Holidays

This week we have been on holiday with Mummy (Alli), unfortunately Daddy (Tim) had to go to work on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

We have had a very busy week – here are the details:

Sunday
Unusually Josh was not with us this weekend (he was on holiday) so the house was quite quiet without him and unfortunately because he wasn’t here he missed the bouncy castle that Bethany had for her birthday party. The bouncy castle was brilliant even Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) had a bounce on the castle!!

Monday
Josh arrived home just after 4am this morning but he was still wide awake at 8am! We had decided that we wouldn’t do much today as we didn’t know how tired Josh would be and we didn’t want to tire him out too much, so we spent the day at home and played on our bikes.

At lunchtime Daddy (Tim) decided that as summer had arrived that we should go out and purchase a bbq and have a bbq that evening for dinner – so that is exactly what we did! Daddy (Tim), Mummy (Alli), Em & Josh went out to B&Q (Dan stayed playing out with Bethany) and we deliberated over which bbq to buy, eventually we decided on the one that we wanted and then it was time to go and get some food to cook on our bbq.

When we got back home Daddy (Tim) assembled the bbq and just as he started to cook the food it started to rain a little bit – however, this didn’t stop us! Daddy (Tim) cooked burgers, sausages, chicken drumsticks and chocolate bananas and we ate them underneath the patio umbrella. Unfortunately Josh didn’t get to eat his chocolate banana as he fell asleep eating his sausage!

Tuesday
Emilie & Josh had an early morning appointment at the swimming baths as they had extra lessons booked for this week so that hopefully when we go on holiday in August they will be able to swim. Daddy (Tim) took them to the swimming baths for 8:30am, as this would be the only chance he got to see them swimming this week as he was working the rest of the week. Whilst those three were out Mummy (Alli) and Dan took Holly to the vets as she had a little operation.

At 11am we left home to go and meet Auntie Jennifer, Uncle Mike, Amy & Callum at Walton Gardens. Mummy (Alli) and Auntie Jennifer had arranged for us all to meet up to have some fun and a picnic. As soon as we arrived at the gardens we found our perfect picnic spot and settled in, then we were off playing in the park. After an hour of playing we decided it was time to crack open the picnic, we had lots of food to eat and just as we finished the savouries we surprised Uncle Mike with a birthday cake (a day in advance of his birthday).

After lunch Daddy (Tim), Uncle Mike, Dan & Josh played football whilst the girls and Callum went to look around the childrens zoo. When Callum came back from the zoo he asked Uncle Tim if he could have an ice cream knowing that Uncle Tim can’t refuse his requests! We had ice creams and then all the children had a go on the big inflatable slide, Callum was a little bit small but he managed to get to the top a couple of times with the assistance of Dan. Unfortunately it was soon time for us to leave and go home as we had other activities planned for the evening and we needed to have dinner before we could go out.

On the way back from Walton Gardens we collected a very subdued Holly from the vets and then when we got home we had our dinner. At 6pm the boys and girls then went separate ways, the boys (with Bethany) headed off in the direction of the Trafford Centre to watch Wolverine at the cinema and the girls made their way down to Fuss for a manicure and pedicure. The boys had wanted to watch Wolverine but Emilie didn’t so we decided that the boys should go and that the girls would have a girl’s night, so Mummy (Alli) took Emilie to Fuss to have a manicure and pedicure and then they both came home, got into their pyjamas, got some chocolates, cuddled up under the settee and watched Alice in Wonderland!

Wednesday
After Em & Josh’s swimming lesson we came home and we played out on our bikes again. After lunch Mummy (Alli) took us into Warrington as we needed to choose some presents for Daddy (Tim) as it is his Birthday and Father’s Day in the not too distant future. We think Mummy (Alli) thought this would be relatively quick and painless however we proved her wrong!! It took us nearly 3 hours if traipsing around the shops to finally settle on things that the 3 of us could agree on! We went in almost every shop and picked out some highly unsuitable items before we finally struck gold and all managed to agree on the gifts. When we had purchased the gifts (we can’t tell you what they are, as this will ruin Daddy’s surprise) Mummy (Alli) treated us to a drink and cake. The rest of Wednesday afternoon was spent playing out and then at 8pm we all settled down to watch The Champions League Final – needless to say we were not amused by the result – but we didn’t let it spoil our holiday!

Thursday
After yet another early start we made our way across to Auntie Kimberly’s house, we then left there and made our way to Camelot with Auntie Kimberly, Uncle Dave, Jessica, Jordan, Liam & Ryan.

We had a brilliant day going on lots of rides and watching the jousting show. Mummy (Alli) went on a really scary ride with Jessica – only her & Jess were brave enough, or stupid enough, to go on it!

We were rather amused to discover that Uncle Dave likes to mind everyone’s bags when they go on rides rather than go on the rides himself – we think he is actually scared off the rides!

Friday
Josh & Em had their final early morning swimming lesson and then when we got back from the swimming baths we decided that we would have a play at home day.

At lunch time Dan went round to Bethany’s and then they headed off to the cinema, whilst Em, Josh and Mummy (Alli) met Daddy (Tim) for lunch. Daddy (Tim) didn’t want to go back to work after lunch and we didn’t want him to either but he had to!

When we all got home Dan & Beth decided that they were going to have water fight, whihc resulted in a very wet Daniel an hour later – his clothes were dripping by the time they had finished, he was so wet that Mummy (Alli) made him strip off at the back door before he could come in the house!

Em & Josh didn’t want to join in this time, which is unusual for them, and they decided that they would play “Babies” instead which involves one of them being a parent and one being a baby. It was a very realistic game this time as Josh was being the baby and he was put to bed by “Mummy Emilie” and he actually fell asleep!!!

Sadly at 5pm our week together came to an end as Dan & Em had to go and see their Dad.

Never mind only 10 weeks until we get to spend 2 weeks together on our summer holiday!!!