Our HE friends and home made paint!

This morning we said goodbye to Aunty as she is off on holiday. We dropped her at the station....will really miss her!!!!

This afternoon L and K and A came round for picnic lunch in the sunshine and then we all went off to a lovely park to meet our friends who are home edding. To begin with Fred was really scared, feeling shy of the children as he does nt know T and O well. I sat with him, cuddled him, fed him and played a pirate game which eventually the other children started playing too and he was off! In the thick of everything, having a whale of a time with all the children. They played a lion game, pirates, climbing, rolling down hills, playing with leaves and twigs making campfires!!!! Mia and Freddie became friends with T and O and were so sad to leave them asking "mummy can we play with T and O again? Can they come to our house?" Feel so so grateful to be on this wonderful journey with such lovely mummies! Had wonderful chats with J, J and L. All of us with very similar parenting styles and ideas. We stayed at the park until 5.30- had to be at work at 6! This evening I made paint for the kids but I ran out of food colouring....so no pink- not sure how Mia will take that!!!! So tomorrow we will try them out.

 The mud coloured one is actually green but hasn't come out well in the picture. So simple, corn flour, hot water, smidgen of washing up liquid, whisk it all together and put food dye in. Keep in fridge. The white one is waiting for red or pink food colouring. Might do painting with balloons tomorrow I think.

Fred is so attached to his butterfly Bingo! He literally walks around the house and garden with Bingo on his hand. I think Fred is going to find it very hard to say goodbye to his pet....