Mummy's Birthday

Mummy's birthday is always full of spookiness. The children woke on Saturday morning to find Uncle John & Auntie Laura sleeping in the lounge!! We managed a short trip to the secondary school on Saturday to see a model railway exhibition which the children thoroughly enjoyed, the Adult opinions are a little different. Sunday Katharine woke to birthday cards, presents and a treasure hunt to find the remaining of her gifts. Over lunchtime we went for a wet windy walk around Nothe Fort, we met the usual Nothe Fort residents, plus managed to stop for a hot brew, with the usual spillages!

Top of the windy turret At the end of the pier.

That old game of who can get soaked the most! of course Oliver won as usual.

Break Time! cup of tea always makes the rain go away!! ... apparently!

1....2....3.......GO!!

Nope I am not playing that game!

Feeding the residents.

I don think they are aware of personal space!

Im sure I could make money from a squirrel circus!

Sorry Bethany we cannot take him home!

more strange residents.

Funny kind of snails!

DiggerLand

As all the children's birthdays seem to come close together we decided to treat them to a special day out to 'Diggerland' courtesy of Tesco's clubcard vouchers. Thankfully the weather held out, so even though we dressed for mud & mess we managed to stay fairy clean. The children loved the whole day, mainly because they could drive and destroy most things.

Oliver took charge of the first ride

Daddy and Jacob hot on Oliver's tale.

Bethany taking her first driving lesson, Jacob wants out its safer!

Oliver & mummy operating a real digger!!!

Bethany destroying the ground. Its amazing what you can achieve in a couple of minutes, she is a born natural!

Rebecca learning the controls.

Bethany digging for treasure! While this was going on I took Oliver, Jacob & Rebecca to have a go on the mini land rovers race track. Oliver went round no problem, Jacob went round really well with only one crash, Rebecca managed to crash 4 times, cut off sections of the course and make her own track ! It was hilarious, I explained to the women next to me that she wants to drive like her mummy!...... she succeeded.

All aboard the digger carousel

In the army diggers quick we are being attacked!!

Jacob & Rebecca 4th Birthday

Apologies for no recent blog, our trusted camera decided one day it did not want to work anymore! so after taking it apart and finding the problem then wondering how I was going to put it back together again, I managed to stop it working completely. So we have resorted to using web camera for footage of Jacob & Rebecca's birthday. The day started with the usual dark morning followed by lightning fast tiny patter of Rebecca's feet, then Bethany's then Oliver's, Jacob decided he needed a lie in, so we waited 15 minutes before enticing Jacob in to the bedroom to open his presents. After the walk to school we took them to town to buy some new shoes and then to the Granby Fun Factory where we energy levels were drained!

Later party tea consisted of every sugary food possible.