Over to Chris and Julie’s today where we left Chris and Ady with the children and Julie and I went to the Chichester NCT nearly new sale together. We managed to be very ladylike about the fact we were both searching in the girls 3-4 years area for Maisie and Scarlett although as they have different colouring and tastes in clothes it would probably be rare we’d select the same item for them both anyway. She bought loads more than me anyway, particularly as I really don’t need any more clothes for Tarly atm. I got her two summer dresses and three jumpers/fleece tops for Davies, an ELC Monkey business game that Freya has and Davies liked and a brand new wooden labyrinth. Oh and two Bible books (The Easter Story and The Good Samaritan) and a make paper animals by cutting them out of the book and glueing them together. All for a tenner 🙂 The game had already been played with loads this afternoon, as has the labyrinth, which is numbered with holes 1-45 so must have some great maths value too. 🙂
We went back to their’s for lunch, where all the children were playing out in the garden and then went off to a local farm for a lambing weekend. It was possibly slightly oversold and the fact it was so cold and so windy made us less likely to stop and gaze in wonder at nature so beautifully presented before our very eyes and more likely to have a quick look at the animals and move swiftly onto the next ones. There were rabbits, guinea pigs and rats to stroke, a hen with very new chicks to pet, lambs and piglets to stroke, cows and horses to feed and so on. The children did enjoy it but were as keen as us to keep moving so we were only there about an hour. There was a shetland pony giving pony and trap rides but it was just too cold to queue or ride so we said goodbye to Julie and came home via McDonalds.
We had a couple of games of Monkey Business and then I went to Sainsburys to get next week’s food shopping while Ady bathed the children. An early night for both of them (D was awake past 10pm last night which is really late for him and they were both up before 7am today) and I think we are fairly inclined to follow suit sometime in the next half hour or so ourselves.