To the Boerderij (The Farm)

Andrew went on his big trip on Monday morning to Viersprong Boederij with school. After mummy spent all day Sunday ironing his name onto every single thing that went with him to the farm, including pants, socks and pillow, he was all ready to go on his first trip overnight without his family!

He was a very excited little boy waiting for us to get ready to go, so excited he couldn't eat his breakfast. Papa as always was a slow coach at getting ready to go and we finally left the house at 8.00am to take Andrew meet his friends. When we got the farm and Papa parked the car we were greeted by the biggest chickens we have ever seen, even Papa was impressed. "Do they feed them little boys?" Papa asked Andrew! We delivered him safely inside to the teacher and his other class mates and our parting words were ".. now remember to listen to you juf and have lots of fun. I love you! Bye bye" and that was that. My little boy was away.

The house was very quiet at dinner time with just Papa, Mummy and Charlie. I kept wondering what he was doing and if he was having fun. Of course he was! Even the next morning it was so quiet without Andrew. At 2.30pm I reminded Papa to pick Andrew up. 4.00pm came and I was waiting patiently for them to come home. A few moments later the door bust open and in came a tired little boy. Papa said that when he met Andrew at the farm he was in a trailer at the back of a tractor but when he saw his Papa he started to cry! Even when he came in he said to me that he missed me!

At the farm he made some very yummy bread and got to bring it home to share with us. He also milked a cow, cleaned out some stables and fed the animals but it wasn't all hard work he also got to ride the donkey! At night I don't think they got much sleep as all the children slept in the same room with bunk beds. Needless to say he was in bed early when he came home and slept in on Wednesday morning as school hard an exceptional closure but I think it was a day off for the teachers to recover!

Overall he says it was fun but missed his Mummy, Papa and little brother!

Andrew is on the far right, talking to the little girl.

Something to make you smile!

Look what my little baby has discovered he can do! I can't even blame Andrew for this one. We keep asking Charlie to point to parts on his body and he will point to them and of course then he found 2 little holes perfect for little fingers.



A funny story, last night when we were waiting for the main electric garage door to open we all lined up to race down the hill to our garage. (Andrew and I do this everyday coming home from school.) There we waited and the door slowly creapt up, Andrew eager to win thought the door was open enough for him and cycled straight into it, crash. Of course we just laughed. Needless to say Andrew won the race.

Maybe it was one of those things were you had to be there!

Where has February gone?

I cannot believe it is almost March and I haven't written anything. First I was ill then Robert went away and then we were busy doing silly things and the time has just flown by. We haven't really done very much. Even though Feb is the shortest month it sometimes seems to last forever with all the dull weather and not much to do. Today we went out for a long cycle even though it was meant to be a short ride. We made a wrong trn somewhere and ended up a lot further than we thought, oops!

Andrew is plodding along but getting very excited about going away with school to the farm. His class and the class above are going for a night away at a working farm on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th March. The first night away own his own!

Charlie has discovered welly boots. He brings them to me every morning to put on and will not take them off until bed time.


Here he is in his boots. He is so grown up lately and very bossy, we have already got the terrible two's tantrums! He copies everything Andrew does and they love to play with each other. They disappear away to their room and all I can hear is them laughing.





Here is a picture Papa took this morning and I can't believe how big they have both gotten. My big boys.

Andrew's 8th Birthday!

Today, the 18th January is Andrew's 8th birthday. Wow 8 years old. It started off with a loud shout coming from the boys room, 'It's my birthday today!' No sooner said than a little excited boy came flying out of his room declaring he wanted eggs and bacon for breakfast. A little pile of presents awaited while mummy made fried eggs, bacon and toast for her little men.

Andrew got some lovely clothes from Oma and Opa, a t-shirt from Auntie Jilly and Uncle Steven, and some wonderful socks from Auntie Stephanie. From mummy and papa and Charlie some new figures for the work in progress castle build.

Later in the post came another parcel from Nanny and Grandad that was excitedly ripped open. When Papa came home from work we all had some yummy cake and watched A Night In The Museum (a present from Nanny and Grandad). It all came to an end too quickly and soon it was time for bed. But tomorrow there is a party .....

Saturday fun

Here is Andrew starting to build his new castle using his bricks that Santa brought. Of course Papa had to 'help'. Andrew sat for about 1.5hrs working away until he was told to go to bed. Not long after Andrew went to bed Papa was sitting in the same chair building as well, what a pair of boys!

I was also able to pursuade Papa to help me make some felt food for the boys. Here he is working away. I stopped to take the picture but I did help!

Here was the end result. With thanks from Andrew for the design on Papa's face!