Half Term Holidays
It doesn’t seem like 2 minutes since Dan, Em & Josh returned to school after Christmas, but this week it has been half term holidays.
Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) were also off work which meant we got to spend some quality time together and as always we had an action packed few days!
Monday
Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) had arranged for us to spend the afternoon at Auntie Jennifer’s and Uncle Mike’s as it has been a while since we had enjoyed an afternoon of fun with our cousins Amy & Callum.
As soon as we arrived we left the adults to chat and we went off to play together. Play was interrupted part way through so that we could all feast on some delicious pizzas that Auntie Jennifer cooked for us.
Once lunch was out of the way we went back to the playing, the girls were playing school (despite being on holiday) and the boys spent the afternoon setting up the Thomas rack that Josh had kindly given to Callum.
We had a brilliant afternoon, when it was time to go home Amy tried to sneak into our car so that she could come with us and have a sleepover, apparently this is something that Mum & Auntie JEnnifer used to do when they were younger to!
We can’t wait for the Easter holidays as we are going to see Amy & Callum again as Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) have said we can have Amy & Callum over for a sleepover!
Tuesday
Daniel chose Tuesday’s activity – he decided that he would like to go to the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester.
We spent a couple of hours walking around the museum and learning about the history of Manchester including walking through a very smelly victorian sewer. We also looked at some trains (both our Grandad’s would be impressed) and then we went to look at the planes and a helicopter in the Air Museum across the road.
Once we had exhausted the exhibits we set off to find somewhere we could have lunch and en route we came across a model shop which we couldn’t ignore! We spent about half an hour looking around at all the models and Josh decided to spend some of his birthday money on a Harry Potter train and Mr Weasley’s flying car and Emilie spent some of her birthday money on a flower power VW camper van.
By now hunger was getting the better of all of us so we headed off on our lunch search again and by sheer fluke we cam across The Olive Press, which used to be our favourite restaurant in Warrington until it closed down, so we went in their for lunch and ate some delicious food.
When we were all suitably stuffed we went home and spent the rest of the afternoon playing with our new toys before enjoying delicious pancakes for dinner, as it was shrove tuesday!
Wednesday
Josh chose Wednesday’s activity – he chose to go and spend a few hours in Jellybeans.
As usual we couldn’t get our shoes and coats off fast enough once we arrived, we were trying to take them off before we had even found a table for Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) to sit at! We soon located a table and then we were off tearing around Jelly beans at breakneck speed and generally having a brilliant time!
We had a game of hide and seek with Daniel trying to find us – it was great fun as Jelly beans is massive so it makes it really hard to find us.
After about an hour we all returned to Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) as we were in desparate need of refreshments. We quickly quaffed our drinks and ate some lunch before we ran off again to continue playing on the slides and climbing the climbing wall!
After 3 hours we were exhausted and so we decided it was time to go home, exhausted but happy!
Thursday
Before todays actitivty chosen by Emilie we went to the hospital with Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) as they had to see the Consultant about our new baby. We sat very quietly in the waiting room and then when it time for the appointment we all trooped into the consultation room!
The Consultant was very nice and he spoke to Mum (Alli) and Dad (Tim) about the baby whilst we spoke to the nurse, Emilie was very impressed that the nurse had a pink stethoscope!
Then the Consultant told Mum (Alli) to lie on the bed so that we could listen to Baby’s heartbeat. He told us that the first sound we heard, which was a whistling nosie, was our little brother or sister having a wee! This made us laugh. Then he found Mum’s heartbeat and we listened to that and then all of a sudden we heard a noise like a steam train puffing along and he told us that was our Baby’s heartbeat – it was very fast! We were all very excited that we had heard the heartbeat.
When we had finished at the hospital we went to Splashzone, a new indoor water play area. Splashzone hasn’t been open for very long so this was our first visit, but it definitely won’t be the last!
We arrived at opening time and there was a very big queue so we didn’t know if we were going to get in but we did! We got changed into our swimming clothes and then spent a couple of hours sliding down water slides and running through lots of different water jets – it was lots of fun!
Emilie was very brave and went on the big waterslide, that went outside the buidling, Josh wasn’t quite so brave he just stuck to the smaller slide, despite both Dan and Em offering to go with him on the big one.
After a couple of hours of non-stop running and splashing we were exhausted so we got changed and headed home for lunch. We decided that we wanted tomato soup for lunch which Josh managed to spill all down the front of his white t-shirt – oops!!
We spent the afternoon playing inside and oustide and then sadly Josh had to go back to Wrexham this evening but it isn’t long until the Easter holidays and then we will all be together again for another action packed week.
Friday
After a fun filled week Mum, Dan & Em decided to have a lazy day so we stayed at home, tidied bedrooms and relaxed!
We have had a brilliant half term and can’t wait for the Easter holidays!!