The End is Nigh

The end of the school holidays, at least. Although school proper starts on Monday, the nursery doesn't open until a week later (8th Sept) because they spend the first week doing home visits for new kids. It's Jacob's last term at nursery school - after Christmas, he starts "Big School" - eek!

Sam is now old enough to go to Playgroup, and he starts on 12th Sept. The difference between this and Mother and Toddler sessions is that I get to leave him there! He'll be doing two 3 hour sessions a week this term (they've put their prices up to £7.50 a session, which makes it a bit pricey), perhaps moving up to three sessions after Christmas. After Easter, he'll qualify for five free sessions a week, either at the nursery or at Playgroup, and suddenly I'll have a lot of time on my hands....

Viking Invasion (slight return)

The Vikings are coming, the Vikings are coming!!!

A Really Useful Engine

The weather here has utter crap recently - rain, rain and more rain - and while its fine to do most play areas with one adult to two pre-schoolers, its not really feasible/safe to do things like swimming etc. That does limit your "when wet" scope considerably. However, a week spent at my mum's meant we didn't have this problem; here they are on the East Lancs railway, enjoying a trip on the steam train from Rawtenstall to Heyworth.



We didn't do anything epic during the week; working farm, local parks, play area (and a first trip to the barbers for both boys!) as well as an afternoon spent bouncing on Aunty Amanda's huuuuuuuge trampoline and playing with cousin Hannah on their Wii. I think both of those items will be bought in the coming year.

Unfortunately, most of these photos are on my mum's new digital camera that I was giving a try out; as she doesn't have broadband or a cd/dvd burner, they'll have to wait until she visits next week and I can upload them to my gallery.