A beautiful busy day...

The boys set about a little bit of work building and filling a woodstore and lots of fun together on Saturday as they made the most of some glorious sunshine.

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My first lunch!

Ok mummy...I trust you but this is strange.

What do I do with it now?

OK this is quite good... can I have a go?

Looks like sweet potato was a success today! We've given in and started on solids a little earlier than 6mths as she is crawling around so much, burning her milk calories and she has also tried taking food of my plate!

I'm sitting! Well sort of!

The problem is I want to be crawling and getting stuck under armchairs!!!

Out for lunch!

Thank you David for a Lovely lunch out at the Penny Farthing on Sunday. We all tucked into a roast at the carvery and the children hungry as ever, were on their best behaviour.

Campanology

A lovely day was had when on Saturday together with Mark, Charlotte and David we joined Tony Lees and some of the Sherwood youth ringers as they toured some Lincolnshire bells! We started off at Caythorpe, the children went up the bellfry to see the ringers in action David stayed on terra firma and listened to a variety of "methods" such as: Grandsire and Stedman (Triples and Caters),Plain + Little Bob (Major and Royal), Rutland, London and Belfast Major and Yorkshire Royal.

Heydour was a ground floor ring which allowed David to chat to the ringers between rings.
We said our goodbyes at StDenys Sleaford having thoroughly enjoyed the somewhat tiring afternoon!

My birthday

Today is my birthday, can you see how many candles on my cake?

Mamine and Papytail took me to "Crazy Bongos" for a special birthday treat yesterday lots of ball pools, slides, levels to climb.... I slept like a log last night!!!
This morning we left them behind at Four Acres and went to walk with dinosaurs!!!! It was a BIG surprise and we had a GREAT time! (I think they may have been a little scared if they'd come!)

Brave Joseph

Well here he is, our brave bunny with his ever faithful smile!

An early start this morning as he had to be in Lincoln Hospital by 0800, and lucky us he was first on the list! So after a chat with the anaesthetist and consultant Joseph had the pleasure of bed travel and a stretcher flight to the operating theatre. He was very brave as they put in his line and as the anesthetic went in he was asked to count down from sixteen.... He barely managed fifteen and was out! A little teary I went back via a prayer stop at the chapel, ( I found it really comforting that yesterday's gospel reading was that of Jesus healing a deaf man)to wait on the ward where Leah was snoozing. The operation went well and thankfully there were no swollen adenoids so it wasn't as involved, and after resting , eating and drinking (and playing on the playroom's playstation!) He was discharged.
Tired, he will have another day off school to recover fully from the medication. But other than that back to his cheerful self.
Thank you to Penny who looked after Benjamin for the day and Cath who picked up Isaac from school at lunchtime and looked after him for the afternoon. It was a great comfort to know they were being cared for.

First day back to school.

First day of term photo

Smart and eager for school

Well the boys have started a new school year, Matthew is in year 4, Joseph year 3 and Isaac is a "Robin" in nursery five mornings a week including staying for lunch! Let's hope for a successful year full of fun and learning.

Big girl!

Here I am in my big cot!! I'm in with my brothers now... that way I won't miss on all the fun!

Grapevine

Well we just got back from our camping weekend (Fri-Tues)@ Grapevine, a Christian worship festival set in Lincoln show ground....

Packed worship meetings with over 5000 in the Big Top!

Absolutely BRILL! The children had their own worship groups to go to, Jelly Beans for Isaac(learning about Joseph's journey), Kingdom Network for Joseph (finding out who is God?)and Powerpack for Matthew (cre8,activ8 getting them to be comfortable with their faith and even blessing people). The littlies stayed with us and although there was an optional Sparkies group for them with parent, we perferred to all go to the Big Top for some Wake up smile!Life looks funny being in a green tent! uplifting worship (waiting now for the preordered CD to come so we can share the music again)and some pretty good preaching. This year's theme was "Forward" and all the talks focused on how to help the church revival by looking forward and doing rather than harping back at yesteryear.... some sound ideas and now up to us to live it day by day; I pray that the momentum we've built up during this refreshing weekend will help us go "forward" as we set out to carry on God's will in our community.