We had another pretty quiet week last week, mostly spent at home doing jigsaw puzzles, baking fairy cakes, and watching Nerys learn to fly on a new flight sim game that Steve bought.
It’s quite amazing to watch her, she’s learnt so much already and has been having a great time flying to all sorts of incredible places all around the world. We were joking the other day that if there was an incident on a plane now and they called out ‘does anyone know how to land a plane’ she would probably put her hand up and go for it!
We did get out a few times for walks in the local park too, playing the game of trying to time outings around the rain.
I took the photos for this week’s post on a family walk through Singleton park.
Nerys asked if we could go to a particular tree that she likes to climb, so we stopped and played there for a bit before heading back home through the botanical gardens.
All in all it was quite a quiet week, but we still managed to tick a few more things off the children’s summer bucket list.
One of the things on the list that they were most looking forward to was staying up until midnight and having a family slumber party. So while Steve was off work last week we did just that. The children covered the lounge floor with their duvets and pillows and we dug their sleeping bags out of the cupboard so they were nice and cosy and comfortable.
We watched Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix together which took us up to almost midnight. I think I was the most tired out of all of us by then, Rhys and Nerys were still buzzing from the excitement of being up so late!
I’d love to say they then slept in the next morning but I think all us parents know it doesn’t work like that. I was woken from an actually quite decent night’s sleep on the sofa by them chatting away on the floor next to me.
The night before we’d also ticked off ‘pizza night’ from our bucket list, thanks to some amazing pizzas that Steve made for us all. And then the next day we also ticked off ‘make s’mores’ which Nerys was so excited about.
She’d seen YouTube videos of people making and eating them and was so happy to finally get to try them for herself. To be honest, I was quite excited to try them myself too. I can’t believe it took me so many years to finally give one a try!
Have you ever made s’mores? Are we just really late to the s’mores party?!
Oh, such happy lovely pictures – your kids look so content.
Aw your slumber party sounds like so much fun! 🙂 Lovely photos! #livingarrows
I love a nice quiet week. Our two have picked up a few computer games recently and I’m always amazed at how well they get on with them x
Sounds like you’re having a great summer holidays and ticking lots of the list x
It was really lovely, even with all the restrictions, I think we managed to make it fun for everyone! x