Day at the park with Grandma

This weekend Grandma (Tracie’s Mum) came to stay. We had a nice morning on Saturday at the park.

On Sunday evening, Tracie and Sal went out to dinner (Aunty Shell’s hens night). This was our first night out without the boys. Grandma gave the boys dinner, bathed them and put them to bed. We are thrilled to say that Grandma did a great job, and the boys coped very well. She tells us that they were good boys, ate their dinner and went straight to sleep without any trouble. We are very excited, and plan to go out to dinner again soon :)

Pictures at the park….

Ethan, Grandma and Ben walking to the park. Love the smile on Ethan’s face. They know they are going to the park to feed the ducks. They LOVE feeding the ducks. They were so excited!! Ben was saying “need bread, get bread. The guckies (duckies), the guckies, the guckies!!

Before we even left the house, Ben got the bread scraps out of the freezer. We all got in the car (bread in the back) and Ben started to cry. He kept saying “guckie bread, guckie bread”. He was worried that we’d left the bread at home. As soon as we told him the bread was in the back, don’t worry, we have it… he was ok and stopped crying. He didn’t want us to forget it!

Ben, Ethan and Mumma (Tracie) feeding the ducks

Grandma and Ethan feeding the ducks – trying to convince them to take the bread out of their hands… it didn’t work!

Ethan and Ben, watching the duck and the water.

Ethan

Ben

Ben, Ethan and Grandma admiring the view      

Feeding the ducks (again)

Ethan, Mummy (Sal) and Ben

Ethan, Mumma (Tracie) and Ben

Ethan, Grandma and Ben

Playing at the park…..

Mummy and Ben – going up…

… and going down. He loved the slide, and managed to climb up and slide down all by him self about 10 times.

Grandma pushes Ben on the swing. Just after this picture was taken, Ben decided he’d had enough of the swing, and tried to jump off. Luckily he had a seatbelt on. He did manage to slip out a bit, but didn’t get hurt. Silly boy!

and then Ethan

Mummy and Ethan – going up….  

up 

… and down. Ethan also loved the slide. He is a little more wary of heights, and it was quite a high slide. He preferred Mummy to help him up. He still went about 10 times, and gained confidence with each time. It was great, as last time we went to this park a couple of months ago, Ethan was too scared to go down the slide at all. Well done E!!

Ethan and Ben loved the spinning round a bout.

We had a great morning at the park!

Winter is really starting to set in, as I’m sure you can see by our clothes. It was a beautiful sunny winter day, but a nice chill on the wind down by the water. We were nice and warm in all our layers. It was about 13-15 C that morning, but felt cooler with the wind. That’s high 50’s Fahrenheit for our American friends. We’re wimps I know, but the wind was quite cool…. and that’s only how cool our winter days get!!! (cooler at night) We’re not used to the snow!