Holiday Club

Hannah and Chloe had great fun at the Thornhill Church Holiday Club. Sherriff Shambles and the Pizza Posse provided lots of fun, games, songs and craft.

It was just what these two cow-girls were looking for to keep them out of trouble!

Muddy Fun

Uncle Tim, Auntie Abby, Chloe and Anya came to visit us this week, which was great fun.

Chloe joined Hannah at the Thornhill Church Holiday Club for a couple of days, which deserves a blog entry of it's own, and we made sure that the weather didn't stop us from having a fun time.

We took a trip to Cefn Onn park and made some great hippopotamus impressions as we wallowed and splashed in the mud! That's what mud is for!

It's a miracle!

Despite being snapped in half, knocked to the floor countless times, and a local delicacy for every slug within 3 miles of the house, Hannah's first ever sunflower has finally flowered!

(But we won't talk about the other 20 sunflower seeds that never grew bigger than 5 cm!)

Snug as a bug

Thomas trying out his new pillow and duvet. It makes me feel sleepy just looking at the picture!

Big Day

It was Hannah's first day at 'big nursery' today, at the local school. She charged in as soon as the door was opened, and when asked for a goodbye kiss replied "But I want to play with the water..."

I'm sure that she missed us really.

And Thomas didn't want to go home from there, either...

Tredegar House

We spent the morning walking around Tredegar House grounds, today. Hannah did lots of 'fishing' in the lake, while Thomas did lots of exploring. Mummy and Daddy just enjoyed the peace and quiet.

And then, going for the suave, sophisticated look...

Elton John lookalike...

... although it's his real hair!

Triffids!

We're pretty sure that the sunflower in the picture is man-eating, but Hannah is OK, as she's a girl!

It would be nice to pretend that we'd managed to grow a sunflower that big, but really it's been plant-napped from Auntie Jan, as the one that Hannah was growing had a slight accident...

Luckily, the sellotape is doing the trick, though, so if Hannah's sunflower ever does flower, then we'll post a picture of it on here!

Heath Park

As a prize for managing to go two whole weeks without waking up in the middle of the night and calling for Mummy, Hannah got to choose a "special treat" for herself today.

She could have chosen anything - a new car, a trip to New York, a round-the-world cruise, but she chose big and asked to go to Heath Park to fly her kite!

Even better than that, Uncle Mike, Auntie Jan and James also came, and we had lots of fun in the play park, flying the kite, playing 'pitch-and-putt' (which was more like 'pitch-and-duck' with the standard of golf on show!), and then a visit to the model railway!

And, to cap it all off - Daddy, after managing to survive a whole summer without getting sunburnt, got sizzled and turned into a beetroot! Even though it was cloudy nearly all day!