Easter - sorry I'm late......

Here are the rascals waiting for the egg hunt to begin......and then enjoying their hunt and collecting their treasure.
(With special thanks to Neil for showing me that my camera has a 'Children and Pets' setting and how to use it. ahem.)












And here are the eggs we decorated (free range from my school's farm). Harv explained we had to draw characters on them - then bash them against each other, a bit like conkers, until one of the eggs 'could take no more' (the slightly subjective judging criteria). Noah and I both dropped ours before we even started! And I can't remember who won..... But it was lots of fun and we made them into egg mayonnaise sandwiches for lunch

It's days like these.....

......that I LOVE! Good friends staying, lazy, playful morning, tummies full of organic eggies from the school farm, then a loooooong walk around country lanes beside the brimming, racing Dee, along the muddy, still canal, and over the aquaduct that still gives me the heebiejeebies!
It's days like this that I will hold as treasure in my head and try not to miss too much once we are in Nepal...
Oh - and check out Thom in the Beco, which'd just arrived that morning. It's great for me (I'm just too unco-ordinated and unsupple for more traditional back-caryying) and Thom loves it. When I ordered it I kind of had Thom in mind as the same sort of size as one of the babies in the promotional photos - it came as a bit of a shock to find how big he looks in it!

Fancy dress

We love fancy dress parties - here they are all dressed up for Esme's.







It was a beautiful party, both aesthetically and because some of the children and all of the mums have known each other almost five years now. And we have been through a lot of those scary parent times together, and had a LOT of fun with each other.





And here are the boys, pottering about in the play room and watching daddy in fascination as he warmed down and stretched after his run. Loving Noah's funny faces.