Birthday Weekend
Yesterday was A’s birthday and he had the day off work, so we’ve had a nice long weekend.
On Saturday we spent most of the day at home, only going out briefly to the library. We did some stuff in the garden and A cut the grass. M painted his model aircraft that he’s been building with A’s help - think it’s going to take a few coats of paint. We had a gorgeous roast beef dinner at tea time - but can’t think of anything else we did.
On Sunday we were up and off out to Lincolnshire to visit friends we hadn’t seen in a year or two. They also go geocaching (do much more than us) so we did one of their caches when we first got up there, walking along the side of an old canal and then scrambling down a banking to find the microcache (no drugs luckily!). We went to theirs for a cuppa and then out to the pub for Sunday lunch. We haven’t been out for a pub lunch for ages and it was very good, though L was restless and wanted to wander. He’s not been himself the last few days and has a lingering cold which is possibly more a reaction to teething, but he’s snuffly and a bit irritable.
The plan was that we’d go and do another cache with our friends that starts at the pub, but while we were eating it started to pour with rain and it was so heavy we abandoned caching plans and just went back to our friends’ house for the afternoon. They have 2 boys a few years older than M and so he and they played on their PS2 showing M how to get through some higher levels of the Lego Star Wars 2 game. L roamed about and seemed to especially like something in their bathroom and playing with the doorstop in the toilet. They have a dog and L gradually got braver about approaching her.
A did some male bonding over laptops and GPSrs (he bought their old one as a birthday pressie) and mapping software and I chatted to S about schools and teaching assistants and her OU course. It was nice to catch up again.
On the way home L fell asleep in the car (thank goodness cos he was getting fed up of the car seat poor lad) and we couldn’t decide what to do for tea so called in and picked up a Chinese takeaway. L woke up in time to eat some prawn crackers but not much else. M wanted to play his Lego Star Wars 2 after tea so stupidly (given he’d played on computer games all afternoon) we let him have 20 mins but he had a meltdown about not being able to do it like he had on the PS2 and shouted and raged about and got told to come off the computer and then he got even worse and we all had a big row until he’d gone to bed. So not a very good end to the day.
Yesterday I woke up first for a change (rare to wake before M) and decided to try making Chelsea buns as a special thing for a birthday breakfast, thinking A would lie in til 9 or so, but he was next up at 7.30am. The buns were done by about 9.20am which would have been OK if he’d stayed in bed, but we had already had breakfast by then so had them for elevenses instead. After opening cards etc we went out to Thetford to look around and do a cache down there trying out A’s new GPSr. I don’t see the need to ever go to Thetford again and if you’ve never been you’re honestly not missing a thing. It was like Aldershot only more so. On the plus side I did find some undies and socks I liked for L’s Christmas stocking in Woolworths (one of those traditional things we always put in).
We finished the cache and decided there was nowhere in Thetford we fancied going for lunch so we ended up driving to a garden centre near there where the food is OK and had a late lunch and a look around, then came home for pizza for tea. M went out to Cubs and learnt about knots and that was about it.
