The boys are all excited, B and J about being on the train and Sam about having just had an ice cream!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Who needs a ball to play catch?
Today we met up with Auntie J and cousins B and J at Ferry Meadows. The boys decided it was much more fun to play catch with sam's hat than with with ball. It was lovely to be back in peterborough, we do miss it so.
Cool fun on a hot day
We met up with Sarah and the girls last week at Burghley's garden of surprises. Sam and the girls had lots of fun in the water and sarah and I had a chance to catch up.
rub a dub dub two men in a tub
At this point they were becalmed in the middle of the lake. The wind had dropped and they had lots of trouble moving. They didn't seem to mind and had lots of fun. It was very swallows and amazon.
Chilling on the lake
Here they are with sam supposed to be in charge of the sail and sam next door in charge of the tiller.
Ready to set sail
On saturday S and his friend Sam went sailing with beavers. They had a blast but spent most of the time either in the reeds or in the middle of the lake.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
The cheeky boys
We met up with A and C today at belton house, where the boys had a glorious time in the adventure playground. It was lovely to see them and catch up with M on all her news.
The cousins
sam and his cousins B & J at Duxford. If the weather had been nicer you would have been able to see that they were wearing matching shirts courtesy of nana and grandad. By all accounts it was a very chilly evening but it didn't rain so everyone was happy.
A cool plane
A Dakota DC3 as taken by sam at Duxford this weekend. He had a ball and enjoyed the music and enjoyed playing with his cousins.
A unique prewash setting
Rogue is such a helpful guy, he really likes to get involved with the housework!
Guess who has a new bike?
Sam on his new red bike, he looks so grown up. He hasn't made it out of the close yet but now the weather is getting nicer we will take it up to watermead.
Good enough to eat!
The cake sam and I made for our 4th of July party. It was very yummy and we had great difficulty in keeping the dogs away from the strawberries.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The boy is back..
after spending the weekend at his grandparents. He had a blast and we had an very quiet house. They picked him up friday afternoon and brought him back this afternoon. He was able to see his great grandmother as well as his aunt & uncle and cousins. They all went to an outdoor concert and airshow on saturday night and sam took about 100 pics! I will post a few of the good ones. By all accounts he had fun didn't miss us at all. It was very strange not having him in the house, though the dogs didn't seem to notice he was gone!! A huge thank you to matt's parents for having sam and allowing us to have a little grown up time. We spent it wisely, sleeping late, going out for lunch and just generally pottering. We have spent a lovely afternoon with matt's parents and sam-we went out to lunch to celebrate our anniversary (thank you!!) and then came home for a Wii tournament. Both Nana and grandad managed to hold their own against sam in tennis, baseball and bowling. We tried in vain to get wii fit but it is sold out everywhere, we are on a few on line waiting lists so I guess we will get one eventually.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Home ed just isn't working..
for rogue-well you didn't think I meant sam did you? He is as happy as larry at home and has declared that he wants to be home educated for college too! Me thinks not! Anyway, try as we might we can't seem to help rogue with his dog aggression issues so we have turned to Rachaael at www.aknak9.com for help. She is a local dog trainer, breeder and dog behavorist. She breeds American Innuits and they are just beautiful. Her alpha female Cheyanne has been helping rogue with getting to know other dogs. Our first session last week was a bit tense and we were glad that rogue had a muzzle on but by the end of the session they had reached a from of entent cordiale. After one to one time rogue and miko and the three of us joined the agility class. Both dogs did really well considering it was their first time, though we humans had a few problems with going around the course! Sam took miko on the last lap and she was definately in charge-poor guy practically flew round thecoanturse-but he loved it. We are going to train with Rachael once a week and hopefully this will help rogue with his issues. We just want him to be happy and he seems very frustrated that he doesn't know how to play with anyone but miko.
Schooling for the monster is going well-we are now on to long division and the 8 times tables. We have started a month long experiment involving corn and beans which he is excited about. We are going to carry on working over the summer but at a much more relaxed pace to allow us to visit with schooled friends and go on days out.
He is very excited at the moment as he is going to spend the weekend with his grandparents this weekend and they are taking him to a concert and airshow at duxford. He will get to see his cousins at the concert and he can't wait to talk star wars with benjamin. Matt and are going out for a belated anniversary lunch on sat which will be nice. I will really miss my little guy but I know that he is going to have lots of fun.
Schooling for the monster is going well-we are now on to long division and the 8 times tables. We have started a month long experiment involving corn and beans which he is excited about. We are going to carry on working over the summer but at a much more relaxed pace to allow us to visit with schooled friends and go on days out.
He is very excited at the moment as he is going to spend the weekend with his grandparents this weekend and they are taking him to a concert and airshow at duxford. He will get to see his cousins at the concert and he can't wait to talk star wars with benjamin. Matt and are going out for a belated anniversary lunch on sat which will be nice. I will really miss my little guy but I know that he is going to have lots of fun.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A click through to help fluffy critters..
The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals.
It takes less than a minute (about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals' for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
It takes less than a minute (about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals' for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Brilliant Barcelona
We have recently returned from a fab vacation in Barcelona and would gladly go back again tomorrow. Everything was perfect, the weather, the food, the hotel, the sights and the shopping. There was so much to see and do that I don't think we saw half of it. We all agreed that is was much better than Paris, especially sam who was treated like a king whereever we went. Some of the highlights were:
the beach, the science museum, the gaudi park, tapas, seeing the new indiana jones movie, shopping and the museums. If anyone is looking for a european city holiday destination then it gets thumbs up from all members of our family.
the beach, the science museum, the gaudi park, tapas, seeing the new indiana jones movie, shopping and the museums. If anyone is looking for a european city holiday destination then it gets thumbs up from all members of our family.
Down by the boardwalk..
One of the highlights of the trip was spending the evenings strolling down by the water. Here is M looking very dashing.
sandman
Barcelona is right on the water and we spent a glorious day at the beach as it was a short walk from our hotel. We bought sam the requiste bucket and spade and he matt had a ball building sandcastles and jumping waves. He asked me to bury hin in the sand and this was the result. I felt very sorry for the chambermaid who cleaned our room as even days after the beach trip sam was still trailing sam around the room.
Not lost really!!
Actually, barcelona was really easy to find our way around and we walked almost everywhere. We did brave the underground and it was very easy to use and very safe.
Gaudi boy
Sam was really taken with all the Gaudi architecture and especially loved the Gaudi park. Here he is with his new friend geckster in front of the gecko statue.
The weekly shop
We stumbled upon the fruit and veg market in barcelona and it was incredible. I have never seen such lovely, delicious fruit at such good prices. The boys especially loved the fresh fruit smoothies-there was a smoothie stall near our hotel and we stopped by at least twice day. If only the markets in leicester looked like this.
Don't try this at home..
The day we left barcelona was the feast day of St. Joan and to celebrate there was a festival of catalonia culture at the waterfront. As part of this festival there was some sort of gymnastic competiton between village teams. There were 4 teams each with different colored sashes and they took it in turn to build structures out of team members. Each structure was topped by small child who must have been very brave. Sam suggested that we should try this at home ed group-I think not!!
Happy boy
This is one happy sam after a fab vacation in barcelona. He had at least one ice cream per day, not to mention pastries at breakfast. He was delighted to find a toy store that sold not only lego but warhammer, needless to say he spent most of his money there.
Smile
Two happy parents as taken by one happy son. We all had a fab time in barcelona and can't wait to return.
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