A new dawn

No photos today!

Today's adventures saw us returning to the children and family centre on our doorstep. We haven't been there since last July, that's nine months ago. We drive past it several times a week and last week Bean asked if we could go back and see the staff and say hello. So, today, as we were up and alert in time to go when it was officially open, we went. It was strange doing the walk there again so long, especially as the boys followed exactly the same routine as they used to all those months ago, taking the same detours and hiding in the same places. Intriguing.

Bean was being contrary this morning. First he asked to scoot to gymnastics and then decided that he was too tired and could we go in the car. When it came to leave in the car he wanted to scoot. Fortunately he is quite easy to reason with if you explain things in a way he can grasp so we went in the car. then when we arrived he decided that he was too tired to do gymnastics. After so many weeks absence dur to his sickness he now has a horrible cough and cold and was not feeling up to a session. We stayed and watched just in case he changed his mind but as the day has progressed he has decided that he doesn't want to do gymnastics any more.

We joined several home ed families in the park for the early part of the afternoon and Pumpkin enjoyed playing with Bean and began to play with a boy who we have met several times over the past year. I'm secretly hoping that this friendship will develop over the summer. It was only a small moment today but a pleasing one. We also spent some time on the swings, mummy, Bean and Pumpkin. And pumpkin went on the zip wire on his own and was so bouncingly proud, it was great to see. Bean was keen to come home and Pumpkin was obliging, although it took him a while to move in the right direction but it worked out well.

The rest of the afternoon was mostly watching tv until we ate dinner together, daddy too, and went and played rugby and skittles in the garden and Pumpkin helped me to move our seedlings into the greenhouse. Pumpkin's sunflower has germinated (phew!) and so have mummy's sweet corn and broad beans. Tomorrow we have an at home, garden play, planting day planned.

Plum has been out of sorts again. She seems happy when she is eating, which she does a lot of, nibbling really, but seems very tired in the afternoons even though she has had a sleep, it doesn't  quite seem enough but she won't go back to sleep! She finally gave in whilst I was cooking the dinner (in the sling) but it was a long afternoon of trying to calm her.

Plum has gone to bed now, with daddy, who often falls asleep as he is cuddling her. Pumpkin is asleep on the sofa, too heavy for me to carry upstairs so he is awaiting daddy too and Bean is watching Mr.Men stories. Mr.Men is a theme in our house at the moment as we have also borrowed the new stories from friends. I wonder what Mr.Men they would invent?