Today was a shorts and tee shirt day – not just for daddy but for many others. Daddy had to come home to change into his shorts and to leave his jumper behind after buying Olly’s new bike but before test riding it in the park 🙂
19 degrees was just about reached today and we don’t recall seeing a cloud in the sky all day!!! – YES 🙂
We have just had an awesome day today 🙂
Started off with some terrific swimming – Elliot practised breast stroke and it looked pretty flawless to the spectators and Olly did backstroke WITHOUT armbands or any other flotation help 🙂
Breakfast in Newmillerdam was just lovely and then out to ride our bikes on the Spen Valley Greenway on the other side of Dewsbury. Oliver asked us to put the pedals back on his balance bike so we decided to go and buy him a new bike since the balance bike is WAY too small – he chose a rather fetching Batman bike in Halfords 🙂
When we picked up the new bike (took 45 minutes to build it up and get it ready for action) we went straight to our favourite field for bike riding practise near our house and would you believe it, he just got up on it and rode it away 🙂 OK, so he needs to work on his leg power to be able to pedal on anything other than slight downhills, but the balance and steering looks pretty good 🙂
New bike 🙂 
Olly riding the new bike 🙂
This last image is especially for Grandma Cuckoo – she will know why 🙂
Finally, to top off a great day, Elliot’s second front tooth (top) finally came out – all day we have badgered him to pull it out and he kept “putting it off” – he came in after playing in the garden tonight for a little while and requested its removal – mummy helped and BOOM 🙂
Shame that the chap that washes the cars broke the trim on Bruce’s sidesteps while washing it today – that was the only down of the day 🙂
The original plan was to head up to Hamsterley Forest today with Lee and Ed. Thankfully Ed checkout out the website a few days ago and figured that various bits of the trail were closed off. Upon diagnosis, it seems that quit a lot of the trail was closed so we decided upon a last minute diversion to Dalby Forest and my was it the RIGHT decision.
We arrived shortly after 9am and got out soon after – we chose to start in the Low Dalby car park and hence we would have the worst climb FIRST – another great decision 🙂 Just under 3 hours and around 30km later we got back to the car park exhausted but having given it our all. I think it fair to say that we had forgotten how much fun this place was – although Simon just recalls being the most tired EVER – but then the last time was almost 30degrees Celcius so that will have no doubt had a major part to plan in the exhaustion 🙂
Next time we will need to do the full 40km (all the red sections and the black) although clearly we will need to be super fit to do this 🙂
Simon got back, washed the bikes and sorted the CCTV so that all cameras are now ON and adjusted for optimum coverage :-). Just got to figure out how to control and configure stuff remotely if at all possible as then could hide the box away and not think about it again…
Poor Olly actually fell asleep during read write inc at school yesterday – apparently he was DEVASTATED and full of apologies to Miss Dix 🙁
He burst into tears when mummy collected him after school telling her that he had waited ages for her and thought she wasn’t coming for him. When mummy asked why he didn’t tell anyone that he was not feeling well he said that he didn’t know he was poorly – poor little mite. By the time they got home, he had a 39 degree fever and was clearly not well 🙁
He slept in mummy’s bed overnight and sadly neither of them got much sleep, and to top it all poor Olly still has a raging temperature of almost 40 degrees EVEN with Calpol AND ibruprofen in him 🙁
Elliot is of course also not feeling very well as the sympathy sickness kicks in – but thankfully he is manning up and has agreed with mummy that he will walk into school today without mummy as Olly isn’t fit to make the walk – good boy Elly – we are super proud of you.
Olly, get well soon buddy – enjoy the day with the Xbox and stay wrapped up – daddy has a couple of presents for you that he knows will make you feel better – Mater and Randolph for Disney Infinity 🙂
We set off bright and early to meet Paula, Rich and Cayton at Flamingo Land near Malton for 10am. We were a little early but the sun was shining and the rain stayed away. The zoo and a few of the kids rides were open along with the pub (lunch sorted) and the mega play areas 🙂
The kids all had a great time out in the sunshine and we learned just how many rides that the place has – certainly a summer return may well be necessary to test out all the goodness that was not open today 🙂
A great day – thanks to Paula, Rich and Cayton for joining us – we had a great time.
