A day trip to nana and grandad's ment a less relaxed Saturday morning. I cooked bacon and eggs for breakfast and discovered our kettle wasn't working at the last moment so fruit juice and no caffeine! We headed off to arrive about 11 am just in time for coffee and tea, yippee! The boys were both really tired so the journey there ment they got to rest even though they didn't sleep (although I have no idea how they didn't.)
Bean spent the rest of the morning colouring and Pumpkin got busy with the tractor. Daddy and Km went off to the shops to buy lunch (and a new kettle) and after feeding and changing Plum, I read some stories with Pumpkin and played with the vehicles with him. There was definitely evidence of tired children over lunch. Plum wanted to sleep but Pumpkin wanted mummy (usually a sign he would like a sleep but also seems to coincide regularly at the moment with when Plum needs me.) There was some loudness of play and aggravating each other between Bean and Pumpkin whilst eating lunch (too much for nana to bear) and daddy sat between them. This caused further tears from Pumpkin. He did calm once I returned from settling Plum but only after much dramatics. Things did settle down and the afternoon involved some watching on the I player, games on the phone, stories, photography, more vehicle games.
Bean, Plum, and mummy took Km for a tour around Whistable. A walk down the high street saw a parade of vintage cars go by as they were heading home from a nearby festival. We also looked at the independent shops, quirky buildings, got blown down the sea front, saw The Favourite, checked out nana and grandad's old house, and walked down the alley way named after grandad.
Bean found a bubble blower when we got back to nana and gandad's. We made some bubble mixture together and Pumpkin and I made a bubble blower for him from a pipe cleaner. All those years playing with young children does come in handy sometimes! As it happened K found actual mixture and Bean found some more blowers. Pumpkin insisted that he needed water in his mixture. I did try to explain to him that it wouldn't work anymore but we filed it up anyway...it worked perfectly well. Not that clever after all.
Grandad ordered a take away for daddy's birthday meal and we all enjoyed some Indian food together. Daddy opened presents from his family and ate a lovely coconut and lime cake made by bfg... Yum yum. During this meal the boys simultaneously played a game with the vehicles and two wooden figures. They created a story involving slugs and snails in the engine, robbers and burglars, getting stuck in pink goo, saved by licking dinosaurs, giving rides around a tourist route and other seemingly unrelated oddities. It was a joy and a pleasure to watch and daddy speculated whether I thought they would be future Cohen brothers. It did remind me of an article I once read by a women who had been home educated where she explained that all her and her sister had done for years was play Barbies and now they right sitcoms and plays together.
No comments:
Post a Comment