A morning spent playing...

Yesterday I minded my niece's little boy Maximo, while she attended a training session for her job. Together we did some craft...

First, I helped Max make his crown...

Like all little people, Max loves stickers so I had made sure we had a supply! :-)

We went for a walk down the street to a building site as Max loves 'diggers'. It had been raining so no one was working on the site that morning...

So we didn't have to dodge trucks etc, coming and going from the site...

The excavator was a relatively small machine but still pretty terrific to a 2 year old.

When we walked back home, it was time for morning tea...Max regularly told me during the morning that he was hungry! Lol

Then we played with the play dough...this seemed to be the most favourite activity of the morning.

I had bought a pack of play dough 'utensils' from Riot, but the 'pusher' required a Herculean effort to push dough through the holes...so I got out my garlic press and it worked much better, squeezing out 'sketti'! ( my girls had always played with the garlic press when they were little)

Max loves my exercise bike...

But no matter how he tried, his feet didn't touch the pedals! 

The box of Teddies came out for a while too...

And it wasn't long before my niece arrived to collect Max...where had the morning gone; it had passed so quickly?

Helping out...

My niece was faced with a dilemma...a new job which required attendance at a training course on a day when her younger child was not in Day Care. Luckily I was able to help out, and so it was that Maximo arrived at our place early this morning. What fun we had!

My collection of teddies, mostly bought on our travels, were 'let out of' the plastic crate that they 'live' in, and Max had a lovely time chatting and playing with them.

I had also borrowed some toys from my neighbour's grandson...and these were very popular, especially the Buzz Lightyear that talked, and a tool set...

We did some craft too, but I forgot to take photos of Maximo's pictures.

But I had a wonderful helper getting ready for morning tea...he used the cutter to make the scones...

Max watched the scones cook and marveled at how they got bigger!

We then invited DH to come and join us for morning tea...

Now Eduardo always hides when little people visit but Max never gives up hope that he will get to pat my elusive feline. Eddie always comes for a pat and ear tickle whenever DH or I hang out washing and Max called out 'Puss, Puss, Puss' but Eduardo was having none of it and ran away into the shrubs and wouldn't budge!

We had story time with books borrowed from the Council Library...

We went for a walk up the street to the former dairy farm where the owner fattens  a few head of cattle...and this is 7km from the centre of Brisbane! Maximo loved it and the walk to and from...

We watched a little TV too...

Max was fascinated with my crocheting and even had a try at doing some too...

At 5pm, Max's big sister Lucy and their mum came to collect him...he was a tired little man...but then again, I was a tired great aunt!!