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!