We have heard this saying a lot so far this weekend. "Well it is my birthday". Err no it's not actually. Yesterday we had his birthday meal out and today we had pancakes for breakfast (though I was told he actually wanted English (crepes) pancakes, not American).
The sun was out and the temperature in the sun room was a whopping 20* though in reality outside it was still a cooling -7*. It did get better though and ended up at 3*. We decided to walk off our pancakes and go to the nature walk by the lake. The boys filled a bag with bird seed so they could hand feed the birds again and Huffle took his rucksack so he could scavenge off the beach (too much watching Kevin McCloud recycle everything).
We started by watching the ducks, swans and geese and then left the milling noisy people and carried on up the trail.
Grandad - I'm adding the fence to our list
There were no birds following us today and we had to wait until we got to the beach. Then the boys sat on their favourite bench in the sunshine (out of the SW wind it was gorgeous) and fed a few chickadees.
While the boys threw stones and twigs into the lake, Huffle and I walked along the beach picking up things and leaving them in piles to pick up later should we wish. It was chilling as the wind was coming off the water and into our faces but it was nice to be in the fresh air. We found a piece of driftwood that looked like a dinosaur, a couple of flat pieces of driftwood, a squarish rock and a few sparkly heart shaped stones. Huffle also found an intriguing piece of silver birch (we think) that had a real gold sheen to it. All of those things ended up in the rucksack eventually. We sat on our favourite tree to have a mini egg each and a rest and then we went back to the bench, fed more birds and made our way towards the Cranberry Marsh which was completely under ice.
We passed a group of deer grazing, many many Canda Geese and lots of robins, red winged blackbirds nuthatches, woodpeckers and chickadees. We fed some more on the way back and then went on the proper feeding trail where we had more chickadees feeding around and on us. The kids love it here and it is very nicely laid out. We found a nice tree to sit on in the sunshine. We watched the swans, ducks and geese, had a walk on the boardwalk where we fed a swan and then came home.
Lunch was eaten in front of a bit more of Star Wars and then Huffle FaceTimed Grandma and Grandad, the boys played on the wii and I made a start on Smallest's cake. It all went wrong because I didn't read the instructions so that batter was made into blueberry muffins and blueberry pudding and I made some more.
Then I made some smartie cookies for his class tomorrow. We completely forgot about dinner so made do with fish finger sandwiches and then finished off our Star Wars film.
IS IT BEDTIME YET?
Two fabulous quotes of the day today were one from Grandad who said the only wrestler he knew the name of was John Senior - oh yes Grandad, that famous wrestler! Small said whilst feeding the birds, That's two of my big nuts gone then!
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