He's on the move !!

Life will never been the same again ! Tom's crawling... He's been rocking back and forth and shuffling backwards for a while, but now he's mastered it and he's off.

Actually, he's a lazy crawler - he needs a serious motivation before he'll go anywhere, but that's pretty much in keeping with his general character.

We went to Coombe Abbey today for Cameron's 4th birthday picnic and Imogen was desperate to see him crawl, but he wouldn't budge. We had a lovely day - the children played in the park, we had a picnic, walked through the grounds and spent some time in the bird hide. Ella found it difficult to understand what a bird hide actually was. She thought there were birds hiding in there and we were trying to find them...

Last week we were at Nanna and Bampas - we saw Melissa (plus Uncle Steve and Auntie Caroline, of course), went pond dipping and helped Nanna with the gardening. We also spent a day at the beach - looking in rock pools, building a sand speedboat and bouncing on the trampolines. Tom ate his bodyweight in sand (which is a LOT of sand).

We also went to the park - Tom enjoyed the swings...

This week Ella's going to play gym and we're meeting a friend for lunch on Wednesday. We've also got more vegetables to plant - so far we've got lettuces, rocket, courgettes, carrots, tomatoes, strawberries and a few planters of herbs. Last years raspberry plant has self rooted (is that the phrase ?!) so now we've got four.. We should be self sufficient by about 2020 I reckon !