Foil, tunnel & buttons

The boy creates his own fun now by raiding the kitchen drawers...

There's a monster in the tunnel...

And we had fun playing with lots and lots of buttons...

Horses and big sticks

The weather has been beautiful so we went for a walk and saw some horses (Isaac is a little scared of them so had to be carried past them).

We found a big log which came for most of the walk with us until Daddy lost it.

Took time to smell the flowers.

Ate a few blackberries.

And then found a couple of smaller sticks to replace the log.

Isaac figured if he wasn't looking at them they weren't there...

But at a safe distance he was willing to look.

A sunny morning in the country

Well the news on the park is that it's going to be months and months before we get any play equipment back in it. It's very annoying and frustrating and means instead of going to the park every day we only go to the swings a couple of times a week as it means getting in the car.

On days like today though that can be a blessing. I've driven past a little park in one of the nearby villages several times and there's never anyone playing in it, which seems so sad. So off we went today.

It was a slow start as the boy just wanted to watch the sheep in the field next door.

They were quite keen to watch us too!

But eventually he went to explore and climb.

And boy he likes his swings!

And he's not scared to climb the highest of slides, either up the steps or up the slide itself.

We have a resident big spider on the deck at the moment. The web is so strong it feels like steel. She didn't seem to notice her neighbour.

Catching up

The boy got quite a few gifts of money for his birthday and while most of it has gone into his bank account he's also had a few gifts bought with it. One of them is a tree house. It's a Treeblocks tree house but bought from ebay. It's great as it's quite unformed and open so he can make it lots of things other than a house. The top section isn't attached so can be all sorts of things and often ends up taken off. Mostly he's been playing with the swing and pushing toys through the doorways. It's the perfect size for his Duplo animals and he's got some lovely wooden animals from Granny and Grandpa that fit well (and suit the wood much more).

It was our friend Megan's 3rd birthday last weekend and Isaac had a lovely time dressing up in her 'bling' and feeling the music (literally) through the speakers.

He also had a little play on her new bike.

Life returned to normal this week including some more measuring.

Using the washing powder measuring cups as mittens.

And sticking stickers on mummy.

Big Brother

As you'll have noticed the blog has been a little slow in the last few weeks. This is because I've been feeling very rough and spending a lot of afternoons having a long naps. The reason is because the boy will be a big brother in 6 months time. We're very happy although I don't do pregnancy well so it's hard work for all of us. We just had the 12 week scan today and there's a very lively little hiccuping bundle in there.

Dude, where's my post box

A pair of glasses of any sort is always good for a half hour or so of play!

And this afternoon we went up the road to post a letter. The post box is about 10 houses away but it still took us 20 minutes.

Spider alert! And a bit of karting.

I found the biggest spider in our downstairs sink the other day. It was a beauty!

And then yesterday for our friend Kev's birthday we went Karting. Well I say we, Matthew was the only driver from our family.

It was a great afternoon and we had so much fun watching all the races and running around (well that was mostly Isaac).

And then today Isaac worked out that he can move the big kitchen stool all by himself. Nothing is safe!