Grandad Andrew

Grandad Andrew came to visit a little while ago. The children wanted stories read! 

Catching up on pics

Grandad andrew came to visit a few weeks ago before disappearing off around the world again...

He brought some 30year old oil paints and made butterfly paintings with Della, which obviously she loved doing. 

Gus was upset to see him go

A few pics of various things like snacking at the park...

Gus watching tv

Us blocking the view of the castle Howard Christmas tree

The pair of them on swings at castle Howard - Della being protective to her little brother

Gus' reflection

Story time with granda Len

A visit to Santa on the derwent valley light railway, which is only ten mins away and we didn't even know existed!

And two satsuma's - guess which Gus did and which Della drew?!

Just a cute bath time

They fight a lot, and hug and love a lot! 

Ronald Dahl Day

To celebrate the 100th birthday of Roald Dahl the school dressed up as their favourite character one day. She isn't really a huge fan as they can be quite emotionally terrifying tales. She does love the Giraffe, the Pelly and me. So she declared the Pelly was the one for her! Here she is in a back to front hoody, covered in a yellow t-shirt! 

Bonfire day and night

So today began with daddy taking Della for a run in the park with Della and some of her friends - loosely training for the kids 1.5k run next year... 

Then we had lunch - egg and cress sandwiches and cheese scones!!!

Then it was time to get ready to go out to dunnington for bonfire night. We wrapped up warm - though then forgot to bring gus's coat with us. Sorry Gus...

Saturday morning = Castle Howard

It's so autumnal it feels wrong not to be out in the woods. So we took soup to CH. it's my favourite lunch I've had all year I think... 

Half term

Somehow Della has been back at school for six weeks! Which means it's now half term. She made a list of things she wanted to do. More on that later but today we have been looking after a friend from school who is the year above Della. 

As the one adult to three children ratio can be pretty intense we went to Piglets. This is a farm/adventure play/ activity centre a 10 min drive away. This half term was its annual pumpkin festival which meant lots of Halloween inspired activities. 

Crafting before we left 

Sand play 

Trucks!! 

Picnic Lunch

As this place is also a working farm today we got to ride on a tractor to the pumpkin patch and everyone got to pick their own pumpkin to take home. This was loved by all the children!

Of all the perfect pumpkins on offer Della choose a pretty gnarly one as it looked like witches fingers, apparently...

Then we got lost in a maze hunting for ghosts

Bounced on some giant pillows

Rode in a barrel

Went on a fancy dress parade with soMe witches

Watched a magic show and shot corn from a cannon. 

Then we came home, exhausted!