Annette and Holgar's BBQ

 

We hadn't seen our friend, Max, for a while and his parents kindly offered to cook us a BBQ lunch.








It was one of the hottest days we've had this year so Annette brought out Max's old baby bath and filled it with water.  We all played together.

I tried to get in but mum was a spoil sport.









After lunch we chilled inside.

Chocolate Icecream at Bishops Park

 

More icecream?

 

 

No?

Sure?

Happy B-Day

It was our (Alex's and mine) birthday so mum and dad decided to do a joint party.  Well we actually had a BBQ.

We had a cake each so we could blow out the candles.  Mine was carrot cake and Alex had coffee cake.

Shhhhh - I sneaked some cake but Alex missed out.  ;)


 


 
  
  


There were about 10 people in all plus a few of my friends. 

Before everyone arrived we decided to chill out by playing with some boxes.

Mum thought she'd be clever by putting some toys in a blow up pool so when my friends came they could play without making a total mess. 

She was definately wrong about that as Alex decided to test it out.

We got some awesome presents, too.

Boys Room

Mum and dad finally got around to creating a room for Alex and me just in time for Button to arrive.

It looks like a bedroom now and not just a hodge podge of storage and makeshift sleeping area for me.

Mum likes it as all our toys and books are in one place and out of the lounge room.  Though I do bring a few toys and books into the lounge daily; not as much mess as it used to be.

Shoe Fetish?

 

Moi?

Park, Park, PARK!!!

On our overnight stop at Brouge on the way home from our holiday mum and dad decided to have dinner in the old town. 

The SatNav directed us to a parking space 200 metres away from the one we had on our first visit. 

Strangely, the significance of this was lost to all but my mother as she noticed that there was a park with a playground not 10 metres from our latest parking spot. 

This park was lined with tall trees on either side and a river.  Unfortunately, there wasn't a swing or a see saw in sight but it was wonderful nonetheless.

She convinced dad and Alan that it would be best for us to check it out as we'd had a long drive. 

I love my mum!

Gleefully we spent about an hour climbing about. 

For most of the time we were there we saw no one else let alone children then a couple of older children with their grandparents stopped for about 10mins.  They were too old for me to play with.

Life's A Beach

Each day we went to the beach and Dad would make a large hole in the sand near the water’s edge.  Then he would put a little wall around it so we could have a ‘bath’ when the waves filled it with water. 

We loved this as we weren’t getting splashed by the waves of cold water and we could paddle etc. to our hearts content.  Mum and dad liked it as they felt we were contained. 

Unfortunately, the waves would erode it eventually.  This was by no means the biggest destructive force; I was. ;)

I enjoyed sliding down and pretending to be humpty dumpty or trying to stomp on the wall as if it was a sand castle to be concquered.  Alex did help alittle.  This meant that dad was left constantly repairing the wall defences.

When I wasn’t destroying the ‘bath’ I was trying to engage Alan to play.  Alan was trying to sunbath but I kept asking him to look at shells, sticks, etc.  Alan managed to ignore me so I had no choice other than to came back to the ‘bath’. 




Each time we went to the beach mum would pack a frozen picnic - milk, water, oranges, apples, piklets.  She'd pack them frozen and by the time we were hungry they'd have thawed out enough to be cool and refreshing.

 


  
 
Most of the time I played with Alex or mum and dad as everyone spoke French except for us.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
On one occassion, about 15mins before we decided to leave, a little boy (about 5 who mum thought might have ADHD as he was a bit manic in his behaviour) came up and admired the ‘bath’ dad had made. 

 
 
 

We invited him to play and he was very excited.   Despite the fact that we didn't speak each other's language we had managed to communicate enough to build a sand castle or two.  We ended up to play for about 30 mins. 

Alex would have his nap whilst we were at the beach.  We'd often bring a pop up tent but Alex wouldn't sleep in it so mum and dad rigged up some shade with the pram.