"LET'S GO FLY A KITE"

What a lovely and exhausting weekend. After a busy week work-wise for both of us including a late Friday night for Adrian, Saturday morning was a list of jobs to do around the house. I took the boys for morning tea at Uncle Chris and Aunty Sue's while Adrian ripped up the old carpet in the family room and found all the spots he needs to replace before polishing which is not as bad as we thought it might be. Once the boys were having their nap I nipped out to buy some plants for the garden and the boys and I spent the afternoon planting strawberries, lettuces and veggies and making a hell of a mess! There were lots of snails and spiders and big juicy worms for them to play with while I was digging and when Jack put one worm back into his "house", he told me that "he's going to play with his toys Mummy", what kind of toys do worms play with I asked the boys, Tom looked at me like I was an idiot and said "worm toys mummy". Meanwhile Adrian was flat out cleaning out all the rubbish from the garage to take to the tip including the old carpet. Saturday night Adrian and I were so exhausted we watched a movie and drank some vino it was lovely.

Sunday morning Adrian headed off to the Tip early and the boys and I played some games including driving trains with the kitchen chairs which inspired the decision that we would go on a real train journey when daddy came home. The boys were very excited by the time daddy came home and we all headed off. It was a great trip and very exciting as we headed up to Johnsonville (about 20 mins away) and it was a great journey including plenty of tunnels and the boys had their tickets in their hot little hands and loved handing them to the ticket person who clicked them with the ticket machine.

We had a wander around and then home for lunch and a huge sleep for all the boys of the house and then onto the park this afternoon for kite flying which was great, Ade had brought a kite while we were out and it was windy enough to get the kite up and the boys loved it particularly Thomas who held on really tightly but Jack preferred to let it go and watch mummy and daddy run madly after the handle before it flew away.

Cute story - at afternoon tea time today Thomas was eating all the cheese from a plate of cheese and crackers we were sharing, I said to Tom, "you're a cheese eating monster, I wonder where you get it from " (meaning Adrian who is also a cheese eating monster) - he said, "I got if from here on the plate mummy"!