One nice sunny day

Sun came out again at last! Richard was working away so I was alone at Jayne's house with the boys (they were on holiday and we were house-sitting and builder-sitting) so Katy offered to go with them to Sutton Park. It was a really good day, had a picnic there, Benji really enjoyed himself, kicked the ball, run around, pissed on a tree (he left the nappies behind, but I would like to write a separate post about that when I have time), ate a big ice-cream, had big pillow fight. He was completely tired-out, didn't need an extra story before going to sleep just went quickly half an hour earlier.
Little Bobin liked it there too, just burnt his little fair skin by the end of the day, I don't think it has seen much sun in his life yet...

Best friends

Nowadays Benji is really interested about the meaning of "friends" and "friendship". His little cars come in pairs, he tells me that the little green car's friend is the red Ferrari, the soft toys come in pairs too, and I know that in nursery his friends are Harry and Olivia, but Declan is not.
We were looking at our wedding photo the other day and he had to name everyone he knew on it, then he pointed at Doug and asked who he is. I said he is Daddy's best friend.
Then for about 1-2 minutes we forgot about it, went on our ways, then all of a sudden he turns to me:
- Mummy?
- Yes?
- My best friend is Dina.

He said it in such a cute, serious way that I really wanted to lift him up and kiss his clever face to pieces.
(It is a shame that the named person couldn't see it...)

The magic of the first train ride

Ok, we have been on a train before, but this was the first proper one, the one he sees in story books and drawings, real steam trains!
I always wanted to visit the Severn Valley Steam Railway as I have only saw beautiful pictures of it in brochures and Tv programs.
I wasn't dissapointed despite we have only went two stops with it, still the countryside was gorgeous (just as well the car drive to Highley).
At the stop where we got off there was a garden railway project where we couldn't pull Benji away from, he had to see the train coming through the tunnel about 20 times. I am sure the train-mad volunteers who run this place appreciated his enthusiasm :-)

We've also visited the Steam museum where we "forgot" to buy the very expensive tickets to (I think it was expensive this weekend because it was a Peppa and George themed weekend). We were really grateful that we didn't when we later only met someone dressed up as George walking around in an enclosure where you could take pictures with him. Which Benji of course didn't even want to. Or dared to.