Camping and Incy Wincy.

This weekend we spent a night camping in the new forest, Albert's friend Millie camped too and they spent alot of time running around like crazies at a lovely place called chapel fields. They had great showers and drama when the police came to remove some rowdy lads, although having been up alot of the night I didn't think they were too bad.
I woke up to one cheeky face and one sleepy head.

We also made bouncy Incy Wincy spiders! Rowan thought they were hilarious!

Brighton.

On Wednesday we had a baby day trip to Brighton on the beach.
Albert and Rowan met there friends at the train station and we all squashed on the train with our pushchairs, 4 double pushchairs and 2 normal were pretty much the tiny trains limit. We were lucky that a very understanding disabled lady didn't mind sharing the wheelchair coach.

They were all very excited to be on the train and they were all really good. I am loving seeing how excited Albert gets by normal things like trains, it makes me look at everything again when he sees something that really excites him.
For example the best bit about Brighton the stones on the beach! The deckchair photo opportunities were pretty special too, apparently hard to sit in at all ages!

As it was a beach trip there was of course ice cream, pink flavour and the small was huge!

Also this week a very smiley Rowan and they are both obsessed with Peppa pig!

Pretty much the same concentrating on the tv face!

Blackberries

Sunday was the first day this summer/autumn we went blackberry picking. It was great.

Daddy carried Rowan and I carried the picnic which was brilliant - we had jackets straight from the oven to tea towels and in the backpack which meant when we sat down to eat them they were still warm and the fillings all melted, way nicer then a sandwich!
Although Albert had by this stage given up on putting blackberries in the bucket and was just eating them, and telling us which ones to pick. In fact it turned out Rowan likes them just as much.

Now we are weaning I like to check Rowan's poo and there were whole blackberries in there the day after.

It was lovely.

6 months!

Rowan is 6 months old today, wow that went fast!

Food!

This week Rowan has been properly eating, he is 6 months on Monday so anything goes. He had scrambled egg yesterday morning, his first eggs and they were from our friends chickens I didn't eat eggs from chickens I knew till this year so he is way ahead of us!

He loves toast and butter, in fact all bread, he also liked pancakes. So we are all clear (touch wood) on wheat. Another fave of both Albert and Rowan: melon.

Also because Albert knows I'm taking pictures whenever I get my phone out he has to have a turn so here is a breakfast cheese.

We went out for lunch today after a play in the park and a crafty fish making session at port Solent and we are know a two highchair family! Scary, rowan enjoyed portabello mushrooms and bread followed by pear and cinnamon, but was unimpressed by the goats cheese while Albert just
had the best bits from both our meals.

We played lots in the garden as normal and it is funny how when he was a baby the tent was boring now you can't get Albert out, the same with a lot of Rowan's toys.

And sleepybaby Rowan just because he may not sleep on us for much longer, it's already getting rarer, apart from at bedtime.

Party!!

This weekend we had our first scary 3rd birthday party to go to. A little boy from Albert's nursery invited him to his party and we went along. We spent the first hour trying to work out who Milo's Mummy and Daddy were before we braved talking to them! It was fun though it was at a little softplay centre and he really enjoys them. He is fast these days!

There was also the party food!! He had the fish fingers I think Adam was slightly disappointed he ate over half of them.

We also rediscovered the fantastic pea hat the campbells bought Albert for his first christmas when Rowans sunhat needed a wash.

Also joint bathtimes rock!!!!

Camp Bestival

This weekend we had our first camping trip in our new family sized tent and also Albert and Rowan's first festival. We had a brilliant time. We arrived early on the Thursday which turned out to be a good idea as a lot of the campsites were on slopes. We managed to get a nice flat bit kinda near the toilets and the fence which was good as we had alot of stuff to throw over it. We took our double pushchair so the boys could nap while we were watching bands, but we overloaded the pushchair with our stuff and it broke on the first day. This meant we took it turns carrying the 1 stone or 2 stone sleeping baby and came back feeling like we had been beaten up.
It was brilliant for children, there was a massive kids field full of circus acts, crafts mini discos and all sorts. We saw the zingzillas which Albert loved and mr tumble who was brilliant really rocking the crowd with his new single!

They had a medival theme this year and Albert and Rowan, and Albert's friend Dylan all dressed as knights.

We also used our cooking stove my lovely parents had horded for 30 years in their garage to cook some lovely one saucepan meals like risotto.

We had a brilliant time and I think I saw maybe 2 bands in-between all the exciting children's events, Adam managed to check out all the tents one night apparently there were some lovely cocktail and brandy options!
We had solar powered fairy lights for the tent which were brilliant and now living in our fruit trees.

Not the best photo.
We also got the world defender toy down from the attic this weekend, Rowan appears to be as obsessed with the sun as Albert was.