i’m on holiday today so it’s an official day of fun. esther’s gone to school so my mum and i are taking kezia to toddler aerobics, then we’ll pick esther up and head off for an afternoon of jollity in henley. then back for a fish and chips supper.
and the weather looks great too !
hoorah.
my mum and i took the girls to a maze this afternoon (hoorah for early work starts providing early work finishes !). it’s a Saxon Maze which was built in 1991. £1.50 for adults and jolly good fun.
kezia enjoyed running off and playing hide and seek. a maze is very handy if you are the hider but less good if you are the seeker, so we kept having to catch her as she whizzed off round corners. unfortunately this just encouraged her more !
and here is my mum and esther and kezia in the maze:
testing for whether nanna loves butter (using the infallible buttercup reflection test):
and the girls having lollies:
here is my mum. she’s staying for today and tomorrow. i was meant to be mending her computer but she forgot to bring it with her (d’oh !).
esther took this photo.
i’m working from home today. kezia just came in to the room where i’m working and sat on a chair opposite where i’m sitting and started doing her own work !
she was only there for about 2 minutes and went away again without saying anything (version with finger in the 24 hour photos)
sunday usually involves lots of time at church for us, especially if we are doing music. today we left the house at 8.15am and got back at 12.15 because we had two seperate practices for two future events.
esther and kezia are always fantastic at playing and just getting on with stuff, and today was no exception. so we offered them a treat. esther chose mcdonalds, so that’s what we did.
this afternoon we went for what is becoming a traditional sunday afternoon bike ride (see here and here). on the way, our friend Gill popped her head out of a passing car window and invited us round to her house for a refreshing drink.
here is esther and adam playing whilst we refreshed ourselves with our hot beverages of choice.
here is kezia playing sleeping bunnies. the bunny has just jumped up and ran around hopping. kezzy can’t hope so she runs and screams instead.
here is hannah (born 18 Apr 04):
here is olivia (born 20 Apr 04)
here is dougie (born 21 Apr04)
congratulations to all involved !
here’s a little test to find the personality of your children – find a giant flower than looks like a hat and get them to stand underneath it. notice the different reactions !
note: no flowers or children were damaged or hurt in the process of obtaining these photos.
it’s a public holiday in the UK today and of course it’s raining. so we’ll probably take the kids for a nice walk in the rain.
update: we went to Kew Gardens and got very wet:
we had our friends Andy, Mary-Anne, Jacob and Alice for lunch. we beefed it up with the traditional ‘orkshire puddings.
summer decided to return so here we are in the garden:
and here are alice and kezia enjoying a drink and a cake:
here is dougie. he’s 10 days old and is very cute. he belongs to paul and liz.
last week three of our bests friends had babies every 2 days (you know what i mean). Dougie is the youngest.
here is a profile view:
here’s tony. he often comments on the blog so you’ll know him by his cutting wit. if he looks confused it’s because he’s lost in music. there’s no turning back apparently. yes. he’s caught in a trap.
he babysat as we went out auctioning which was very kind of him. and doesn’t he looked pleased about it ?
a 6am start working from today quietly downstairs. About 7.45 i heard a thundering noise, the door opened and esther and kezia arrived !
Here they are giving you a good morning wave.
we went out cycling this afternoon in the blistering heat with esther (still painted like a dog) on jane’s tag-a-long and kezia on the back of my bike.
there are bluebells everywhere this year and they look fantastic.
we had our annual church meeting today which is always good fun. there was a nice competitive edge as there were 10 nominees for 9 places on the PCC (the church council).
i didn’t let you down, dear readers, and got voted back in. hoorah.
meanwhile the children went to the church hall and were painted (and treated?) like animals by some nice volunteering ladies.
