Nice weekend and Tom's first disco

We had a nice stay at home weekend last weekend.  Unfortunately, we didn't take any photos so I'll have to describe it.  Sorry folks!

Saturday Matt and Tom went out in the morning to get their hair cut (both came back with the same hair do) and do some shopping whilst I finished off a birthday cake (for Sam next door - Monsters Inc theme) and made a roast with all the trimmings for Kathy and Paul who eventually came to visit us.

We had a lovely afternoon with Kathy and Paul - they are good company, Tom was on good form - both entertainment wise and good eating wise - he ate a full plate of food.  Time whizzed by - before we knew it it was 5pm - they made their excuses and we gave Tom his dinner before bed.

Babyccino

Sunday we headed into Kendal first thing as Tom grew out of his school shoes last week.  He complained his feet were hurting and on inspection I found the beginnings of blisters - oops.  So he wore is 'out of school' boots for the rest of the week.  The selection process was quite easy - I lined up the available styles he tried them on - if he couldn't get them on by himself they were rejected.  We then looked at the tread and kept the ones with good tread, then he got to choose.  He is now an 11f which I believe is quite big.

We had a quick coffee and a bun after shopping.  The only cafe at the outlet centre is Costa - not a place we would normally go to (prefer to support local businesses).  They do a babyccino - a mini hot chocolate for children which Tom enjoyed.

We then headed back home as we had a date in a pub with one of Tom's friends - Fred and his family.  The pub was walkable so we went on foot, managing to dodge the rain.  We had a proper dinner each and then headed to their yard for a play on bikes and scooters (their yard has a good long slope on it, making it perfect for play)  We also got to have a look around the vehicles they currently have (they are the family with the big gun on the A65 - and deal in heavy vehicles)

We got home just in time for a skype with Grannie and Grandpa and then Tom had tea and went to bed.  A good weekend.

Tom had a very busy week this week:

Rubbish bag wizard Tom

Monday - swimming after school
Tuesday - tea with Finn (another classmate)
Wednesday - home after school
Thursday - Halloween disco in the evening.  I as usual was rubbish with the fancy dress thing - I have always hated fancy dress and try to ignore it if at all possible.  Living where we do, I can't just nip out for something.  After Tom decided he wanted to go to the disco I visited Co-op and managed to find a wizard's hat and orange glow in the dark wand.  I then cut up a black sack for a cloak. He was the only one in a homemade costume at the disco, but he didn't mind at all.  The disco was ridiculously loud: full of kids who just seemed to want to scream!  There was very little music, and even less dancing. Surprisingly it didn't seem to worry Tom, he didn't wander far from us, but he was happy doing his own thing.  He even got two big hugs and kisses from two girls in his class when he left - the little charmer.
Friday - curry in Settle.

He has come down with a cold and is very tired, so it is just as well it is now half-term.  Lots of sleep and snoozy mornings to be had - yippee!