A visit from Finley (and Auntie Alex & Ellie)

We were very excited on Friday evening when we were picked up as we knew that Finley was arriving for his first visit to our house! We were a little bit disappointed that he hadn’t arrived when we got in but apparently Auntie Alex, Ellie and Finley had what is known as a nightmare drive up north!

Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) had been a little sneaky though and had not told us that Ellie was also coming up to visit us. The reaction on Daniel’s face was a sight to behold when Ellie popped her head around the door and said very casually “Hi Dan” we think the hug she got from him nearly broke her back!

We enjoyed our Friday evening with Finley even if it was quite short as being a baby he has to go to bed early, but not until he had had fun in our “big” bath as at his house he only has a little baby bath. He splashed Auntie Alex a lot!!

Apparently the adults stayed up quite late on Friday night and were drinking dirty beer and champagne, Mummy (Alli) and Auntie Alex thought it would be a good idea to drink 2 bottles of champagne which they regretted on Saturday (some more than others!)

Saturday was an early start for some of us, surprisingly when we got out of bed Daddy )Tim) was already up – this is unheard of in our house and even more unheard of is that fact that Mummy (Alli) stayed in bed as she wasn’t feeling too good!

Daniel went out for the day with Beth from next door to go and watch some cars racing at Oulton Park. This meant that Emilie & Joshua could have lots of fun with Finley and Ellie! Ellie became their own personal climbing frame and also “assisted” (some would say hindered) them when playing Indiana Jones on the wii. Auntie Alex and Daddy (Tim) had to find a garage to take Auntie Alex’s car to as it had become poorly on it’s way up north. Once a garage had been located and the car dropped off the 7 of us went out to The Stretton Fox for some lunch – which was delicious!

When we got back from lunch we played some more and then it was time for baths again before we put Finley to bed and then we all sat down to eat lots of sweets and watch Madagascar 2 – which was brilliant! When the film had finsihed it was time for us to go to bed ready for Sunday which was going to be an exciting day as on Sunday we were all going to Dan’s birthday party!

On Sunday morning normal service was resumed, we got a bit of a lie in this morning as the clocks went forward which meant Finley wasn’t awake as early as he was on Saturday, and when we came downstairs Mummy (Alli) was busy in the kitchen and Daddy (Tim) was in bed having a lie-in. The morning was quite hectic as Mummy (Alli) and Ellie were busy making sandwiches for the party and then Mummy (Alli), Ellie & Emilie started preparing a roast dinner so that we could eat that at lunch time before we went to the party and we also had to watch Daniel open his birthday presents (see Dan’s Birthday post for details).

We all had our roast dinner apart from Finley who had mashed banana, advacado and yoghurt which when we tried it was actually quite pleasant! After the roast we went to Dan’s party and had lots of fun and then we came home. When we got back from the party we all went into the back garden and watched Daniel open more presents, then he disappeared with Beth and we stayed to show Auntie Alex, Finley & Ellie how good we are on our roller skates and we also had a go on Dan’s new skateboard, Emilie did quite well as she only managed to fall off once! Daddy (Tim) had a go as well and was trying to do some tricks but he didn’t have a lot of space so was unable to show us his full repertoire.

Unfortunately rather quicker than we wanted it was time for baths again, at first we thought Mummy (Alli) and Daddy (Tim) were kidding as it was still light and Emilie even plucked up the courage to say “Why are we going to bed when it is still light? We go to bed when it is dark.” Daddy (Tim) explained that it was because the clocks had gone forward and despite us still having our doubts we went and got ready for bed as we knew we all had to get up early in the morning for school.

Monday morning arrived all too soon and it was the usual manic Monday, we are sad that when we get home this evening Auntie Alex, Finley & Ellie will be gone but we are happy that we spent such a brilliant weekend with them, it is times like these when we wished we owned Airwolf so that we could go on flying visits to see our family in the south!

Thanks Auntie Alex, Finley and Ellie for coming to see us, we hope to see you all again soon.