Caldies and more

We've been out and about a fair bit lately, as per, but I don't always get time to write about it! We had fun at Long Lane playing fields yesterday, running to and spinning round goal posts, picking the last blackberries of the season, rolling on the grass and picnic-ing (sp?!) in the bushes :)

Today we were back at Calderstones for most of the day. We didn't get far due to stopping to investigate under trees, in big bushes and over logs :) We played hide and seek round a big fallen tree, kicked dry leaves at each other under a holly tree, and pretended the inside of a bush was our house; it had windows and everything (clearings in the leaves)! Isaiah said "Can we stay here all day mummy?", and we basically did :)

We also found some fabulous sticks amongst some other bushes, and proceeded to have a pretend sword fight :) We were even lucky enough to chase a very pretty black, white and orange butterfly, which kept landing right in front of us and let us walk right up to it :) We met a dog called Millie who we stroked and, in a very excited manner, Isaiah said "I've never met Millie the Dog before"!

There was a lovely evergreen covered in juicy-looking red berries, and upon closer inspection, Isaiah declared, "Me and Davey ate these!", which they did indeed attempt to - until Davey's dad and I intervened! That was about a month ago - I was impressed he remembered the exact berries!

The weather was gorgeous and I was really tired after having both of them up in the night a fair bit but when we get out into nature all our spirits lift!