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Whist on holiday we visited a model village.
Monster enjoyed the bus ride there:
We saw lots and lots of models. They were very realistic. This is us on our way into the house whose gardens house the models…
… and this is the first model in the garden, of their house.
There were models of famous landmarks, like Stonehenge, …
… places that were familiar, like the house in the clouds …
… and other (somewhat stereotypical) sights from around the UK like a church wedding (spot the Grim Reaper in the graveyard), ….
… a country house, …
… and bin day on a council estate!
There were also some unusual sights if you were looking closely, like the man in a mask with a chainsaw raised above his head…
… and the UFO that had landed in order to use the public toilets!
Monster’s favourite part was the model trains with their buttons that made them move around the track.
He would quite happily have stayed and played with the trains all day!
TBC …
We let him choose where to go for tea. He chose his favourite: nice rice!
On our first full day we visited the Mint and looked around the centre. Monster took a liking to this sheep!
He made his own pirate flag at one of the craft tables and then found a glockenspiel to play with in the pirate tent:
He caught some magnetic fish before going out to play in the water fountains outside:
There were slightly warmer days when Monster chose his own oufits – his trousers that Mummy made (that are nearly too small now), a shirt, his green hat and shoes, and his Mr Tumble spotty bag:
And then it got hot again and we were back in shorts and t-shirt:
And we went to the zoo. He wore the new shirt he got for Christmas and his sunglasses – a real cool dude!
Monster was eager to try out the binoculars he bought with the Christmas money he received from Grandad – he looks a proper little explorer!
In the morning we came down and monster was a little overwhelmed. He was very excited to see all the presents:
This was the first year he’s been able to open presents properly by himself, which he really enjoyed doing:
We played the games, did building with Duplo, and Monster insisted that we all dress up in his new dressing up outfits too:
It rained all day, and after a play with all his presents Monster wanted to go out in the rain with his umbrella:
There was lots of puddle jumping until his boots were completely full up with water:
Father Christmas was there too along with his reindeer and elves:
The Wiggles sang lots of songs that we knew:
There were big smiles all the way through:
Henry the Octopus sang Jingle Bells in octopus language:
Monster insisted I take a photo of Murray in his muscle suit for the ‘Strong’ song:
Captain Feathersword is one of our favourites:
Along with Dorothy the Dinosaur:
We had a great time 🙂
We even have our tree up at home, with a few extra special decorations this year:
This snowman was a Chrismtas present from Monster’s swimming teacher,
and this dove Monster made at Nursery (although if you ask him he insists that it’s a button snail!)
Monster edged closer, grabbed the present and turned and ran as quick as he could – he’s not good with strangers! (We did go up with him later to say thank you properly.)
A Rudolph handprint card, …
… and a handprint calendar!
Reggie gave Monster a Bee Bee Bear hand puppet, which was taken and shown to everyone for several days. Here he is showing Bee Bee Bear what can be seen from the bus window.
It’s very hard catching him still enough to get a non-blurry photo! The reflection in the mirror is slightly less blurry! Playing Thunderbirds wearing his International Rescue hat 🙂
We’ve been watching Dr Who together recently. You can tell from his playing. I asked him what was happening:
He insisted on carrying the basket to do the shopping!
This was last Sunday in Sydney. Monster requested we take his photo – so we did!
And this is him posing for another photo, looking a right cool dude in his hat and sunglasses!
