Weekend Fun!!

Hi Everyone,

Why are children so funny? Why is it when you want to do something they totally stop you in a normally entertaining way?

The weekend for me is always a busy time, with having 3 children. This weekend was no exception!

It started on Saturday morning; my wife had very little sleep due to Mia waking every few hours for feeding, so I volunteered to take Jake with me to watch his older brother play football!

So we set out that morning, myself, Josh, Jake and Igglepiggle on what should have been a 15 minute journey, but thanks to Josh’s manager getting lost, it took about 50!! In this time, Jake told me about every single car that went past, “look Dadda, blue car Dadda, look,” and I had to keep telling him the correct colour of every single one!

When we got there, Josh was a little nervous as he was playing against Luton Academy, so he wanted to catch up with his team mates as quickly as possible, but Jake didn’t care, “Georgia (what he calls Josh as he knows it gets on his nerves), hand Georgia!” So that was my first task, to allow Josh to meet up with his teams mates! He had a little grumble, but allowed Josh to go!

My next task was to try and convince Jake to watch Josh as much as possible, oh how I failed! It started off ok, as we were playing football ourselves right next to the pitch, which he was enjoying, but then it all went wrong!! He saw a dog, and that was it, we had to go up to the dog (with the owners permission) and give the dog a stroke, well I did on Jakes orders whilst he just stood there smiling. Then he saw another dog in the distance and decided he wanted to see that dog and made a run for it, well that was it then for the rest of the match.

I think that in the end Josh was quite happy that I didn’t see much of the game, as I asked him afterwards if he had enjoyed it and he kind of gave a teenage moody grunt at me, but after a bit of cajoling I found out that they had lost 14 – 0, but he had cleared one off the line!!

On the Sunday, I had the enviable task of building a wardrobe in Josh’s room, which has turned out to be a lovely wardrobe.

As Louise was downstairs trying to get Mia off to sleep, she allowed Jake to watch Madagascar 2 in our room. It was then 2 hours that allowed me to build most of the wardrobe and also let Louise do a few bits, but then suddenly all I heard was “DADDA, look!”

Looking up Jake was standing in the doorway of Josh’s room dancing, whilst singing “gascar, move it, move it!” It was a really funny sight, until he made me join in with him and I can honestly say that when you become a Dad, you stop being able to dance!

Thanks

Darren

Zoo Days

Hi Everyone,

Last weekend I had a fantastic time with my wife and children, we went to Whipsnade Zoo. As we are members of Whipsnade Zoo, we can go there whenever we want over the year, which is really handy as my 2 year old is animal obsessed!

When we got there, we had to get a map of the Zoo, so that Jake can carry it around with him and tell us where he wants to go. This generally consists of him sitting in his car seat, saying “Dadda, hippo, hippo, Dadda!” over and over again.

Needless to say the first stop was the Hippos, so there we are, all getting out of the car when Jake decides he needs to go to the toilet; All we get is “Mumma, Dadda, wee wee, poo poo………..hold it, hold it, hold it!!” So I have to dash off with him back to the car to use his potty. Afterwards he gives us a dance, whilst singing “wee wee on the potty,” very amusing.

After the hippos, we got back in the car and drove around and went through Asia, which is where they have Bambi's (what Jake calls deer) and camels.

Next stop for us was the reptile house, the first thing we saw in there was a tarantula and some locusts, Jake preceded to shake and make me carry him swiftly past these. We then saw some reptiles and snakes, with Jake more interested in the waterfall in one of the enclosures rather than the reptiles. Mongoose were next on the agenda, apparently they were all a peep (sleeping).

We then came to the aquarium bit, where Jake decided to tell me all about Nemo, in regards to every single fish in there. He then proceeded to get upset as there was a turtle that we could only see in the water window, but had its head bobbing for air whilst doggy paddling, he thought it was drowning.

Then we went into the Crocodile enclosure, my wife decided to run straight through this as there were butterflies flying around and tried to say it’s so they wouldn’t land on Mia (my baby). We still don’t believe her!!

After this we saw some Tortoises on the floor (which Jake still tells me about by saying “Dadda, Tortoise, floor!”) and some monkeys of some description, which he surprisingly wasn’t bothered about at all!!

We then decided it was home time as we have to get back for dinner, so we left Whipsnade, with Jake pointing at his map telling us that we are going to see Meerkats next time!

Thanks

Darren

A little bit about me

Hi everyone,

This is my first blog, so hopefully I can make it interesting and make you want to come back for more!

I'm a 30 year old male living in England, I am married and have 3 children.

What I'm hoping to do here is to let you see a little bit into my life and my unique thoughts and views from any to everything. If I don't have a view on something I will make it up!!

Other than my family, my passions are football (soccer to any americans), films, books and just generally trying to have fun.

Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts what they want me to talk about next, feel free to let me know, otherwise speak soon.

Darren