No major drama but Pepsi is out of tablets so we needed to take him to the vet this am for a checkup before they would allow us to buy more 🙂

He has (as expected) a clean bill of health and we have a large box of drug number 1 with the easy flex chews on order to collect on Monday.  Elliot and Oliver went down to Palmer and Duncan with daddy to take Pepsi, although neither of them wanted to particularly.  Elliot seemed to think that Pepsi was going to have his legs removed (??!!??) and Oliver was somewhat concerned over the other dogs in the waiting room.  Then he spied a cat – that changed everything for him and the trip was worthwhile it seems.

Elliot was not too happy with the smells in the place and didn’t seem to understand that there are lots of animals in the vet, so naturally there are smells lingering around from them all.

Mummy is working from home today, so the boys are all going to head out somewhere to get out of the way and leave the house a little quieter 🙂

Mummy started her month of contract work today, so was up and out of the house shortly after 7am 🙁  All after a crap night sleep as well – firstly with the worry of the alarm going off (come on – we’ve all been there with that one) and secondly with Olly waking up 🙁

So, the boys did a little shopping and a lot of playing…  We head out to get some dog food for Pepsi and get an appointment for him so that he can have more of his tablets etc.  Then on to B&Q to get some wood to build a frame to fit Olly’s train set to the wall in the garage.  Finally, we went to the boys favourite shop – Toys R US – to spend some of their CHristmas cash 🙂

Elliot bought some (surprise, surprise) Star Wars LEGO and Olly got some Cars colour changers – fun with water 🙁

Daddy fitted Olly’s Train set to the wall in the garage so that it hinges up to the wall when out of use and down, with legs that automatically pop out to support it when he wants to use it.  Hopefully it will be usable out there and not too cold – the board is just too big to leave lying in the dining room or conservatory and is thus getting damaged unnecessarily 🙁  This solution should be more permanent and keeps it safely out of the way when not in use 🙂

This is to be the last post of 2012 – my how the year has FLOWN by…

Yesterday, we nipped over to Bridlington to spend the day with Cayton, Paula and Richard.  Thankfully Oliver was feeling quite a bit better (although still needed Calpol etc to keep him going) so we decided that it was going to be a trip that we could make.  We spend an hour or so on the beach in the rain and wind – it was most definitely cold, but the boys really enjoyed it – shame daddy didn’t enjoy it so much and wittered on about sand in his car… 🙁

We then head over to an indoor play centre right next door to the John Bull Rock factory – shame there were no tours going on – would have loved to have done that – daddy did one 30 or so years ago and every time we pass the place (on the way into Bridlington from York) he tells us all about it – dull really 🙁

Then over to the fish and chip shop for tea (when in Rome….) before an hour or so back at their place prior to heading back over to Ossett.

A great day out all in all, ended with Olly screaming in the car for the last 5 to 10 minutes as he awoke by his movement sensor (car stopped at the motorway roundabout at the Ossett / Wakefield junction).  Mummy then had to struggle to get him ready for and then into bed…

Daddy took his gloves (Christmas Gift from Grandma and Grandad) to the Oliver Sweeney store today as they are a size too big but also don’t work a advertised – super special black leather gloves that can actually control touch screen phones etc – well excepting that these ones did not work.

So, now daddy is in possession of a pair that work effortlessly with the phone / iPad but also a couple of me pairs of shoes, a new coat and a belt…. 🙂 whoops

We now need to make a trip for mummy to do a little shopping to level out the balance a tad 🙂

Tomorrow we are heading north to Cramlington to visit Great Grandma and will be staying overnight. Then we will be visiting a few others on Saturday before heading back south again.

Then on Sunday, we are heading out to Bridlington for the day to see Paula, Rich and Cayton where we might get in a pantomime.

Busy few days 🙂