Duncan the tree!

Well I think it’s winter now isn’t it? The weather seems to have been pretty wet of late so it’s been lots and lots of train set action! It’s also getting dark pretty early which makes it easier for them to get me into bed at night.
Wednesday we met mum for lunch. I have banned all other lunches in town except for the Pasty shop now. We even managed to sit and eat it by the canal, and as usual it was lovely. I ate it all up (it should be noted that this is a different sort of ‘eat it all up’ to that which I practice when faced with a plate full of veg where ‘eating it all up’ actually means ‘picked at it a little’). After that it was on to the post office to pick up my parcel. I carried it proudly all the way back to the car and then opened it up to find a nice new pair of trainers inside, smart! I love new shoes although they are a little on the big side…..
Thursday I almost exhausted Mum making her play with my train set again and again and again. Even the intervention of a Mrs Goggins figure (from Postman Pat) didn’t manage to hold her attention. There’s no pleasing some people.
Friday was wet so mum took me to nursery in the car, this also meant she came to pick me up which was a lovely surprise. I made a big fuss of her when she came to get me.
Now things started to get a bit busy! Not only has Max got a new brother but he’s also moved to London! How fancy is that? No more country bumpkin, hello fancy big city boy. We went over to see them in the morning, the move doesn’t seem to have affected him and it was business as usual, we attacked Duncan the tree, played with all his toys and I even managed to fill Emma’s washing basket with mud!

Of course the star attraction this time was Leo:

I promise I’m not hurting him in this picture and he is normally very quiet (sleepy). I can't wait until he can join in with our nonsense.
Max and I had our usual rough and tumble session:


As is customary, it always ends in tears but this time Leo upstaged the pair of us with a spectacular spewing session, it was ace!
We came home, packed our things and went strqaight round to Nick, Carol and Abi’s house. The full gang were there and the nibbles were out on the table….it would have been rude not to dig in. I decided to try the twiglets, I shouldn’t have, they were horrible! I chewed it a bit, spat it out onto the carpet and then placed it back in the nibble bowl, I don’t think anyone noticed. Andy and I had a bundle on the bean bag and then I went to bed in my travel cot. I haven’t been in it for ages and it’s starting to get a bit snug nowadays.
I woke up nice and early on Sunday morning and decided that 5:30 am was the appropriate time to burst into a few verses of Twinkle Twinkle little star. Mum and Dad didn’t. I let them sleep a bit longer before we got up, came home and then went out again, this time around to Alan’s as it was Sonia’s birthday. We gave her a card and present and stroked Elvis the cat a bit before setting off for the Café for breakfast.
We went to Marlborough, chasing Alan all the way along the road. I’d already sneaked a couple of bowls of rice krispies for my breakfast, so I was onto brunch rather than breakfast. They ordered me a cake with Raisins in it as they thought I’d like that but mum’s full English breakfast looked much nicer. I managed to scrounge a sausage and a load of bacon from her (two things I won’t normally eat) so Dad and Alan shared my cake between them. Greedy pigs. After that we said our goodbyes and had a wander up the high street. I was allowed a lovely set of five fire engines that I have played with non stop ever since (I like to line them up neatly on the fire station on my road play mat). Mum also got an ‘advent calendar’ ready for Christmas, which she was very excited about this. That evening we had my favourite roast chicken and stuffing before watching the monkey programme on the telly cuddled up with mum, a nice way to round off a busy weekend.