Horsing Around

Today the kids went to see Suzanne and her horse, Red.

Happy Birthday

The kids were invited to 3 birthday parties in 2 days. To start with I was determined that they wouldn't eat anything that would send them wild, but by the end of the 2 days this proved to be impossible.

The first of the parties was Heather's, who was 4. This was held at her house and featured traditional party games and face painting.

Facepainting courtesy of Naomi...bargain!

Next came Joshua and Dylan's joint party at Snappys. Josh was 4 and Dylan 1. How cost effective to have your children's birthdays close together.

Then came Bobby's party. Bobby, aged 3, is a friend of Kaitlyn's from a toddler group I take her to. Kaitlyn always gets excited about seeing him, but then spends an hour ignoring him. Luckily James was invited too. Bobby had a Disco party at the Reculver Club, James said it was the best party ever! Unfortunately lots of sweets were consumed and the day after both kids were bouncing of the walls!

Dancing to 'Superman'!

Playing musical Chairs

Howlett's Wild Animal Park

I was off work this week so had lots planned to do with the kids. One of the things they really wanted to do was go to Howletts. It's quite expensive to get in usually, but I used Tesco Clubcard vouchers to pay and therefore it was a quarter of the price. I still managed to spend a fortune however on ice-creams, face painting and gift shop.

The lemurs were probably our favorite as you could get really close to them.





It was a really nice sunny day and the kids had a lot of fun. We went with our friends Jo and Bradley. The kids were exhausted by the end of the day and had a very early night.







The face painting was quite a rip off - £4 each

Easter Party

There was an Easter party at the church today. Activities included egg decorating, making chocolate nests an egg hunt and a hat parade. James was disappointed that he didn't win the hat parade, however as his hat was a minimal effort job leftover from last year that really wasn't surprising...life's hard kid, get over it!

He did get over it pretty quickly and we all had a good time.

East Kent Railway

I took the kids for a day out to the East Kent Railway at Shepherdswell. They were having and Easter egg hunt and promised a chocolate egg for every fare paying child. We arrived just before 11, paid for our tickets and the kids were both issued with an Easter egg - flake for James and caramel for Kaitlyn. The Easter egg hunt consisted of several questions which were much to difficult for the kids (and me!), but as we already had the chocolate we weren't too concerned.

We boarded the old train and set of on the journey - it doesn't go far but it goes through a tunnel and has to pass manually operated barrier. A man gets of the train, opens the barriers, the train moves through and waits for him to close the barriers and get back on the train. Back at Shepherdwell the kids had a go on the mini railway, which is a tiny engine that pulls a small carriage along a mini track. It sits about 3 people.

We had a look round the station, had at picnic and then went on the train again. James got to ride up the front with the driver, which pleased him. All-in-all it was a good day out.

Hat Parade

It was the annual Ducklings Playgroup Easter Hat Parade today. Kaitlyn's hat was a symbol of having a mum 'who works outside of the home' i.e. last year's hat fished out of the cupboard at the last minute, with half the decorations missing/broken.