Summer days

Today. Hot. Melting.

We were up early today as Plum has taken to waking around 6am, not my time of day! But it does mean that we are up and out with a large number of chores done by 10am. Wow! We had a few errands to run. I am loving having the Little Craft Shop on my doorstep (it will bankrupt me), and then to the bank and the post office before a walk and a play and a paddle at Southwater Country Park. We arrived there about 10.15am. The play area was empty and we enjoyed having the space to ourselves. Although with Plum being so mobile now and none of the equipment really being a suitable size for her she needed a lot of support spotting which meant I couldn't help Pumpkin as much as he would have liked on the zip wire, although he did have several goes and Bean watched Plum for a while.

We took Plum on the long long slide, which she was very excited about. Bean took a little video of us going down. Bean also managed to work out how to get out of the tubular rope net and climb on the top of it, similarly Pumpkin climbed on top of the tunnel and crawled across it. There is little shade in the play area and I was not feeling great in the heat, despite the food and water supplies, so I had to call it a day.

We walked back to the car via the 'beach' and had a paddle. The water was really warm. Plum refused to put her toes in when I was holding her but then proceeded to take off her own shoes, walk across the shingle and go into the water on her own.

Plum feel asleep on the way home and me and her slept for an hour on the bed. The boys played downstairs. For the rest of the afternoon we decorated t shirts with fabric paints, did extra special bubble blowing, read books together and lay about keeping cool.

Daddy says that Beans's minecraft creations look like Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. And sat with him for a while to show him some examples. Pumpkin has been busy playing games on the cbeebies website and it's good to see him having some uninterrupted and unguided (by his brother)time. It's also giving him a chance to improve his mouse skills, although I suppose so much is touch screen now that they may well be an outdated skill.

And finally, both boys offered to help Hoover this evening, crazy days! Must be the heat!