Laura’s Life

After much consideration and deliberation, I have decided to take a break from blogging for a while.  Pressures on my time mean that I have very little space in my schedule to pursue my hobbies and interests.  Something had to give and, sorry to say, but blogging had to get the chop for the time being.

Thanks go to my regular readers for keeping up with my blog and taking an interest in the contents of the posts and following my boys’ lives through this photographic journal.  Hopefully there will be a point in the not to distant future when I can return to the blog but, as a farewell gift, I close with some photographic highlights from our recent trip to Wiltshire.

Thanks

Laura

Aidan entered a competiton in his National Geographic Kids magazine.  The prize was a trip to the National Space Centre in Leicester with an overnight stay and breakfast at the Hilton.

In our hotel room at the Hilton:

The boys watched ‘Clash of the Titans’ on the TV at bedtime:

Eating breakfast in the morning - Aidan’s favourite part of the prize!

Aidan loved the foyer of the hotel:

The National Space Centre:

Aidan beneath a rocket at the entrance to the Space Centre:

A collection of photos of the boys from the last few days of June.

One day after school last week, it was scorching hot so I took the boys home via the play park.  There was water in the paddling pool.  How do you think this story ends?

Yes, that is Aidan dipping his head in the water:

After the head-dunking, the boys progressed to swimming.  Fully clothed.  Strangely enough, I was a bit too occupied to take photos.  Yes, me.  Too busy to take photographs.  That’s how nutty my sons’ behaviour was.  Needless to say, they were absolutely soaked and had to walk home through town drenched and dripping:

On Friday afternoon, Aidan’s class performed a ‘Caterpillar Boogie’ which his brothers and I went to watch.  This is Aidan wearing his butterfly and caterpillar hats:

Aidan with his new ‘Harry Potter Lego’ game:

The gift bags Aidan made for his teacher and classroom assistants:

The wrapping paper Orin and Evan made for the staff at their nursery:

Orin with the cookies he made at the weekend:

In the middle of using the Wii Fit, I nipped out of the room for a minute and, upon my return, discovered that Arlo had decided to do some exercise:

On Friday, Orin had a Graduation ceremony at Elfs to celebrate his time at pre-school and mark his transition to school.

The children performed a group reading of “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” complete with actions:

Heather presenting Orin with a certificate and atlas:

Helping Daddy weed the front garden:

Arlo on the trampoline:

Aidan and Arlo on the slide:

Orin:

Kapow!

Evan:

Arlo on the toddler slide:

Orin doing a superhero move on the slide:

Orin’s hands suddenly quadrupled in size:

Me:

Arlo:

On Sunday we went for a walk to Kilmory Loch to see what beasties we could find.

Chris and Arlo setting off:

Chris and all four of his boys on Fathers Day:

We found a pair of sasquatches in the woods:

Me:

Orin picked a flower for me to wear in my hair:

Paddling in a stream:

Amorous dragonflies:

Their bodies make an upside down love-heart shape:

Aidan and Evan guddling with sticks in the loch:

Aidan looking through a tree’s roots:

Chris gave Arlo a stick which he promptly used to beat his Daddy about the head with!

The loch was absolutely teeming with tiny baby frogs:

Aidan holding a frog:

Baby frog hunting down a fly:

Every lily pad was swarming with frogs:

Evan holding a frog:

Aidan looking at the frogs:

The loch:

Frogs on a rock:

Orin:

Evan:

Aidan:

Arlo:

Arlo fast asleep in the backpack:

Aidan:

Orin:

Evan doing bunny ears:

Orin and Evan climbing on a gate:

Evan and Aidan with their fern weapons:

It was Fathers Day on Sunday.  The boys made Chris a card, Aidan having made the stars ‘n’ stripes star out of hama beads:

Orin made Chris some chocolate truffles at preschool:

Orin presented Chris with a Mexican cookery book:

Evan presented him with some fancy chocolates:

Aidan presented him with The Civil War DVD:

We spent Saturday morning at Crinan Ferry beach.  The blue sky might make it look sunny and hot but there was a very chilly wind whipping in from the sea so we were only able to stay for a couple of hours.

Arlo loved the sand:

Orin doing some kind of crazy semaphore:

Evan found a cup which he used to make sand pies:

Playing football:

Aidan making a sand angel:

The boys paddling in the sea:

Once we got back from the beach, we had a barbecue lunch:

Random added photo - a spider in our house:

Another milestone is reached: Arlo can walk! He finally decided to take more than a few brief steps on Saturday when my parents were visiting. I guess he wanted to show off for the grandparents. So, at 12.5 months (not too shabby for a preemie), Arlo is officially a walker.

This video, however, is of Arlo NOT walking because he decided to just mess about instead, much to the amusement of his big brothers:

In this video, however, he finally co-operated and you can see him walk:

An assortment of photographs taken in June.

Picnic in the garden:

Arlo:

Evan made Spiderman out of duplo lego:

Evan and Arlo dressed as Buzz and an alien:

Setting off for Rhyme Time at the Library.  Evan decided they should go along dressed up as characters:

Orin drew this picture at preschool.  It transpired that he wanted to draw Arlo being stolen so that he could imagine rescuing him:

Arlo can walk!