A week with Daddy

This week has been quite different because Daddy had a week off work which was meant to be for a holiday where we were to go camping.  However, Mummy got a large interpreting job that seems to be going on for 2 or 3 weeks and so Daddy has been looking after me instead.  He has taken me to all my usual toddler groups and for other trips out to Nana and Granddad and Moors Valley.

Yesterday I had a very busy day and after Twinkle Toes, Messy Play, lunch and a runaround at The Hub and then some cooking at home....we went to Moors Valley.  I went running like crazy around the whole lake, finding sticks and leaves to play with and there was a big herd of cows to see.

Here I am pointing out the cows

And again!

I did lots of running

I got very hot and took my hat off to cool down

Here I am looking for motorcars on the road to the golf club

Heavy Horse Farm Park

Today I was a lucky boy as I went to Nana and Granddad's for a while and had some lunch there when Mummy and Daddy came back from Tae Kwon-Do.

I then went to the Heavy Horse Farm Park.  As soon as I went in I got very excited by a shetland pony with a small carriage and I went for a ride.  There were huge horses there too and all sorts of other animals, including donkeys and goats.  To be honest some of them were a bit scary and the goats started fighting, which was exciting.  I went in another carriage drawn by a heavy horse and then on a cool tractor ride .  By that time I was really zonked and so tired that I fell asleep almost straight away in the car.  What a lovely day!

Very scary goats!

This is me in the mini carriage

...and the big carriage

This is the big horse that towed us along

Here I am brushing a shetland pony

Donkeys

I had a go on a trampoline

Kune Kune piggy

Me driving an old Land Rover

These horses were a bit too friendly sometimes

Here I am running out of battery power on the tractor ride!

Saturday 16th June

Today was very interesting.  Mummy left very early this morning to go to London and Daddy had to get me ready to visit Nana and Granddad and load all my stuff, plus his Tae Kwon-Do stuff and camera gear, into his car.  He dropped me at Nana's then went to a tae Kwon-Do grading to help out and take some pictures.

I had a great time at Nana's and when Daddy got back I was eating my lunch.   Daddy dressed up smart today which is quite unusual for him.  He got presented with his big Black Belt certificates.  They almost took off in the wind when he took them out of the car at home!

Daddy then took me and cousin James to Moors valley , which was very exciting.  The weather was awful as usual, but it didn't stop us having fun...after all I am British and have a Queen, so I have to be weather proof.

It was brilliant having James there because he showed me how to climb and we had loads of fun.  We did almost the whole play trail including the two new features.  I surprised my Daddy by climbing up the full height of the Funnel Trap feature on the rope lattice.

Here we are on the Funnel Trap

Up I go!!

This is a giant egg at the Bird's Nest Feature

Here is JB doing a giant jump while I watch

I love the Tree Top Trail and did it all by myself today

Queen's Jubilee Weekend

When Daddy was off work at the start of June  it was the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.  Daddy says she is a very nice, hard working lady and having her makes our country different from all the others.  She does look nice like Nana, but is quite old.  She must be nice because she gave my Daddy and all the other Police and Soldiers in service a medal for her Jubilee.  That's a lot of medals and it must have taken her ages to wrap them all up!

Anyway, everybody seemed to celebrate and I had red, white and blue balloons tied to my pushchair.  Mummy, Daddy, I and some friends of mine went to a nice Jubilee celebration on the green at Verwood.

Having a picnic

These grown up men were driving about on giant toys.  Daddy says boys need toys.  I think he is right.

Here I am cheering the Queen and eating a chip at the same time

Mummy got me some second-hand mega blocks which were an instant hit as there was a horse and I'm obsessed with horses!  A horse is called a Yockhe in my language.

Here I am at home having some fun.  I have lots of big teeth now

June is here!

We are getting well into the summer now.

On Thursday I went to Nana and Granddad's for few hours because Daddy was at work and Mummy had night school.  The next day I was making some amazing animal noises and Daddy said I sounded like a group of monkeys and a herd of wildebeest.  He wondered what I had been watching on the television!  Well, it was a really great program full of wild animals.  I was also very excited about a ball that Nana and Granddad got me.

I went to Christina's today (my childminder) and had a lovely time because she took us to Honeybrook Farm.

When I came home I went outside with Mummy and Daddy as they had been busy in the garden today and were finishing off some work.  I went crazy and was running about, playing in my car and with my ball.  Daddy gave me a ride on my scooter and showed me a beetle that looked like a wasp.  I love being outdoors and never want to come back inside.

The garden looks nice now with huge poppies in the beds, foxgloves coming out and some lovely iris's.  Daddy was excited because 5 big dragonflies have emerged in the last 2 nights.  He did a lot of cleaning in the pond today.

Here I am looking small next to our giant poppies!

I kept picking some nice little blue flowers

This can was a bit heavy as Daddy had filled it with water!  I help Mummy water the plants most days

This is my Mum...Daddy said she was admiring me again!

Here I am monkeying about in the greenhouse

Exbury Gardens & Beaulieu

Today was a lovely hot day and we went to Exbury Gardens.  It was a very nice place but I was the youngest there...most people looked very old and had sticks, chariots and buggies to get about in.  Some of them seemed to like me though and were nice to me.

I went on a brilliant real steam train, which was very exciting and after that I ran around on a lovely big lawn where we had a picnic.  This all made me rather tired so I went to sleep for a while.  Later we went to Beaulieu where I was very excited to see lots of horses, donkeys and a very cross goose that made lots of noise.

When we came back we collected fish and chips in Ringwood and ate them at Nana and Granddad's house.  I was very grubby and very happy...what a great day!

I got very excited when the train arrived and climbed up the barriers to have a good look

I wasn't sure about some of these horses...they wanted my sandwich!

Granddad wanted a photo with my Daddy in it for a change!  They are very rare.  Most photos have me in them!