Almost Halloween

This week it was Grandad Pop's birthday so Pop and Nana came to stay for a few days which was lovely, happy birthday Dad.
We are still having the odd nice day at the moment so we went to Farlington to try and the backpack carrier with Rowan. He seemed to really enjoy it.

We went Gruffalo hunting in the woods with Nana, Pop and Aunty Gemma. We found lots of chestnuts and lots of hiding places.

We spent a lot of time playing outside and doing lots of indoor Halloween things like making glittery ghosts and furry spiders, and most important lots of pumpkins.

Albert decided we also needed to paint them and while they were very colourful to start with they ended up quite sinister colours.

This ones Rowan's:

We also made some cornflakes cakes ready for the trick or treaters and found out that ninja babies shouldn't be left alone in a room with a cake bowl for even a second!!

18th October

This week it's been sunny and wet and Rowan has had a nasty tummy bug. He has just got better but now his teeth are killing him at night, which sucks as he just needs a break!!
Serious face!!

The Lego was fun, but the box that's amazing.
We have been to the farm a couple of times this week too, Albert followed the peacocks into the bushes and now he has a kitchen and all sorts in his little houses and we have to bribe
him out of the trees.

We have also done some face painting, doesn't make quite as good a print as hand painting but it's good to experiment.

We also went to Waterstones to meet the Gruffalo and have some stories, the gruffalo came and stood next to Albert which was a bit to close so we had to move to the back but he enjoyed the stories and was confused as to why the gruffalo wasnt roaring as much as he thought he should.

We also made black forest cake which Albert preferred in it's raw form like normal for out friends who had just had a baby, welcome to the world Baby Jim and we went to the beach and it was windy!!

October

Now the weather has started being like proper autumn our wellie boots are on. We go to the farm alot all year round but I like it in the autumn when it's quiet and full of puddles and leaves. There are also alot of squashes to choose from at the farm shop which are all far to pretty to not buy.
Albert is very excited at the moment when we go places and loves telling Rowan what is happening mostly in an older brother type of way, " look Rowan, we go and see the llamas now".

He seems all right about it though. Watching how excited they are around each other grow and grow is definitely the highlight at the moment.
We also went to the cinema this week properly, everyone's first proper trip to the cinema should be a Disney movie, and so Albert's is The Lion King. I wasn't sure how it would go but after an initial it's too loud, when the animals came on he loved it. He preferred the
songs to the serious and while I was worried about the scary hyena/ scar bit it's response was full on seat dancing so I needn't have worried.

We squeezed in a trip to Notts this week too and we enjoyed playing in the rain at Cordwood and bouncing on Great Grandad.

Heatwave!

This last week it has been hot! Mid 20s and no clouds at all, us Fulton's all tend to get a bit red faced in the sun so we decided to head to the splash pools.

We like to get to places as they are just opening, this turned out to be a good thing as it got really busy, we also managed to get the only half shaded spot. Albert loved it, Rowan didn't mind it - not the crazy bath splashing we have become used to but the water was a little chilly.

It was a lot if fun and we were all very wet, and had a pretty good leftovers picnic - so we took Daddy back the next day for more splashing.

Rowan has started the Fulton roar, he is exceptional at it as good as Albert if not louder at the moment.

After all that splashing we made cakes! They were yummy and from my lovely new cookbook (thanks Lou) Albert was given full decorating responsibility and it was taken totally seriously, one sprinkle at a time was applied and they were delicious!

Holiday!

We have recently got back from our holiday in France. It was lovely, we had a house in the Loire with the lovely Campbells.
Most importantly we ate far far too much as the bakery was far far too close to the house and
who can say no to croissants in the morning and cheese throughout the day!!
We visited a few chateaux,

which turned out to be excellent along with the castles they had bouncy ones, fantastic mazes
and cool little peddle cars.

We also visited the best zoo we have ever been too, it sold sugar popcorn as it small animal feed, non of the stinky grass pellets you get here. Here Albert is being attacked by giant Victoria pigeons for it.

We only took our single buggy so we spent Rowan spent alot of time in the sling which he
loves, he normal faced out but here he is obviously about to fall asleep!

We visited a mini chateau of the Loire which had complimentary fancy dress for the littles ( which went on the list of things we would do if we had an attraction) along with mini trains. They kept us all occupied far longer then the chateau.

We also spent alot of time hanging by the pool in the sun, which was def a jump in straight away and get used to the cold pool!

On the ferry home Rowen rocked at the eating wax crayon look!
Thanks to Molly for the sun glasses.

Almost as exciting as the whole holiday though is the fact that Rowan is now big enough to sit next to Albert in the trolley in a proper seat!! Albert was very excited.

Elefun.

Just before we went on holiday I got a new game for my birthday. I'm not sure who was more excited me or Albert. Anyway it's an elephant with a big plastic trunk that shoots butterfly's up into the air for you to catch in nets, it's alot of fun.

Unfortunately the nets are also just big enough for this:

Around our holiday packing we also managed to pack in a haircut and a trip to the park.

Not a lot.

The last few days we have been up to not a lot. Rowan and I have had a cold and we are slowly amassing piles of stuff to take on our holidays - of course we have way to much for the car.
There has been lots of happy sitting up, Rowan is now sitting up well enough for me to happily leave the room for a few seconds, accidents still happen it's just I'm not sure he isn't sometimes pushed!

One of their favourite things at the moment is sitting on Albert's bed and bedtime and banging his bedrail, they are also loving dancing but they are far to fast for photos!