And the dolphin flies free…

a lovely day.

Quiet-ish morning, until it degenerated into world war three amongst the offspring and I sent them to their room. I think what is happening is that Small is attempting to assert some level of independence, and Big isn’t overly impressed – he’s been a very compliant player of pretty much any game she’s come up with for ages now, and she doesn’t like that he’s starting to come up with his own. So we’ve got some boundary testing on both sides, and it’s rather wearing on the ears for me.

And then we loaded them into the car, and went off the path, where we also found the wellyboots 🙂 Good to catch up with them, and considering that there were 10 children around and about the place, I couldn’t believe how harmonious it was! Think the only tears (apart from babies 😉 ) were from Big after a very minor incident, incredibly quickly resolved. So a lovely afternoon, marred only by the unexpected departure of Tim’s dolphin kite when the string he was using (meant for a much smaller kite) snapped, and it flew off over the trees. It kept going much further than you’d expect in the circumstances, beyond anywhere that we could go to reclaim it. 🙁

Lots of other kite flying, dressing up, involved games, and particularly lovely to see Small pal up with a 3 year old wellyboot. Think Tim may have pictures – they played beautifully together for ages.

Leaving was a touch traumatic, as my children just didn’t want to. Journey home was again tough and argumentative, and they stayed awake throughout, much to my surprise. They are down now, and it’s raining! Maybe it’ll be a little cooler tomorrow, that would be nice. I do like summer, but I feel this one is passing me by while I keep hiding from the heat 🙁