  Well you all know how tikes love water don't you?  I'd taken a shower and placed my necklace on the vanity to put on when I had finished BUT it wasn't there when I went to put it on.  Following enquiries from Mr Tike I found out that the little tikes were playing with it and it dropped down the plug hole.  I'll have to not use water with the basin taps now until Mr Fixit comes home tonight and hopefully rescues it for me by undoing the pipes or whatever it takes.  I have to hand it to him, he can fix pretty much everything.

Speaking of water, I was sitting on my lounge yesterday with Miss Tike snuggled on my knee, reading her current favourite book Dippy Duck.  Dippy's favourite fun thing to do is squelching and squashing in lovely sticky, squugie, ucky mud. She LOVES that part because she loves mud too.  She and I'd need some nice rubber boots for that, like +Muck Boots.

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Mud, mud, glorious mud!

ALL kids love to splash in mud.  What a great thing to do if you're lucky enough to have some lovely gooey mud outside.  Dare I say, bribe them by saying something like 'Let's pack up then we can put our boots on and go outside and jump up and down in the mud!'  I can pretty much guarantee you that you could get your little tike to do any little jobs you want done for that reward.

What little tike wouldn't LOVE to make a mud pie?

Bubbles

Again speaking of water, another little reward that I had on hand with my little tike was a bubble wand.  I bought mine from +Target for only $1.00 and I'll probably get 3 goes with the bubble liquid.  Then I might be  frugal and make my own bubble liquid and just fill up the bubble wand when it's low.  Then again I might just be lazy, after all I only need to spend $1 and just buy another one from +Target to have on hand when my young tike needs a fill-in activity.