Muddy fun!

A trip to the park today, a picnic in the rain under our friends gazebo. Thankfully the drizzly rain eased off to a dry-ish afternoon. The bees wizzed about with all there friends having lots of fun. Rather a lot of mud was involved!! Lol! Big bee kept mud free as was stirring mud pies or 'chocolate icecream' with sticks but little bee... Well... He got rather stuck in! :-)

A lovely day, completley tired out bees! amazingly we still managed quite a lengthy discussion on the way home from park about wood, its origins, where it goes once chopped down, it's different uses etc. also about how we need trees to breathe..

An interesting and very educational chat which all came about after seeing a lorry full of logs.

Education happening naturally here there and everywhere! :-) 

And finally, a cute little chicken piccy that big bee done. There is a lot of talk of fertile eggs, mating chickens and broody hens at the moment, hence the picture! 

We have a black hen gone broody who is currently sitting on a plastic egg! Watch this space...

Pizza making and frogs legs

Lovely day with sis and co today.. 

Amongst lots of playing they made pizza!

They look yum!

The girls with there 'best friend' necklaces. :-)

Book time with auntie C

Girlie cuddles!

Catching a bit of BFG

Ooh cheeky chickens on the loose!

And lastly, exciting news.... The tadpoles have back legs!!! Yay!

Mad science

Some bead threading for little bee this morning..

Then onto our science class. 'Mad science'

The mad scientist done loads of experiments for the children to watch and participate in.

Here they are learning about defracting light.

Static electricity and a demo!

Passing electricity through people..

Giving out little static shocks.. Big bee was keen to go and receive one! Urgh, personally cant think of anything worse!

Crack! On the nose! Lol!

Every action has a reaction lesson..

And after our fab science lesson we all bundled out into the rain on the park! :-)

Pouring with rain but as usual our little hardy munchkins couldn't care less! :-)

Making a splash

Today didn't end up quite as planned but was a lovely day anyway.. We were meant to be going to a tesco 'farm to fork' trail. It was an arranged home ed trip. Unfortunately for unknown reasons tesco cancelled it very late notice so we didn't get to go. It's apparently going to be re-organised for another day so we'll just have to wait.

Anyway, we ended up going round our friends instead. We had a lovely day with them. Within seconds of us being there both my bees had stripped out and were having a whale of a time sliding down the slide into the paddling pool! They loved it!

Because a lot of the day was spent nudey I obviously don't have many photos! 

Dried off and making ornaments..

And painting them!

Back home, eggs collected, chickens given lots of cuddles and care, and onto her very important job of weighing them and recording her findings. We always talk about which egg weighs more/less etc.

She then candled them, she loves looking at them under the light!

A small gathering of strawberries from the polytunnel, - perfect supper for the bees! Little bee picked these, he practically squealed with delight as he found them!

Thrigby Hall wildlife park

Fab faby day today, a trip to Thrigby wildlife park! The bees were so excited to be going to the Zoo, particularly little bee who even got up early to remind me we were going!

The weather forecast looked a little iffy in places but we couldn't have asked for a better day. Not a spot of rain and not to hot either. :-) so much learnt today, (me included in that!) 

The first (noisy) animal we met!

The children disappeared into a little tunnel to view these porcupines..

Monkeys!

Picnic lunch time!

The leopard enclosure captured the children for ages, they were racing around it pretending to be tigers themselves!

The park!

An amazing treehouse which the bees loved so much! 

Sitting on her eggs!

Tiger tunnel! Ooh, exciting!!

Little bee up in the trees viewing the tigers from above..

And big bee!

Another viewing point, amazing!

Gorgeous animals..

In the cats enclosure..

A painted stork, VERY tame! 

Checking out the fancy ducks!

A coffee shop stop while the children play..

In the words of little bee, 'a whopper!'

Alligators!

Crocs!

Difficult to see in this pic but the croc was circling underneath the children here! Lol! 

Otters feeding time!

More climbing fun before heading home! 

What an amazing day! We enjoyed the place so much we ended up all buying a season pass. We all managed to get the children in as under 4's (for now) so it worked out very reasonable! 

We can't wait to return again!