See the sea swash

After a bit of  rocky morning and putting a lot if effort into encouraging Pumpkin out of the door, we ended up spending five hours on Worthing seafront. Bean, 10, and Pumpkin, 8, ate bubblegum flavoured ice cream, Plum, 5, had chocolate and Pippin, 2, had strawberry. They all bounced on the trampolines and then we headed to the beach for a late picnic and everyone put on their swimmers and went paddling, splashing, running around, in the sea.

We then headed to the arcade. Plum beat both Bean and Pumpkin at air hockey and Pippin was her usual successful self on the 2p machines and they enjoyed the horse racing game together. Then, Bean and Pumpkin found a shooting game that they could play together and they loved it. They played it three times and have arranged to come back with their pocket money for another go.

And all of that took five hours. Pumpkin, Plum and Pippin all fell asleep in the car on the way home and we only got home tw minutes before daddy. Fortunately i had thrown meatballs in the slow cooker so easy food prep for a meal.

And, dispite the rocky morning, the children are in the midst of planning two more beach trips.