Go Ape

Project 366 2016 – Week Eleven

Only one week to go before the kids break up for the Easter holidays and excitement levels are picking up already.

The week started with a trip to Thorpe Park and the teens had a blast on all the adrenalin rides whilst I got soaked on the rapids and stormsurge thanks to my brood.

Thankfully the kids all appear to be better this week with no lurgy’s hanging around but we did have a scissor incident this week with Eliza cutting chunks out of her hair. An emergency hairdresser trip later and she has had 3″ cut from her hair and layers put through to try and mask the shortest bit. I don’t think she will be doing that again!

This week has also been dry and the bog, formally known as the garden, was dry enough to be mowed. The kids love being able to play outside with their toys again.

On Wednesday Hubby and I got out for the evening to a quiz night with friends. The quiz was super hard and we thought we would come last but we actually came second which was a nice surprise and on Thursday I headed to Weymouth Sealife Centre with Sebby where the Penguins delighted him by following his finger on the glass.

On Friday the older ones and I headed to Splashdown to try out their new spacebowl ride. It was great fun, even though I came out of it head first. Hubby didn’t ease me in gently and put me on the fastest slide first – revenge will be mine!

Saturday saw us heading to Go Ape and instead of spectating like I normally do I took part. It was great fun, apart from the nets as I have no upper body strength, but I ache in places I had forgotten existed today!

Here is my week in pictures:

Week 11

72. Waving to the teens at Thorpe Park as they swung over

73.  Racing home from school

74.  New haircut

75.  Playing in the garden

76.  Penguin spotting

77.  On the rubber rings at splashdown

78.  10m in the air, concentrating on getting across, but I did it!

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Ringstead Bay

Project 366 2016 – Week Two

This week we have finally seen the back of the rain and although the temperature has dropped we have been out enjoying some much-needed sunshine.

Last Sunday was the last day of non-stop rain but we headed out to our local Beefeater for a yummy roast dinner.

The arrival of the cold weather mean’t we could dig our hats out and Sebastian was super excited to wear his new Thomas hat that Callan got him for Christmas.

On Thursday I met my friends in their gorgeous new house in Southbourne and as it was literally 2 minutes from the beach we took Sebastian down for a walk along the prom to Hengistbury Head.

The beach was also our destination on Saturday. We started at the Sealife Centre in Weymouth and also planned to do the Sealife Tower but it was closed which was a real shame as the skies were so clear. On the way into Weymouth I spotted a sign for Ringstead Bay and a cafe so I decided to head there with a promise of a fun beach walk followed up with a warming hot chocolate.

The kids had a whale of a time running up and down the shingle, making pictures with seaweed and throwing stones into the sea to make different sounds. Sadly we found the cafe was closed so they had to wait for their hot chocolate until they got home.

Here is my week in pictures:

week 2

10. Waiting for our roast dinner at Beefeater

11.  Lego Building Fun after school

12.  New Thomas hat!

13.  Daddy helping out with the school run

14.  A chilly walk along the beach

15.  Stickman hitching a ride on Sebby’s smartrike

16.  Exploring Ringstead Bay

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Seaside

Project 366 2016 – Week One!

Welcome to my fourth year of Project 365, well really its 366 as it is a leap year!

This year hasn’t started as well as I hoped as we have been stuck inside thanks to the weather, but thankfully we are not in as bad a position of those up North and I really feel for those that cannot even get into their homes.

We started this year with having a family get together at home and had a very raucous game of Heads Up. At one point Eliza had to guess Eliza Doolittle and surprisingly got it really quickly. The second day of the year we were invited to Toby’s birthday party and Sebby’s favourite part was the bubbles!

Project 366, week 1

The 3rd day of the year started with torrential rain and I wasn’t hopeful about getting outside but the weather forecast predicted a two hour dry spell and we arrived at the beach just as the rain stopped to blow away the cobwebs. Day four was another indoor day sadly but Sebby had a blast terrorising the island of Sodor with Rex the dinosaur.

Week 1

Day 5 was back to school day, but not before Eliza started her birthday countdown on the chalk board and on day 6, Isaac surprised us all by getting his 600m swimming badge after 3 weeks of no swimming!

Week 1, Project 366

Day 7 saw Sebby return to pre-school and when he came home he promptly passed out on the sofa! The following day he was back at his swimming lessons and we finally cracked the catamarans – he had previously refused to even contemplate trying them!

Week One

Today we visited Rock Up in Whitely and the boys got their climbing wall fix whilst Eliza and Sebby charged around soft play.

Week One!

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