Little trains

Rowan loves trains, Albert likes them very much to so we went to the little Lakeside steam train on one of my Fridays.

 

 

We got the little train to the park and took a picnic it was very exciting and a little nippy. Albert decided we should go 2nd class not 1st class he was very sure about not going in a little carriage.

 

 

We found a wicked picnic spot.

 

 

 

Then we got our little train back through the tunnel which Rowan clapped at (it was a very long tunnel) and Albert did scary screaming all the way through it. It was a lot of fun.

 



 







December 1st.

Today is December 1st and that means we are officially allowed to feel christmasy!!!
We had our first day on the advent calander which resulted in a Lego Thor and a Playmobil pirate and chocolate.
As Albert said "Jack Frost has been" so we headed out for a wintery walk which mostly involved jumping in iced over puddles and smashing as many ice blocks as is possible.

 

 



We also made paper chains - which Adam is very methodical about!

 

 

Check him out in the background.

We also put our tree up as we are far to excited not too! The boys were really brilliant at it and we have a tiny patch quite near the bottom that is very very festive.

 

 

 

Aunty Gem Gem helped which meant we got a festive curry from the takeaway - nice.

 



 





Giraffe's

We inherited these little giraffes from my Grandad's desks. I remember them living there always so they are at least as old as me.
Rowan loves them and has taken them under his wing.

 

 

They do like to pop up in unexpected locations it is very lovely.

 



Wet day

We had a really really wet Friday so after much nagging from Albert I let him help me make the Lego X-men.

 

Putting Magneto's helmet on. Albert plays with little Lego at nursery but not yet at home as Rowan is so tiny but he loved it and he was very good and putting the bits together.

 

 

He also had a pretty good don't help me I can do it tantrum going on. This is the finished helicopter he did well.

 

 

But lets face it its all about the mini figures!

 

 

We also did some lovely painting, which was excellent until Albert showed Rowan how to make brown - advance colour mixing skills there!

 

 

We also practised walking on the moon and I think you will find this is exactly what it looks like!

 

 

 



 



 







New accidentally short hair

Hes rocking it though!

 

 

 

 

Sherwood

The other weekend we went up to Nottingham to see Nana and Pop, they had just got back of holiday, Rowan and I were ill and pathetic and they were lovely - thank you and sorry!
Albert is into bow and arrow folk at the moment so we went up to see the Major Oak.

 

Albert manhandled a pumpkin that Mum and Dad had got from Mike.

 

 

He also helped Nana do some baking in his own special way - here he is helping test the sugar. Very important role apparently.

 

 

The boy next door also lent him a big boy bike. It has slightly flat tyres but hey that just means it goes slower and that is alright with Albert at the moment.

 







Holiday

We have been away on our holiday's with the lovely Campbells to France. We had a great time and all came back a little bit tanned which is cool.
We had a lot of ferry trouble and had to get the long one over which turned out to be fine in the end. I thought maybe even better then the vom inducing fast cat.

 

We stayed in a big house surrounded by farm animals and much to Rowan's excitment there was a lot of tractors. We went to a couple of zoos which were awesome. There was a little one with snakes, birds and totoises.

 

 

 

 

Thats our rainy day! The other zoo had this:

 



 

We had lots of sun too and a lovely little lake beach by us which was nice. Although all the French folk wearing their jumpers must have thought our swimsuit clad toddlers were a little strange.

 

 

 

There were also lots of lovely countryside,

 

 

 

and frenchness!

 

We had a lovely lovely time.