Another weekend down…

Another weekend has been lost…

On Saturday we head over to Filey to celebrate Cayton’s 4th birthday party – he had a cool pool party at a place called The Bay in Filey (right next door to Primrose Valley) that has loads of holiday homes – real brick houses that just felt like a lovely village all set overlooking the bay of Filey and with a pub, cafe, shop and leisure centre. Olly was unable to swim due to his still being poorly – he has not slept through the night pretty much all week :-(. However, he still enjoyed being there – take a look…

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Today, daddy and uncle Tim head out for a ride on their mountain bikes at lunchtime. They did over 21km and got absolutely filthy – apparently it was a good ride 🙂

We are hoping that Olly manages to sleep through tonight and then he might be good to go to school tomorrow.

First mid week swimming session at Grandma’s and Olly poorly :-(

We decided to help improve the boys swimming, we would have mid-week swimming at Grandma’s pool and Grandma kindly offered to do tea for us all to boot. Today was our first session and poor Olly only managed about 2 minutes 🙁

Vicky got a call from Mrs Lindenmayer (Oliver’s teacher and Headmistress at Silcoates SunnyHill) at lunchtime to say that Olly was suffering from a temperature but that the Calpol seemed to have had the desired effect of controlling it. We decided to collect him early so went to pick him up just before 3pm so that we could nip up and collect Elliot at 3:20 and then head to the pool. Oliver was subdued when we got him, and the teachers told us that he had been that way for most of the day, cuddling his blanket all afternoon and NOT having eaten anything at lunchtime. However, he was ADAMANT that he wanted to go swimming so we decided to let him in and see how he got on. He managed a couple of minutes and the poor mite was shivering big time and requested he got a shower and warm clothes on. So, his first mid-week swim was significantly cut short. It is pretty likely that he will be taking a day off school tomorrow also, but I guess we’ll see how he sleeps and how he is in the morning before making that call…

Elliot on the other hand has enjoyed a 30 minute swim and it is clear that he has learned things at school during swimming and that we could do with just getting him more practise and then he will be doing great. He has already got additional swimming lessons on Tuesday evenings for three weeks after school coming up, so with the additional stuff we are planning, we hope to be able to help him gain the additional skills to crack it.