Met my parents at Compton again for a lovely tea shop brunch option. Managed to invite G.Auntie Rosie and G.Uncle Mike.
Whilst Rosie has showered Bea with gifts and has photos they’ve never met (yes, Daddy guilt trip; sorry). As can be seen they were best buddies immediately.
Daddy came up with the brilliant idea that we should go away…..I really should let Daddy have more of these spontaneous ideas!!!! We had such a FANTASTICALLY beautiful, relaxing and lovely time in our picture perfect (Jasmine) Cottage in Windrush. We arrived at 5:30 Friday, Bea was beside herself with excitement! She had the most gorgeous room and just loved the whole notion of a “little holiday weekend”. She happily went off to sleep in her cabin bed whilst Mummy and Daddy cooked, drank, sat by the fire and generally enjoyed not being able to do all the normal jobs which need doing when at home.
Bea’s bedroom 🙂
We filled Saturday with Burford and a lovely brunch in Huffkins, then went onto a fab Park with Bea! Dismal weather so we had it all to ourselves 🙂
Home to the Cottage for a novel afternoon sit down before pottering off to the local Pub a mile down the road for good pub grub! On our jolly way….
Lots of name writing and “lists” being written….she likes to write lists….who knows where she got that obsession from!?
And some hand-jiving!
Very funny walk home, squiffy Mummy and Daddy, limited eye spy in the dark and an awful lot of toads in the road….!?!?
Sunday we went home via Oxford and had another day of pottering and eating. A very lovely way to spend a weekend!
so technically Mummy was duped for a motorbike BUT I shan’t hold a grudge! As is often the case I returned on the Saturday to this domestic picture….
Oh how they do LOVE to make a mess when Mummy’s walking the Arek!!!
Later that Day Daddy and Charlie were busy at the Gliders AGM so us girls decided to hit the Flicks!! Chosen film: “Home” I showed her the trailer and she laughed the whole way through….and we laughed (Mummy blubbed a bit!) all the way through the film too! Lovely afternoon!
Mothers Day began early with Daddy off at 5:30am to collect his new Motorbike from Bristol so us girls did some prep for Grammie from me and Auntie Katie. And then we went for my treat and had brunch in Cote….
…..or Bea’s treat!?
Croque Monseiur of course! Followed by the “jam tasting menu!?”
A spot of shopping…..for Charlie’s shoes that Bea very proudly carried around town
We popped to Grammies to give her her Mothers day treats and see Nanny and Grandpa which was lovely and then got home just before Daddy and his big new blue Motorbike!!
And Mummy got a very special present from her three very special people….
going back to the subject of swimming…..Bea began to “wobble” about swimming without Mummy? Nothing to do with the water, just the realisation that I wasn’t in the pool anymore. But thanks to a truly brilliant teacher and persistence we’re back to loving it again!! So much so I she had a private lesson this week in the hols with her teacher Sally (who she loves!!!) She was brilliant and handled 30mins one-on-one without any worries!! A bit of Park action is often had afterwards!
Daddy was left in charge of feeding dinner and critically choosing pudding.
With Easter eggs won earlier Bea was keen to get her chops around some chocolate.
This was the mess that resulted.
Local church put on an annual easter egg hunt. Rather than searching for eggs, they give the kids a sheet of clues and a pen and send them into the church grounds.
Mummy was here last year so knew to expect wet grass (wellies) and cold (coats) and thinking caps (clues hard!)!
With Ollie leading the way (and the brains) we raced in for the clues.
45mins later we had all the clues nailed – each clue giving us a single letter of the alphabet.
This left us with 12 letters to rearrange into something to do with easter.
It became apparent that one of our letters was wrong, and on reinspection we realised our “L” should have been a “T”.
Another Daddy came over. We had “BUNNY” and with some chatting plus the correct letters we realised it was “BUNNY’S BASKET”!
WooHoo! We quickly wrote on Ollie’s and Bea’s sheets and charged over to the gate and chose our prize chocolate easter egg!
Mummy and Daddy keen to get round to the school for a nice warm cuppa.
Here’s Bea writing in one of the letters:
We went off to the Ingfield Easter Fair on Thurday which was brilliant fun!! First off was the Hreat Letter Hunt….very excited!!!
En route to the compost toilet!
Great anticipation for the Steam Train ride!!
Midway through Bunny make-over!
Bunny scooting!
Bunny swinging with the Starmer boys!
A few snaps of us having fun “out the back!” – technically private land but us and next door like to think of it as an extension our land 🙂 We are the only ones who go out there and Bea and I have brilliant fun with and in the stream….
Playing hide-and-seek, racing between the trees…and up the trees!!!
Apparently not scared of heights…!!
A bit brief but I think we’re here again! Last weekend was Chocca with everyone in different diffections. Bea had a brilliant time at Isla’s Party! Dutifully sitting eating her Haribo…..as instructed by Mummy…..whilst everyone else played in the bubbles!? She was still happy 🙂
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Daddy took Bea swimming on Sunday and they had an hours with of fun!!! Swimming post to follow…..!
We had an absolutely brilliant jammed-packed week!!! In brief we did:
1. Curry lunch with Grammie and Grampie!!
2. Lovely day with Grammie with a snuggle fest and movie in the afternoon whilst Mummy and Auntie Katie battled the elements a with the dogs!
A gorgeous day with Nanny and Grandpa!
Which of course included a Frozen dance-off!!
My MOST beautiful niece
3. To BRIGHTON a for the day! Beautiful weather, beautifully behaved children! Utterly fab fun!!
Backseat Bus ride!!
First stop Wagamamas
Onto the Brighton Eye!
Fun on the Pier!!!!
And a veeeeeery sleepy Arch on the ride home!
but also enjoyed bundling up for dog walks….
And snuggling up with Grammie with a book having a laugh!
