I feel like I’ve been busy over the last week, but when I stop and think I haven’t actually done that much.
Danny is still very much enjoying ‘big’ school, and has been eating all his school dinners. I’m not sure about these ‘healthy’ school dinners though, he’s seems to have had either cake or ice cream every day for afters. He came home the other day with his jumper covered in glue, he told me he’d been making a cot out of various bits and pieces, which comes complete with a trumpet to wake the baby up! Just what every cot needs. He brought it home yesterday.

Daniel's cot complete with trumpet
I think you need a pretty good imagination, apparently the upright bit is the trumpet.
It’s been glorious weather here for over a week now. It was really hot on Saturday so I gave the Eglu a wash, and we invited my parents round for a BBQ. We hadn’t seen them for a week as they’d been on holiday in Devon, so it was nice to catch up and hear all about it. Hubby did a fab job cooking the burgers, sausages, peppers and sweetcorn, with a pint in his hand of course.
After he’d eaten he was obviously feeling a bit energetic and had a funny 5 minutes.

Hubby having a funny 5 minutes
Needless to say he needed a sit down after that.
Yesterday I was doing my volunteering in the museum. The gallery I’m normally in has closed now for refurbishment, so yesterday was my first day in the Diversity of Life gallery. It’s quite a small gallery but with a huge amount of things packed in, it starts with things you’d find in the sea with examples of coral, a sword fish, various crabs and fish, it moves on to different plants and fungi, then there’s some mammals including a fruit bat and a snow leopard. Moving on round there’s a few birds including a huge albatross, a cassowary and a penguin. There’s also a big glass wall filled with all sorts of creepy crawlies, some of the bugs are huge and you really wouldn’t want them flying at you.
The objects I was given were a couple of examples of coral, a Unicorn beetle in a perspex cube, a fox skull and a sheep skull. I’ve got to say I preferred talking about the Shark teeth, but these things might grow on me. It was really quiet in there yesterday and I only got to talk to about 5 people, hopefully it’ll be a bit busier next week. It was mentioned that next week I might have the Cookie Cutter shark jaw and the Long Nosed Skate jaw that I used to have too.
Whilst Daniel’s been in school I’ve been trying to do a few more things with Oliver. We went to Rhymetime at the library last week, which he seemed to enjoy so we’ll go again this week. The local parent and baby group starts again this week so we’re going there this afternoon. We also had a go at making some fairy cakes last week, which he did really well at.

Will probably try and do some more baking with him sometime soon.