Hanging around

Yesterday and today I stayed home with the kids since barnehage is closed. We've had long but fun days - picking more strawberries and blueberries which the kids have found around the yard (Tryfan especially loves berry hunting); taking Bentley on walks around the neighborhood, all 3 of us holding hands on the quiet streets in case a car or bike or another dog decide to share the road with us; riding bikes around the neighborhood - Rhiannon on her pink bike (always with a baby in the babyseat) and Tryfan riding behind me on my bike. We don't take Bentley on these outings - that would be way too dangerous! But mostly we have just been hanging around the house, unpacking boxes in the garage and moving stuff around. Here are the urchins doing somersaults (aka roly-polies) on some bubble wrap packing material in the gravelly driveway.

Today we also ran some errands together - first we went to see Dr. Weekend and Dr. Heidi near our old house (actually their names are Dr. Viken and Heidi his assistant). I made an appointment because Rhiannon hasn't been hearing what we have been saying lately! We wanted to find out if her affliction was just a 3-year-old spell of not listening, or if she had earwax buildup or what (turned out to be a bit of earwax). Anyway, it was a good visit because "Dr" Heidi loves kids, especially these two, and they both instantly bonded with her. The kids were so good, sitting still with Dr Weekend looked in both of their sets of ears, that they each got a green ring to wear.
After the doctor visit, we took Bentley to his farm where he will stay for 10 days while we are in Wales! Yippiee! We are flying to London tomorrow and then driving west to visit friends in Bristol and Southampton (sort of) before continuing our journey to Little Haven on the Pembrokeshire coast of south Wales. We are spending a week at this house with Rhodri's mother, his sister Nia and her family, and hopefully Sioned and Rhodri's dad as well. Woohoo!! We cannot wait!