food & rain

spring rain

zach going on his rocket ship to the moon

at a local toddler group - where they made lanterns and served up noodles with chopsticks for chinese new year. here is martha with her buddy isaac

making bread - zach loved playing with his bowl of flour - driving his digger utensils through it

the watermeadows

sam took zach for a bike ride (zach on the back of sam's bike) through the watermeadows near by. zach loved it!

discovering Marwell Zoo

Marwell Zoo is 15minutes drive from us. We were so impressed with it we have become members and are already going regularly to slowly explore different areas of the zoo and ride the tractor ride around the zoo.

Here are the giraffes - seeking refuge from the cold.

watching the anteaters at feeding time... extraordinary creatures!

sam

spot the difference

together

lovely munchkins

a local favourite walk

at the pet shop

trying out the dog kennels! i had to climb in myself to extract Martha when it was time to go. a few weird stares from the serious pet-loving-shoppers.

so i always blog on the happy beautiful moments. This shopping trip (photo below) ended in both children crying and shouting at the top of their lungs at the cash register - while i over-heated in my winter coat and held up the long queue behind me emptying out my wallet to find the lost voucher which was the whole point of the shopping trip!! The vast supermarket went silent and stared at the two out of control children and beetroot-red disorganised mother! I decided to not look up and get out as quickly as possible!!

Martha

reading to baby

putting baby to bed

helping mummy mop

LOVES sitting and looking through books

finally getting to do some baking with Mummy - at 2 yrs old!!

mmmm

washing up

watching tv

going out

exploring

watching cars go under the bridge

doing a "wee wee" like her older brother

loving the occasional cold bike ride - more of this in the spring/summer

Zachary

loves exploring

building train tracks

Zach was particularly proud of this one he made completely by himself

drawing trains

sticking animals to the wall (which were then eaten by the rabbit!)

cleaning the windows

bath time

sebbie's birthday party

Zach & I (Becca) took a special trip to London for Sebbie's fabulous birthday party.

Here is zach on the underground escalator

After the amazing and very funny magician, we went in to the garden for games and Sebbie's wonderful S/5 Mario cake

Anita explaining the significance of the cake looking like an "S" AND a "5"

yum!

pass-the-parcel

our train home was cancelled so we ate dinner at Burger King in the station while we waited for the next one :)

zach loved the whole day out - what a treat and thanks Sebbie!