Family Day

When my Granny died my Grandad married again and my Dad has a half brother and sister 10 or so years younger then him. With Christmas being so busy and full of people we didn't get see this side of the family in the holiday, so this weekend we all met up in Crawley for a late festive family get together.

First of all we stayed over at T's parents and in the morning collected our new car. Daddy, Nana and Grandad went to get it whilst C-bear and I went to the park. It was v cold (very very very cold, brrrrr) and everything was covered in frost. C-bear wasn't so sure about getting frost on his mittens!

Peepo Mama!

It was so nice driving in the Zafira, so much space and so much more power then our little Corsa, we could actually overtake cars whilst going uphill on the motorway! 16 of us got together for our family day. C was most excited by his half-cousins once removed (!) Felix (4) and Otto (3), they are happy, fun, boisterous boys and C was in awe. We had tea, chatted and put together a new corner sofa! The three boys then sat on the sofa with a duvet... for about 5 seconds, before continuing a constant whirl of activity, jumping on the new sofa and sliding on the wooden floor. We did have some quiet time with books:

Had a brilliant lunch, cooked in the aga and including cottage pie, roast chicken, beef stew, jacket potatoes and veggies, and then went for a nice walk around Ifield Green. We ended up at the local play park:

Our little family on the roundabout

On the swing "kicking" Daddy caused many giggles

My beautiful Daddy Bear

The day was a little more eventful by a quick hospital visit on the way home. C caught conjunctivitis (it came on really suddenly) and the chemist couldn't give us the medicine over the counter for an under 2-year old, so they told us to go to the 24hr health centre which was actually the Urgent Treatment Unit of the hospital. They were really good there, we were seen quickly and given drops for C's eye. So a rather lengthy end to a really nice day!