The Lakes - Day 2 xx

I am loving having WIFI to blog with as it means I can be picture heavy (sorry!)  My dongle would have not have coped with uploading this many photo's.  Mark paid £5 for the week which meant that two devices could connect to the WIFI.

Pictures with Anais and Roman on have been uploaded to Facebook. x

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We woke up this morning to Anais bringing us a cup of tea and coffee in bed!  We then heard a commotion coming from the kitchen which forced us to get up and see what was going on.  Anais had set the table for breakfast, opened the curtains and was making toasted soldiers as she wanted a boiled egg for breakfast............

Roman looking out of the window at.............?

..........but the commotion was because she could see a family of three deer's out of the kitchen window!  A lovely way to start the day!

View from our bedroom window........

Pics for mom and dad - Anais and Roman's room.........

Our bedroom............

After breakfast we walked to the lake to feed the ducks and Roman sailed his boat.

We took a picnic lunch with us and sat looking at the views over White Moss Common eating lunch.  We then drove to Grasmere where went to the Sarah Nelson Gingerbread shop and brought some gingerbread.  We sat in the Wordsworth Daffodil Garden eating gingerbread and reminiscing about when the kids were little, Anais would feed the ducks by the side of the river and when Roman was a baby he would sit in his buggy sucking on the gingerbread.  We also had a lovely walk around Grasmere.

Love Grasmere, such a pretty little village.

This afternoon we borrowed some films from the DVD library in reception and sat watching "Cool Runnings" and "Spiderman" while we all made something..........

Roman - Roman had a rocket making kit for Christmas, when he opened it he said "I'm going to faint!"  He has been saving it to do on holiday.  He had to give it two coats of paint as the white paint was quite thin, he was impatient and kept asking to put the stickers on while it was drying.  Here he is making it start to finish.

Anais - Anais had this hanging heart set for Christmas (picture pinched from Amazon as she had opened the box before I had chance to take a photo of it).  I thought she would struggle with this and keep asking for help, I also thought she would do approx one per night.  The only thing I had to help her with was sewing the button and flowers on as she struggled to get the needle through all of the layers of felt and through the button hole.  She made two today (just has to sew the hanging loop on the second heart).  Here she is making them start to finish.

Mark brought a model car to make.......

I finished the purple scarf and started knitting another in Rico Loopy colour - slate.

Before tea Mark took Anais and Roman swimming.  They tried to go several times this afternoon but as the pool is only small there is a limit to ten people at any one time.  I'm not fussed about going swimming (contact lens wearer) and Mark isn't fussed about going swimming so he was happy to take them and sit on the side observing while I stayed in the apartment to watch while tea cooked.

Thanks Mark who brought me some Cath Kidston scissors.  He put them in my crochet roll yesterday thinking when he gave me the wool I would do some crocheting.  I only opened my crochet roll today though as Anais was after scissors to cut the cotton to make her felt hearts and he had replaced the ones that were in there with these very sharp and very pretty Cath Kidston ones!  Pretty scissors today and 15 balls of wool yesterday!  Thanks, very kind and I love them! xxxx

EDIT - Forgot to say, Anais and Roman say "thank you nanny for our pocket handwarmers which have kept our hands lovely and warm while we have been out today! xx"