London's calling

Yesterday the whole family ventured to London. It began with Pumpkin refusing to go and then moving to 'i'll give it a try but if i don't like it then i want to come home' as we drove to the station. Great things that happened on our trip were visiting Winter Wonderland and the smalls riding on various fair ground rides. Bean choose to ride on the vehicle round about ride twice, Pumpkin joined him for one of the turns. Bean then carefully choose the fun house. It took him a long time of wandering to and fro past it to be sure that this is what he wanted to do but he loved it so much that he wanted to take us all on it. Pumpkin also chose the helter skelter, which he loved and struggled to choose between a return visit to the roundabout with his brother, the helter skelter or the aeroplane ride. He went for the aeroplane ride. And daddy took Plum on a Rudolph carriage ride. We ate candy floss and had lunch sat by the Serpentine. I had made rather crumbly egg and bacon pie which was an invitation for every bird going to visit our bench!

We took several buses on our route back to the station travelling via Oxford St and Regent St and onto Convent Garden to take in all the Christmas lights. We found the lego creation in Convent Garden which predictably the boys loved and we spent quite some time analysing the different building and all their lego components. Bean noticed the use of robot pieces on The Houses of Parliament. The journey home was eased with a kids meal. It was a busy and tiring day and i'm glad that we took the stroller as well as the sling as both were well used.

The whole experience confirmed for me that solo trips to London with the smalls are really not an option at the moment.

Today took us to our Home Ed Winter Wednesday group where we had a Christmas theme. I completed the snow globes that we had started a few weeks ago, with the help of my creative friend, and Plum had her face painted as a cat (very topical for her atm) the boys ran around and play fought with their friends. Pumpkin is clearly tired and was quite fractious at times but changed completely after taking himself off on his own for a few minutes. There was music and food and balloons and lots and lots of friends.

a tornado by Pumpkin