Busy times

Time just seems to fly by at the moment and I don't get a chance to get on here as much as would like to, and I keep forgetting to take out my camera, so not being inspired by loads of photos backed up on the camera to post has meant I have been neglecting my blog recently.  I do find it hard to find the time to write anything on here too.  Tris has taken the boys to the park for a pasty picnic whilst I stay here and rest as I have done my back in!  So I thought I will catch up on here.

So what have we been doing?  Tris came back from Scotland after climbing mountains through blizzards and generally having a great time.  The boys were very excited to wake up in the morning to come into my room and find Daddy in bed.

We went to the Fal River festival, which was very busy, we caught the end of a puppet show, which we saw last year but it is very funny and the boys really love it, and we popped into the maritime museum again, but it was bit too packed and full of half term kids and activites.

We went to a local PYO farm and picked some strawberries, very yummy. rowan was very serious in his role as cheif strawberry picker and wouldn't eat any as they were to take home, whereas Reu didn't want to put any in the basket 'no these are for my tummy!'

We went to an inflatable session at the swimming pool where Rowan overcame yet more fears and went on a big inflatable crocodile thing and went down a big slide into deep water and loved it.  His swimming has come on so much.  I have been making sure we go every week and he absolutley loves it, I am still amazed at how confident in the water he is - Its great!

We have been meeting up weekly at our home ed group, but most weeks it has just been us and Rowans best friend, which is fun but not what we hoped for.  We have, however, managed to organise a lot of trips out this term which so far seem to be popular.

Yesterday we went to the Royal Cornwall Show, which is the biggest agricultural show here in the year.  Again, I didn't take my camera, but I hope to get some photos from my friend.  We all had a great day, apart from frequently losing Rowan (he has gone from never leaving your side to seeing something and just wandering off to it).  We saw a motorbike stunt show, which i think was the highlight for the older boys and we also saw the chooks, goats, bees, rabbits and lots of tractors and the biggest machines ever!

So that about all we have been doing.  I have been trying to be more relaxed with the children recently, which I think is making life a bit easier, but I think I will watch this space before commenting too much on that!

Rowan in the maritime museum

 Reuben chose the Octonauts comic the other day and inside was the instructions for making the Octopod (The Octonauts HQ).  We had to go to the shops to buy yogurt pots in the correct shape - Rowan likes to follow the instructions excatly,  and we had to buy a shop bought trifle!

But we were all very impressed with the finished Octopod.  It has been played with loads

Oh, and of course our clever chooks need a mention - they are all layers now!