The Toddler Diaries 'weekend away'

Had a busy weekend. Headed over to Reading on Saturday afternoon to leave Josh and Bethany so we could go gallivanting in the evening. Gallavanting isn’t really the word, but we did go out for a barbecue and weren’t back until after 10pm, that’s late for us. Caleb wasn’t so impressed with the whole barbecue thing, well actually I think it was the Eurovision song contest that put him off, so slept in his moses basket. Spent the night at my parents house. Remember looking at the clock at 5am and thinking, only an hour to go. I was right, well almost, 6:10 am the pitter patter of tiny feet on the stairs, actually that’s not true, more like a herd of elephants shouting “we woke up”. Josh and Bethany only have on and off settings, there’s no gradual waking up process. Once they’re awake that’s it they’re on and it’s full volume. Believe me it sounds very loud at that time of the morning. Daniel conveniently was sleeping in the loft so chose to ignore the dawn chorous and had a lie in. My parents were interested to discover they could be ready for church by 8am with such an early start, bet they don’t try it again next weekend though!!

We lunched at pizza hut (we had a voucher) . Sorry no comparisons on muffin prices but lots of ice cream and dolly mixtures. We were all tired after this so headed back to Watford. Bethany and I started stripping wall paper (it was something to do) which she seemed to enjoy but it is to quote “very hard work mummy, I’m not quite there yet. You need to be very patient, incredibly patient” I’m not quite sure if she understands what she says when she comes out with these statements but it’s amusing to listen to.