We’ve had a fairly busy few weeks so I don’t feel too bad about having a quiet afternoon today with Moana, princess dresses and some sweets. 

Henry’s birthday was last week, it actually feels a month ago already! We celebrated by hitting the soft play (Polly taking this too literally after tackling the death slide!), heading to Nanny & Pops’ for sausage sandwiches then finishing off with a cheeky Frankie & Benny’s. The kids got very excited by the other birthdays being celebrated in there and on the second round of the ‘happy birthday’ cake parade they both jumped onto their seats and did a dance, much to the amusement of the tables around us! Safe to say we decided against bringing any more attention to our table so ate our shared sundae quickly without more singing! 

We headed up to Suffolk later in the week for a couple of days. According to my photos all we really did was eat a lot! We did have a good trip and although we’ve probably each gained a stone in weight it was nice to get away for a bit. Seb decided to let us know he’d learnt a new word and shouted ‘chick-en’ every time we drove past a KFC and Polly put on several dance shows to anyone who sat still long enough. Sadly we didn’t get time to see everyone we wanted and are already trying to plan a summer trip up. 

Finally getting his ‘chick-en’ on the journey home!

We did have a slightly eventful trip home that we could have done without! The car obviously quite liked a certain stretch of the M5 so it thought 11pm in the rain was a good time to get acquainted with this bridge and it broke down. The kids were delighted when a tow truck (a.k.a Paw Patrol) turned up to rescue us an hour later. After several phone calls to the R.A.C we then found ourselves being dropped off 40 miles down the road at the most depressing service station known to man, awaiting a second truck to tow us the remaining 40 miles, thinking it would be a short wait. It was not. At 3:30AM they got annoyed with my phone calls trying to find out how low down we now were on the rescue list and they sent a taxi for the kids and I. Henry and Siegfried (the car) turned up back in Sidmouth at around 8AM. So not the best journey home and not surprising that this was the sight in our house on Sunday morning…

Anyway car mended, sleep caught up on and the usual chaos is restored! 

I was really lucky a couple of weeks ago to attend my friend’s (Pirate Laura!) passing out ceremony from the Navy, the weather may have been awful but it was still an amazing experience and a proud moment for all of us who journeyed down to the base. 

Anyway I kind of want to watch the last bit of the film so I’ll sign off now with one final picture of the sight that might greet you if you leave a play date without realising that one child has snuck the other child a chocolate digestive into the car…