Party.

Albert was 4 and we decided to have a little party at home as it would be easier - ha! It was very exciting though. He loves superheroes and so do his friends so we had a superhero fancy dress party. They all have loads of costumes and Albert decided to come as Iron Man (thank you Aunty Gem Gem) and Rowan was the Hulk ( appropriate).

It was very exciting setting up the house. We had superhero balloons and batman water, bunting, a giant superman and spiderman and loads of party games to play.

This is giant spiderman who came for breakfast and then hung around in the hall generally getting hit by anyone that walked past. 

We played musical stop on the bad guy, pin the bat on the batman and of course pass the parcel. Great fun until you have had your go then you lose interest - to be fair our mature 5 year old party guest had it sorted and stayed focused to the end knowing the best prize was the last one, a worthy winner.

We also had a pinata which was cool - it took ages and 4 adults to break into it and by that point all the non chewy sweets were powder on our lawn. They loved hitting it though - sticks, fists total annihilation of donkey Dr Doom.

After the chaos of party games the rest of the party was just fun there was even a bit of pond dipping thrown in and a cake.

Check out the booze ruining the pic thats how you know its a kids party!

Slack.

Which is what I am - but I am still recovering from the epic celebrations that go with being 4.
Also can't figure out how to put photos inbetween writing so am just going with a few phone photos so I don't forget what we have been up to lately.

Goggles!

We bought googles the other day as daddy has them and they think its cool?
We have a pool (sort of) when we go away later in the year so they have them for that. I've been stepping up the swimming to whenever we have a willing extra adult around to be splashed mercilessly in the pool. They are both swimming the little pool with floats, and rowan is just dangerous with his throwing himself in - ready or not! Anyway the googles are worn whenever water is involved!

We've been rocking the various local soft plays to. Albert has always loved them but this year he is tall enough and brave enough to do it all - dressed as Cap Cap he is super fast on the slide too!

They are thick as thieves also - the bars have to come of soon, far to much climbing going on.

March!

Right I've been really slack at writing anything recently. I need to upload photos and I'm lazy in the evenings but I will get on it.
Lots has happened - Rowan is 2 which is crazy. I've started working in Abingdon which is a bit of a drive and fewer days at work which has taken some getting used to - but we are getting there!

Our spring has been mostly cold - not to cold for superman but to cold for daddies. Rowan had a scooter for his birthday so he is practicing getting to fast for me to catch him!

Rowan got zoo passes for his birthday so we have been up a few times to see the tigers - they hide every time we go!
I have a new phone so I'm trying this on that - we'll see if it works!

Christmas

Bit late this post - but here we are anyway!!

Christmas here was brilliant! We had a full house and we all loved it. Lots of people = lots of fun it would and it would appear lots of presents (not that that is important - unless you are 3).

 

 



Thank you to everyone who made it excellent and special.

 

 

Snow!!

 

Its genetic or something the ability to see snow and throw it in a ball form - instictive almost.

It snowed this week, this is rare in Portsmouth and quite possibly the most exciting thing to happen since, well christmas!

 

 

 

We dragged Albert and Rowan to Tesco on the sledge in a blizzard as we were too excited to stay in (and Adam had a conference call at 10am) and then we built a snowman. Rowan is hugging it and Albert is just about to eat snow - again. We couldn't stop him - he had blue lips and had to be dragged inside at one point just to stop him!

 

We then went to the only hill in Portsmouth (next to the monster burger van) and it was awesome!

 

 

 

Also happy birthday to Adam - we tried to get his eyebrows ;)

 



 

 

 



 

 



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.