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Friday 22nd August 2013

Today began with a host of minecraft and Pink Panther cartoons. The boys have been enjoying a range of cartoons that are silent (as in, no/few words) with musical soundtracks but the Pink Panther has been the most frequently viewed.

We had a long play with the guinea pigs, Alex and Charlie, and Alex has begun to make a wheek wheek sound when we're around, which according to our research, is a good thing. I also found a wooden house that my dad gave the boys, I think possible his dad made it for him. Well now it is a guinea pig house and it has windows which has worked out really well because we can still see them when they are seeking warmth and snugly safety.

We went to our first ever Not Back To School Picnic today. We caught up with loads of friends who we have been topping and tailing holidays with all summer and others who have been hibernating from the school crowds on holidays. It was a great choice of venue. The play area had loads of space and lots of varied equipment plus a green area for riding bikes and running races and hanging out in when we first arrived as there were a lot of families there, both known and unknown. Plum disappeared except for when she wanted some food and was particularly enjoying the tunnel.

It was hot and the boys had been playing and running around in the sun for some time, I had been sitting in the shade. Bean was the first to ask to go home, he hung on in there for maybe half an hour longer before he was insistent that we went home. He rested in the car, we weren't allowed music or talking! When we got home both boys lay on the sofa in the cool of our living room whilst I fed Plum  thinking that she would go back to sleep, but she didn't.

Soon after this, friends of ours came to play and stayed for tea. The boys disappeared upstairs whilst Plum and her friend played downstairs and in the garden. We introduced them to Alex and Charlie, who dutifully (and understandably) hid and just as we said goodbye to them, daddy arrived home early from work, yippee.

And this evening has seen a trip to co-op for eggs and milk, baths and hair washes for the smalls, cake making for me, stories and milk feeds and cuddles whilst going to sleep, blogging and a cup of tea whilst watching Bob the Builder with the boys.