Butlins

Second day of the swimming lessons, and this time Miss A was jumping in the water, putting her head under a hoop, looking for a red whale on the bottom of the pool and kicking her legs while holding onto a float. Confidence and enjoyment looks quite high. She is looking forward to the next lesson tomorrow.

We'd arranged to go to Butlins today. We went several times last year as day visitors, and whatever your views on Butlins and the type of people that might go there, £5 for a day out for all the rides you can possibly go on is a bargain. It was however incredibly busy today, and we were queuing outside in the wind and rain for 20 minutes which was not fun. They closed it to day visitors by 11am so the friends we'd arranged to meet there were unable to get in. (NB - don't have such an unusual car - Master B noticed our car in the car park and was beside himself that he couldn't get in to see us!!). Fortunately once inside the crowds disperse quite well, and Miss A had a lovely time on the little fairground rides, in the soft play, watching a puppet show, and when the rain cleared, outside on the trampolines. The only disappointment was that the galloping carousel was not running due to the rain. Miss I enjoyed all the lights and we found a small baby play area for her to try. I chuckled at our afternoon snack - Miss A rejected my offer of one of her scones, and instead elected to eat a pot of butter beans!

Tea tonight was Miss A's choice again, so we had pasta with a tomato, pepper and courgette sauce (I hid some spinach in it), with broccoli, polenta slices and finished off with rice pudding.

I've spent the evening doing birthday party preparations - printing out rainbow pictures to colour in, rainbow crown outlines, and attempting to print lunch box labels. Resorted to old fashioned pen for the labels now!