Festive fun

We have gone festive crazy this month, we had our tree up on the 1st mostly because we had to get advent calendars down from the attic too.
We have our Christmas jumpers and Albert and Rowan have gone light and paper chain mad throughout the house.
We have had Albert's nativity and he was an angel all covered in tinsel and he rocked his songs. - three kings riding through the dusty dessert they have travelled far!
We have a massive turkey waiting and a 100 Brussels on order at the green grocers, a week of school parties to come and we are almost there!!!

First football lesson!

Well at least he will grow into it!

Science week!

It's science week at school so for children in need they have to dress as a scientist.
It is obviously in the genes.

School quotes.

"The school toilets are cooler then our toilets at home, they are black all over."

"The lady says we have to eat sandwiches or rolls first, in fact I should probably have rolls tomorrow. Most people have rolls"

"That was not a roll it was not swirly enough"

"I forgot to ask anyone their name but some girl told me hers anyway - even though I didn't ask"

"Do you want to see me do a star jump"

Also PE related they have to pretend to be a whole range of beans from beans on toast to chilly runner beans! Crazy!

" give it, give it" apparently when people aren't sharing.

Finally " Is Miss. Peck nice?" " She's nice, she isn't a zombie or anything" ????

First day at school!

Oh my where did the time go. Albert started school today, which is crazy!
He loves having a uniform and his new school shoes, he is very excited about having a PE kit and a packed lunch. It is all very grown up, and I coped way worse at the drop of this morning - he rocked it!
Proud mummy.

Summer

Unbelievably Albert starts school next week, which will be way more traumatic for me then him I'm sure. Hopefully he will love it and will make friends quickly. I'm mostly sad someone else will get to have fun hanging out with him as he is totally awesome and I want to!
We had a visit today his peg has an alligator on it - he is over the moon.
We have had a busy and fantastic summer this year it's been hot almost every day and we have done loads.
I thought I would put a few pictures up and make sure I enjoy the last two days before everything changes.

"How cool is that"

Rowan pretty much sums it up!!
Our allotment is full of them - snake hooks all round for Christmas.

Donkey rides

This weekend we went to Staunton festival - pox and all.
I have been trying to get Albert on a donkey for ever and first time round he totally wasn't going for it. Mostly I think because it was next to pond dipping and Daddy, Pop and Deadly 60 have been nature brainwashing him! We passed it again though and he totally went for it - he got the slowest donkey they had ( probably a good thing) and had a great time.
Once Rowan saw him having fun he wanted a go to and when the man said he looked just exactly like a cowboy his day was absolutely made!
It was a great festival day out lots of crafts and rides just right for a morning out while Adam recovered from the lawn bowl stag do hangover.

Holiday

We just got back from a fantastic holiday with the Campbell's. It was brilliant. We flew to Portugal and rented a house near Coimbra which was lovely and had pregnant pigs next door and lizards in the garden - what more do toddlers need. Maybe a small pool.

It was hot, so we spent a lot of time at river beaches and using nets to catch water snakes and fish which Albert quickly became obsessed with.

We also found a shady little zoo with cute baby boar and baby lynx and a crazy mini portugal place with tiny houses and dodgy entertainers. The shop also had hundreds of toy animals - thanks for the spending money Nana and Pop.

Checking out the wolves - hoooooooooooooooooooooowl!

Everyone was so friendly and loved the kids they were totally spoilt everywhere we went - although I think Eve's strawberry sweets went mysteriously missing hmmmm.

Amazing two weeks - miss the Campbells now though.

Pond dipping!

A couple of weeks ago we went pond dipping at queen Elizabeth park. It was great, Rowan sort of fell in but Gem Gem pulled him out so no harm done. We caught a million tadpoles and someone lent us a fish which Albert managed to get stupidly attached to in the 30 seconds we had him.
They do love pond dipping!!!

Spinnaker tower

The other week we decided to brave the spinnaker tower. It was really good fun.
Albert loved the see through floor and ran back and forth over it, pressing his face up against it.
Rowan a little more hesitant but we walked it once together. They also have a little cafe on the 2nd floor - good ice cream and pop.
Also not too bad a view!