Week with Nain and Taid

This week has been busy in a lot of ways. Monday was a public holiday and the rest of this week was Half Term so schools and nurseries were closed for the most part. Nain and Taid spent 4 out of 5 days with the kids while Rhodri was away on business in Morocco and I was working. They had a grand time! It also happened to be a week of [mostly] warm gorgeous weather. Here they are at Tulley's Farm.
And at Sheffield Garden Park, which is just down the road from us.
Lots of time was spent just playing in the backyard too. The rope swing is on the other side of this big expanse of grass, and so it is pretty fun to run full speed across it in order to get to the swing. Sometimes Tryfan stops mid-stride to do a 'roly poly' (somersault).
Warm weather + sunshine + grandparents = lots of ice cream!
The favorite activity of late has been playing Fireman Sam and friends. What happens is Tryfan or Rhiannon shout that there is a fire somewhere and then run to the drying line so they can take turns sliding down the [fireman's] pole...
Then they jump onto their bikes and pedal across the patio to wherever the pretend fire is, spray their pretend hoses at the fire to put it out, and then pedal back to their pretend fire station so they can go straight to the next call. Yesterday they repeated this cycle 31 times, according to Taid Trefor who had to participate as well. Here is Rhiannon on her bike...
They take turns being the different characters in the Fireman Sam stories... Elvis, Penny, Helicopter Pilot Tom, and of course Sam himself. Its pretty funny but sort of exhausting to watch.
Anyway, thanks so much for looking after the troops this week, Beryl and Trefor! We really appreciated it.