warm saturday

Finally we had a Saturday with sunshine popping through the clouds and a hint of a warm breeze! With a little time to spare before the food shop, Oscar and Chris put their wellies on for their weekly Saturday "Daddy and Oscar Adventure!"...and went off to walk in a river somewhere. Meanwhile, Barney and I enjoyed the fresh day on the way to Tesco by going on his first long expedition on his trike.


Barney packed all the essentials in the boot of his trike: a drink and his toy remote control.

He was mostly extremely quiet and enthralled on the journey as I pushed him, except for when we would sing a little song, or he'd just exclaim a lovely little "ooooooooooo!!!!". His little hands held tightly the whole time to the handle bars, and his little legs weren't long enough to reach the pedals properly.

The plan was to rendezvous at Tesco with the other two. They turned up about half an hour later than planned, smelling of forests, and Oscar had different trousers on to when he left.

Turned out they went wading quite deep in the river and a terrified Oscar had taken a perilous step that caused water to fill up one of his wellies.

But the story ends well. We bought coco pops and a Harry Potter tshirt, and some peppers for a snack he wanted at school. I love Saturdays.

bath time

Barney's skin surface area was about 17% covered in blue felt tip, so it was time for a bath. And this bath time something vey special happened... Barney found his reflexion! He kept turning to look at himself in the plug turner, smiling and chatting away to his new friend. I caught a moment where he's considering himself, in a totally hilarious and neck-flattering pose. Love this lad!

shoe elf

In an almost completely opposite way to 'The Elves and the Shoe Maker' story, Barney has become the Shoe Elf at our house by moving and hiding the shoes. Yesterday alone we found one of my red shoes in the kitchen, and one of Oscar's trainers under the couch.

Tonight Barney had just snuck out into the hall to the shoe drawers, and I heard him muttering "...Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy...", so I crept round the doorway to see him crouching trying to lift up Daddy's giant shoe. Heave ho! Triumphantly he shows me what he's found, and then tried to walk past me with it. Not so fast Sonny Jim. Although, if he tried to hide Daddy's size 12 shoe, I don't think it would be the most difficult thing to spot.

Then I ran upstairs to put something away, and returned about 30 seconds later to find one of my wellies in the middle of the living room.

To be fair to Barney, he does try to balance things out. If he takes a shoe from the hall, he'll replace it with something else. Like a spoon. Or the TV remote, twice. Every day is like a treasure hunt , haha :)

    
  

one sock and a chocolate mouth from a stolen smartie,
there has never been a cuter shoe burgler.

mr 5 ★

Oscar has been long anticipating his special day... birthday number FIVE!! It was a super brilliant! Here are some joys from the day...

In the morning...

FIRST BIKE!

A Buzz Lightyear from his little brother

Birthday waffles for breakfast

Party time!! 10 little friends play games and have fun. Like Barney, he also had a very cool music playlist*. He went super crazy dancing to 'This is Halloween", which he'd adamantly insisted on despite the fact it's not October!

Birthday badge:
while pinning it on Oscar said,
"Watch out for my nipple though, please!"

Ozzy throwing some moves during musical statues!

Yummy homemade cake!

The table and party food, mmmm!

Visits filled with lots of love and gifts from family. He felt very happy and completely spoilt!

After everyone had gone, we got cosy and wound down for the evening. For tea we finished off the party food leftovers. Oscar claimed it was the best tea EVER! It consisted of cold pizza, jam sandwiches, carrot sticks, crisps, harribo, tomatoes, and birthday cake. Amazing! Then we snuggled up to watch one if his favourite movies before bed.

We're so proud of our biggest boy and excited for him as he embarks out on the world as a 5-year-old, because of course, now that he's 5 everything is different from when he was 4!! He keeps freaking out remembering he's 5!

Love you Oscar - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Photo time line of Oscar through his first half-decade!

*OSCAR'S PARTY PLAYLIST!

1) One Direction - Beautiful
2) Cars - Real Gone
3) This is Halloween
4) Go Go Power Rangers
5) High School Musical - All In This Together
6) The Jungle Book - The Bare Necessities
7) Cars - All Night Long
8) Pokemon Them Tune
9) Horrid Henry Theme Tune
10) Tangled - When Will My Life Begin
11) High School Musical - Breaking Free
12) LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
13) Toy Story - You've Got a Friend
14) Shrek - Rockstar
15) Transformers - Autobot Theme