We've been oh so busy. Thursday to Friday noon in Clackmannan, braving the outside world twice, painting, playing with water, climbing, baking. Then straight to North Ayrshire for a night camping on a colleague's farm, to give a proper goodbye to 3 amazing colleagues who are the last in a way too long list of recent redundancies. Cubling was manically and frantically excited, the kind of excitement that is impossible to control, about seeing animals, sleeping in a tent (a first), a pumpkin head, combine harvesters, tractors, mud, kittens, massive dogs, cosy fires, a trampoline tent, cutting logs with an axe, lighting a real pyre. Next visit to another Ayrshire town to see granny and grampa, a shopping spree, finally crash landing in bed. It was all good. Particularly last night's sleep to recover from it all and Cubling's boundless energy.
I have a pile of blogposts to come, more than making up for my recent silence, but to start off with, here's our weekend in pictures:
Cubling dressing up as Mr Kickeriki
Guess who was the first up in the morning?
Making leaf prints with collected leaves. Cubling got really into this, while her cousin is more into letters and numbers, so he counted up to 100 and demanded the numbers to be painted one by one. He's only 2 3/4...
Making (and eating) fairy cakes
Too many cooks spoil the broth? Rubbish. And who has climbed onto the table again, licked the butter tub, stole some dough and tested what would happen to an egg if you dropped it from the table, while her cousin patiently mixes the ingredients to a soft dough?
The attack of the one-eyed killer kitten.
Guess who was the first up in the morning?
Making (and eating) fairy cakes
The attack of the one-eyed killer kitten.
3 comments:
Sounds like an amazing time! Great chicken picture, and thank you so much for finishing with a kitten. You can never go wrong with a kitten.
That sounds like a wonderful weekend - I love the leaf pictures (might have to 'borrow' that idea for Toddlergirl this week)
Oh yes, kittens. Had to make sure they didn't get too squeezed by toddler hands, and cute as they are, they make me sneeze.
It was a great weekend, and the leaf prints worked a treat (and easier for me, for once I didn't have to draw a combine harvester or a train station).
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