i did another early start this morning and by the time the kids woke up i’d already done a good half day’s work. i’ve been reviewing a stupidly document and didn’t notice esther come in and set herself up ready to play her guitar.
what followed was a pleasant pre-breakfast serenade.
british ‘A’ roads often have signs pointing to laybys with the letter ‘P’ by them. I always thought that meant Parking. until we had children.
now i know it means ‘potty’.
jane asked me to get out the car and help so i did. when we finally got back in the car and drove off she said to me very sweetly “you know when i said help, i didn’t mean ‘take a photo’, i actually meant ‘please help me’ ”
i am SO rubbish at understanding things like that.
genuine fun on an artifical beach
esther and her friend adam were hiding from the grown ups in a cupboard. they had a shelf each which made hiding more organised
kezia was looking particularly cool this morning.
marking is finally finished. jane is back in circulation again. hoorah indeed.
a family milestone. i came home this evening to witness esther had learnt to skip. she did 10 in a row and was very pleased.
esther and kezia’s grandparents have a giant cardboard box which esther and kezia love to lock themselves inside of. here they are having a nice game.
here are adam, kezia and big eye eating puddings
all being well this is my last weekend as a solo parent as jane will finish her marking this week. then we’ll be back to full family fun.
i took esther and kezia to another carnival today. the girls had their face painted as usual. here are two rabbits:
and here is a chap dressed as a butterfly. he started off as a caterpillar earlier in the day, but the carnival parade took so long that by the time he arrived he’d changed. apparently he was really boring to watch about half way round:
the first descent and the second descent:
the third descent:
a broken fan. no wonder it’s so hot out there today
it was our local village donkey derby today. esther’s old pre-school has a stall doing face painting (and tattoos and hook-a-duck).
jane took time out of her marking to do some face painting:
here is the end result:
jane continues to mark exam papers diligently. she’s been locking herself in a room at her parents house so as not to be distubed by her disturbing husband and children.
here she is having a rare moment of fun when we went to collect her this evening:
and here is her father in his role as “the big bad bear” chasing Esther:
this afternoon’s outing was to a local swing park. here is kezia as seen through the climbing chains.
esther and kezia play with the games on my mobile phone. esther kept running up to me and explaining how it works. i hadn’t (and still haven’t) got a clue what the game is all about.
this week’s “dad and daughters” shop was in waitrose. look at the higher quality of fun we had compared to asda last week.
kezia is doing the barcode scanning whilst esther is fethching the produce.
esther painted this today. i asked her what it was and she said she just wanted to paint something that looked nice, so it’s just shapes and colours connected.
i’m biased of course, but i think it looks great !
here is another piece from the same session:
when we went scarecrow hunting the first time it was very wet and we saw a puddle with some big oil drops in. i didn’t take a photo as it we were crossing a busy road and it was chucking it down with rain.
esther saw the puddle and said “look at all those colours daddy”.
i asked her if she knew what it was and she said “is it the end of a rainbow ?”
