'With a hop, hop, hippity hop....'


It's been busy and tiring but enjoyable couple of days. Molly went to a swim party at Birch Farm in Hintlesham. It was a nice place but the main pool wasn't really suitable for many of the children there as it was just too deep and even in the shallow end it was too deep for those that weren't confident swimmers. Molly spent most of the time in the training pool with her friend. She had fun though, and that's the main thing. While we were at the party Nigel and Charlie did the grocery shopping.

We dropped the shopping off at home and then caught the park and ride bus into Ipswich. We went straight to the Regent to collect our tickets for the show. Charlie was a little fidgety waiting for the show to start and asked a few times to go home but once the show started he settled down.

The Milkshake show was really good and by the second half me & Molly were singing, clapping and joining in with the fun. Nigel kept dozing off! Derek and Jen were the two presenters and we got to see Fifi and Bumble, Rupert, Noddy and Tessie Bear, Mr Bump, Little Princess, Peppa Pig & George. During the interval I asked Molly and Charlie who they had liked seeing most. Molly said Jen and Charlie said Woody Bear. I think he meant Tessie Bear!

It was no noisier than I expected, although I happened to be sitting in front of the loudest child there! All the children surrounding us sat relatively still during the show and there were lots of 2 year olds.

Molly was very disapppointed when it finished and wanted to watch it again today but at £50 for a family ticket I wasn't prepared to sit through that again, maybe next year. It was worth going though and although we thought Charlie was perhaps a year too young for a show of that length of time we all enjoyed it. The children couldn't wait to get home and show grandma and grandad the programmes from the show and talk about who they'd seen.

We've been singing the Brekkie Bop song ever since! Hence the first line of this blog.

Today started off slowly. We had a bit of a lie-in this morning and then pottered around the house until we went to a bbq which followed my friend's son's christening. The children had great fun playing with Toby and his friends in the garden while Nigel and I were able to eat, drink and be merry! We had to leave after a couple of hours as Charlie and Molly had been invited to Charlie's friend's birthday party at Northgate Sports Centre. They burnt off lots of energy in the soft play area but it tired them out. They both went to bed quite early but we've got a busy week, so that's no bad thing.

We're off to the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket tomorrow and if we have time we'll go to Playworld. We're also going to Colchester Zoo, Framlingham Castle and Sutton Hoo (via Woodbridge Open Top sightseeing bus (http://www.city-sightseeing.com/index.phtml?command=search&clear-search=true&destinations=woodbridge) this week. We're also going to do the Ipswich Treasure Hunt (http://www.huntfun.co.uk/index.php )one day and have a picnic in the park after the hunt. We'll be travelling a lot on buses and trains and taking our own food as much as possible to try to keep costs down.