AM & PM
After an early start, we decided to just get ready and get out. We’d not realised that Delamere Forest had reopened, so having not been for ages we set off to there. In the mist of leaving in a bit of a rush, we forgot Zack’s hoody. This was a classic situation where had we brought it he’d have not wanted it, as it wasn’t that cold but because we didn’t he wanted it. So even though it’s miles to big and did make him look like some sort of wizard, Vikki lent him hers. Once that was all sorted we carried on with out walk and on the trail for the Gruffalo. We stopped a couple of times to explore more in the woods off the path and we found a quiet picnic bench for our lunch. On finally making to the Gruffalo (a life size wooden carving), Zack was rather excited. We’ve seen it before a number of times, but whether now he’s old and understands the book and the character more and that’s why he got so exited. We did have to carry him away after a while, as other parents and children stuck to social distancing a queue had formed to come and look at it. The ten minute power nap he’d had on the way to Delamere seemed to have given him enough energy to see him through the day, but as we left the Gruffalo he seemed tired again and wanted to get in the buggy. There wasn’t any sleep and none in the car journey home. The rest of the day we spent playing inside with the Play-doh, outside doing a bit of painting, playing in the sand pit and of course running around being Cody and the naughty man. He was clearly hungry for his tea, judging how he got himself into his chair and couldn’t wait any longer and ate the tub of peas. Afterwards, what should have been the usual wind down, turned into Vikki and him running around the garden kicking the football like a pair of nutters. However it did seem to help tire him as he was a dream for bath and bed, once I’d found the right Peppa Pig book to read to him.
Shot on my @fujifilmx_uk XT-1 + 35mm
