Summertime fun

At the begining of the summer we bought oliver a swing for the garden, he seems to really love it and finds great amusement in it.

I took this video of him the other day, I was hanging out the washing and he was quite happy to sit in his swing.

Yesterday we had my friend Linda's two girls here as she is back to work, we had a lovely day. They arrived about 7.30am, Oliver had already had his breakfast so the girls played with him while i got myself ready. We walked millie and nipped to the shops.

When we got back Oliver went down for his nap, so i set the girls a task of making boats to float on our afternoon bike ride to the river. The girls did ever so well and even made me and Oliver a boat each.

Once we had all had lunch, (bbq chicken, cous cous & salad), we got ourselves sorted and onto our bikes. We cycled down to the river and donned our water shoes. Once in the river we set the four boats off. The first race was won by Jenna, Oliver's grounded itself on the banking.

Jenna & Leah with the boats

For the second Race we upped the stakes and decided to try out the rapids. On this occasion Olivers bought rose to the challenge and left the others standing. Both jenna & Leahs boats met a watery fate and were lost in the white water of the deveron rapids!

Boats heading for the rapids

The girls decided they didn't mind getting wet and played in the river until they were soaked, Oliver and i sat and dried out on the rug.

Oliver watching the girls in the deveron

On our cycle home we stopped off a Rizzas ice cream/sweetie shop for some "crap sweets" or penny sweets as most people know them. After carefully selecting their mixture we headed on home to watch a movie while oliver took a nap.

For tea i left the girls in charge of making us all pizza's, including one for mum when she got back from work.
We had a really lovely day and Oliver thoroughly enjoyed the company.

xcx

p.s good luck to Jenna for tomorrow - she is starting at the high school!