This week is half-term and since Tryfan has the chicken pox, we can't really go anywhere in public so we are staying close to home. Today I worked from home but took a lunch break with the kids and Bentley to have a picnic in the forest! Such a luxury to be able to do this spontaneously... Here we are setting off.
And going deeper into the forest. Rhiannon decided to take her baby (actually it is Tryfan's baby that Rhiannon gave to him for his birthday, but now that has evolved into 'Pink Baby' belonging to both of them) for a walk in the pram as well.
The paths we took to find our perfect picnic spot were pretty narrow and rooty, and not terribly flat either. Fair play to Rhiannon who didn't complain - just pushed Pink Baby up and over the rooty path!
Finally our picnic spot next to the blue rope swing over the creek. After doing some swinging first, we ate all our food and then played "Leaf Snap": I hand each kid a different leaf that I have collected and they have to find a matching one on the ground and then find the tree that it comes from! Tryfan turned his part of the game into "Stick Snap", where he finds loads of sticks the same length and thickness, but Rhiannon was eager to learn about the leaves and trees.
Then we walked home a slightly different way so we didn't have to backtrack too much, and we all had a rest in the afternoon before playing outside in the back garden again before dinner.
And going deeper into the forest. Rhiannon decided to take her baby (actually it is Tryfan's baby that Rhiannon gave to him for his birthday, but now that has evolved into 'Pink Baby' belonging to both of them) for a walk in the pram as well.
The paths we took to find our perfect picnic spot were pretty narrow and rooty, and not terribly flat either. Fair play to Rhiannon who didn't complain - just pushed Pink Baby up and over the rooty path!
Finally our picnic spot next to the blue rope swing over the creek. After doing some swinging first, we ate all our food and then played "Leaf Snap": I hand each kid a different leaf that I have collected and they have to find a matching one on the ground and then find the tree that it comes from! Tryfan turned his part of the game into "Stick Snap", where he finds loads of sticks the same length and thickness, but Rhiannon was eager to learn about the leaves and trees.
Then we walked home a slightly different way so we didn't have to backtrack too much, and we all had a rest in the afternoon before playing outside in the back garden again before dinner.
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