My Week That Was 2013 #5 (Project 365)

Feeding The Birds (27/365)

 I discovered  today that this was a weekend that the RSPB asks members of the public to spend an hour in one place, say your garden, a park etc.. , and monitor how many birds you see. This spurred me on to go to Tesco and buy some ingredients to make some bird cakes. Using lard, bird seed and raisins Burton and Daddy mixed them all up and formed balls which we placed inside some mesh nets, and then we hung them outside. Then we waited, and waited and waited. Do you know something? In the space of an hour we didn't see a single bird!!! Unbelievable! The boys were suitably unimpressed and I was astounded!

Gruffalo Fuzzy Felt (28/365)

Burton went to Ladybirds. Jenson and I attended a toddler playgroup that we haven't been to for a few weeks owing to two moves and Christmas. It was a bit of a walk as it was near our old house but I am glad that I made the effort and walked there - and luckily we got home just before it rained.
Sometimes the boys can play so nicely together and here they are doing just that when Burton arrived home from pre school.

Double Puddle Trouble (29/366)

Today was a very wet and very windy day. By 9.30am the rain appeared to subside, so I decided (stupidly) to take the boys to the park for some muddy puddle splashing fun. However, within 5 minutes of setting off it absolutely poured down with rain - like torrential - and with the wind blowing right in our faces I wondered whether to continue or just turn around and go home. I did feel bad because it was horrid. I kept going and luckily, by the time reached the park it stopped and the boys were able to enjoy splashing about. It was worth the awful torrential downpour to see their delighted and happy little faces as they splashed about.

Needless to say Jenson fell over twice and got even more soaked so once we were home we stripped off and had a nice warm shower (hot in my case). 

'Making An Ark' (30/365)

Try as I might I could not persuade the boys to go outside and get some fresh air today - I think they were tired from yesterday and to be honest I was too from having walked so far with them and uphill all the way home! So we stayed in and played lots and watched some Peppa Pig. This photo shows them playing with the pirate ship but they ended up adding all the playmobil animals so it was more like an ark!

'Blue' (31/365)

Burton had to have his immunisations at lunchtime today so we set off a little earlier to stop off at the park and the playground first, as it was sunny and dry but very windy!!! In typical mummy mishaps fashion, as we were setting off on our journey I noticed that the buggy had a flat tyre but I had not choice but to keep going and pushing two toddlers on it was hard going I can tell you! Anyway, we enjoyed a lovely time in the park - here is Burton looking up through some climbing rings, which I thought complemented his blue eyes.  Burton almost lost his welly boot in a deep and muddy puddle too (!) but thankfully I managed to pull him out unscathed and clean from any muddy puddle water! 

'Stone!' (32/365)

Burton went to Ladybirds so Jenson and I pottered around at home and did some cleaning - he likes to help me. We popped outside for a bit as it was dry and sunny and he loves picking up stones from the driveway and showing me and bringing them in doors!!

'Water Sparkles' (33/365)

I took the boys to Westward Ho! late morning because it was such a beautiful day: blue sky, sun shining and just too nice not to make the most of it. It was, however, very cold and the beach was freezing! Still the boys enjoyed digging wet sand with their spades and falling over, and discovering little pools of water and falling over, clambering over the pebbles, big and small, and falling over!!! After half an hour Burton fell over in a deep pool of water and we had to head home for a warm shower and a cooked lunch! This photo shows said rock pool that he fell over in, but we loved seeing how the suns rays sparkled in the water.