Eggs

Scarlett woke horribly early at 6.20am this morning. I staggered down to her room and tried to persuade her to let me into her bed to snuggle up with her a bit longer but she was having none of it, so together we crept into the lounge to see whether the Easter bunny had been. He had indeed and she spotted a little cuddly rabbit that the Thank You Neighbours had included in the piles of stuff they’d brought over for the children so she was happy to come back to bed and bring that with her.

But not for long 🙁 By 7am we were all up and the children were gathering together the various hidden eggs from around the room.

We had breakfast and then the children did some colouring amd mask making from some Shaun the Sheep printouts Ady had done for them.

Then we got out some egg decorating kits I’d got for them which required blown eggs. That’s not quite as easy as it sounds is it?! 😆

We mixed up the dye and dipped the four we’d managed to blow ready to do more with maybe tomorrow
(note viewing choice in the background 🙂 ). And all this before about 9.00am!

Then we headed off out car boot sale hunting. We went to the one in Tesco’s car boot sale – I think Tesco’s all over the place were holding boot sales in the car parks today and this one was massive. We got loads, most of it to be put away for presents including loads of jigsaw puzzles, an X box game, more construction toys and some Polly Pocket stuff. I also in the last few moments spotted a bag with a Barbie duvet cover and pillowcase and a set of curtains. We recently got Davies some W&G bedding on ebay and Tarly has been angling for some Barbie bedding ever since. She also had curtains which had been Davies’ up in Manchester in her bedroom too. It was marked up at a fiver but he took £2.50 for the lot and chucked in a lampshade too, so her bedroom is well and truly Barbie-d up 🙂 Not where I’d like to be waking up each morning admittedly, but she loves it 🙂
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We had lunch (roast lamb, it was lovely 🙂 Davies spent some time asking me why the mother sheep didn’t protect her lambs when people killed them so we could eat them, but in a very interested rather than emotional way and then he complimented me on how lovely the lamb had been after he’d eaten it all :lol:. That’s my boy! 😉 ) and after a brief interlude in the garden with some rather raucous water fights (that was just me and Ady actually, the children cheered us on rather than got involved!) we loaded Davies’ bike into the car and drove down to a different stretch of beach. It was really busy down there but Davies managed a bit of a run on his bike and should easily manage to get the stablilizers off this Summer I reckon 🙂 Tarly walked along a very high wall holding my hand.
and then we parked the bike and went down to the sea where predictably the children got wet, took their clothes off and got wetter, played in the sea until their teeth were chattering and then we had to dress them in an odd variety of clothing (Davies – wearing Ady’s sweatshirt as a dress coupled with his shoes but no socks) / be piggy backed back to the car (Tarly – which meant my back got all wet from her soggy clothes.) but they did have a ball 🙂

We came home and the children had a hot bath to warm back up and then I used up the remaining blown eggs (I’d made yorkshire puddings with some of them at lunchtime) to make pancakes. The children had them with easter egg chocolate melted on top. Then I popped out to collect a camp kitchen from a freecycler. It is very in need of attention but a good going over with a wire brush and a coat of hammerite should fix it and coming from freecycle it was well within our budget ;).