My best friend comes to stay

Hugging in the park

On Thursday morning we had much excitement as Rachel, Mae and Lucy came up to stay for a night.  How cool is that?  Although they hadn't seen each other for 2 months, they were straight back into being best friends again.  I think there was about 2 seconds of shyness and then we lost Mae and Tom as Mae explored the house, and a game of hide and seek got underway.  Mae is a lot better at this than Tom, she actually hides and waits to be found, Tom still doesn't hide and finds you as soon as you say 'ready or not'.  This meant that Mae was much better and had to hide a long time before Tom could find her (with my help).

Playing on the horse

Lucy had grown amazing amounts as well - she's walking, her hair has got thicker, curlier and blonder, she has more teeth, is beginning to talk and after initially not wanting to be with me, accepted me and played quite nicely with me if Rachel wasn't around - she's a Mummy's girl.

Anyway they acted as if they last saw each other a couple of days ago and obviously still adore each other, it was really good to see both of them so happy to be in each other's company.  Unfortunately Mae wasn't in best health with a cough and cold, but it didn't seem to bother her at all.  After lunch at home we headed out for some fresh air and did our usual circuit of Kirkby Lonsdale - Tom and Mae ran with each other round by the river ending up at the park for a play.  They played for ages and ages in the park - much longer than if Tom and I were in the park together.

Rachel, Tom, Mae and Lucy

We got caught out by a hail storm and decided we should return home, which we did.  We had a quick dinner of sausages during which Mae became unwell with a stomach ache, she ended up going straight to bed - something we weren't expecting at all.  Infact all children were in bed by 7.30 meaning we had quite a nice evening.  This wasn't to last though as Rachel had a dreadful evening with Mae awake with a fever, and her waking up Lucy.  Poor Rachel didn't look very well at all in the morning.  Needless to say Rachel was keen to get home to try to get Mae back on track so they left in the morning after watching a bit of Totoro.  I was sad to see them go, we both re-made our resolutions to keep in touch and make sure Mae and Tom see each other as regularly as possible, their friendship is too good to break.