A new playground

I've just discovered a playground near our place, typical, the last day of the school holidays,  we always drive past the park all the time but I didn't realize there was such a big playground at the back of it.  Its brilliant for under 5s, lots of small equipment.

Sycronised Sliding!

Happy Annivesary

We celebrated 7 years of marriage the other week, Greb babysat for us, so we managed a rare night out by ourselves.

We had a sneak peck at the Cavern Quater, but decided not to go into any of the clubs, just walking around and soaking up the atmosphere was enough.  The guy in the borat mankini and the girls in the extremely short skirts (literally bum cheeks) must have been cold.

with John Lennon? outside one of the Cavern Clubs

Fun in London

I managed to escape the kids and Kev for a weekend.
Just kidding, my supportive husband agreed to look after the kids for the weekend so I could have a long weekend in London with my lovely friend Emma.  We managed to do lots of wonderful things and the weather was glorious too.  It may sound crazy but I love the smell of central London in the summer, it's so distinctive, hot and smelly, quite disgusting really but I guess it holds lots of memories for me.  My first summer in London by myself all those years ago involved a lot of walking around London and most of the time with my little trolley suitcase with me.  I experienced 37, 38 degrees heat in London that summer and it was definitely memorable.

Anyway instead of posting a load of photos, here is just one photo of a scrapbook page I did of our weekend.

Emma and I in Buckingham Palace's back garden

Dear Zoo

We went to Chester Zoo to see the animals

But most of all we loved the dinosaurs

Small Things

One of the kids favourite things to do at the moment is Ladybird spot, our garden seems to filled with them this summer.  Maddie seems to think that they have gotten lost and need to be moved somewhere else, so she is always trying to pick them up and move them around the garden, most fly away, and hopefully not too many have been harmed or killed.  It keeps them occupied though!

A Walk at the Beach with cousin Livy

Trying to get Caleb to pose with the girls didn't work

This is the typical tired Caleb pose
Pick me up!

The scooter was a good idea until we decided to go through the sand dunes on the way back  both girls decided to abandon the scooter which left me carrying Caleb on one side and on the other side the scooter over my shoulder.

I think I can see a few grey hairs in there!

Eventually I managed to get the girls to push and ride the scooter so it was just me and the boy, he through a tantrum after this too and dropped his ice cream in the sand, which then produced an even bigger tantrum.

Garden Transformation

Less than a year later

Fun at the Beach

Slugsy

We discovered a  huge slug on the steps yesterday, Caleb was initally scared of it, but Grandma convinced them both there was nothing to be scared of.

Sneaky Boy

Up to no good again

I left the gate open into the kitchen and Caleb being the sneaking boy he is made a run for it.

He thinks I can't see him trying to sneak biscuits with the cupboard doors closed on him

it wasn't me!!

Haircuts

There was no chance of Caleb sitting still while a hairdresser cut his hair, so I went to superdrug and bought some hairdressing scissors and had a go myself,  can you tell!! I had to do it while he was strapped in his high chair eating his tea.

 I had a go at Maddie's as well.

Open wider Caleb if you're going to get that torch in!

Maddie meeting the horses across the road from us

Fun at the beach

Maddie singing to herself in the corner of the garden