Road Rage

Looks like Brandon is also showing a keen interest in driving just like his older brother. Here is the little guy getting to grips with his kick and drive from a seated position.

Joshua continues to get smarter, faster and cheekier every day. At dinner time now he no longer seems to eat off off baby cutlery. Since Mummy and Daddy use big knives, forks and spoons then Joshua has too. And if you don't give them to him, then he will just take yours. Speaking of taking stuff - tonight he ate all his dinner (it was his favourite, sausage, mash and beans). Anyway he ate 3 sausages, then polished off his mash and beans - then he used his "big boys fork" to stab a sausage off of Mummy's plate and declared it "mine"!

One really nice thing Joshua has learnt is "home sweet home". Whenever we go out in the car; upon our return as we pull into the drive I always say to Joshua "home sweet home". He now recognises home and as you pull into the drive he says "Eee Eee home" or "Home Ee Home".

Anyway enough waffle - a few more pictures from the boys at partyman this weekend.

Joshua giving some road rage to the kids in the car to the left - must be a woman driver! Either that or he just run over Postman Pats cat.............

Summers Day

Been a few days since the last blog update - been a busy man lately. So for today there is just some nice pictures to enjoy and not too many words. The first few pictures are of Joshua and Brandon enjoying playing on a nice summers day.

And the next few pictures are of my boys doing some driving in their Daddy's new company car.

Seaside time

Not sure if I ever got around to posting the picture showing Brandon now holding his own milk bottle. If not then here it is. Also as of 2 days ago Brandon has now sprouted his second tooth.

Also yesterday we had a family day out to the seaside. We headed over to the lovely Mersea Island and found a nice quiet bit of beach with good quality water. Joshua absolutely loved playing in the sand with his bucket and spade and then having a good splash in the sea.

Here is me and Joshua building sand castles. Well me building them and Joshua knocking them down!

Me and the two boys have a little stroll in the sea water.

Time for Brandon to get in on some of the sand action.

After the beach we found this nice little park for the boys to have a play.

Joshua giving Mummy and Brandon a spin - time to get dizzy.

And after all that activity it is time to stop off for a bite to eat.

Unfortunately after this Joshua and Brandon were both very tired and we didn't have time to go crabbing before they were both zonked in the car. So crabbing will be for our next outing there.

Whipsnade Visit

Before I get into toady's blog update there is some breaking news on Brandon. He has finally managed his back to front roll for the first time. So that is now back to front and front to back. Crawling soon...........

Anyway today we had a family day out to Whipsnade Safari park. At times it was a little too hot to be walking around outside (I think even the animals would agree), however it did give the day a genuine safari feel. Once in the entrance we were greeted with some free roaming Maras. Despite Joshua's fear of dogs he seemed pretty comfortable getting fairly close to these animals.

After that we found the sea lions - this is a great picture. It looks like Joshua is kissing the sea lion through the glass and Brandon has that look on his face as if to say "WHAT!".

Here is me and my boys at the elephant enclosure. Joshua would not pose for the camera as he now knows how to say "elephant" and was pretty fixated on these animals.

Another piccie of me and the boy's....

Whilst Joshua was having his milk me and Brandon went walkabout and found some free roaming wallaby's. As it was so hot they weren't really free roaming - but just laying in the shade. We didn't complain as it gave us a chance to get real close.....

No real reason for the next picture other than it is a nice colourful photo.

The boy's saw tigers and lions, but the cheetahs were all hiding in the shade. So this was as close as Joshua got to a cheetah.

Joshua learnt two new words today - the first was "hippo"

And the second was "rhino"

Joshua enjoying some chocolate ice cream to help cool down..........

Again no real reason for the next piccie other than I think it is another good shot.

Did you know that Whipsnade even has a "build-a-bear" shop???? Here is the bear that me, Joshua and Brandon built today.

More of the elephants............later in the afternoon these were free roaming around the park. Can you spot the tiny little baby in the picture.

And to end this blog update - the classic pictures with Joshua and Brandon's head shots amongst some pictures of animals. There are two monkeys in the picture below........

And Brandon sandwiched between a lion and some meerkats.

Brooklands Museum

Today we had an outstanding day out at Brooklands Automotive and Aviation Museum. The weather was stunning, the boys were both well behaved and we all had good fun. So enjoy the blog update.

Once through the entrance Joshua quickly spotted an F1 car and suddenly all you could here whispering around your feet were the words "drive drive drive". Needless to say the next 10 mins were spent standing around whilst Joshua pretended to do a few laps of the old Brooklands track.

After the F1 car we headed straight over and booked Tina and Joshua on a flight on Concorde (what a bargain for £4).

Here they are boarding the plane.

A farewell wave to Dad and Brother...........

And then at the end of the flight.............

This may look like an innocent picture of Joshua standing in front of a pair of Concorde's wheels. However if you zoom in on his left hand you will notice he is proudly holding a bolt which he pulled out of the wheel assembly (sorry Brooklands!!!!!).

As always you can guarantee that Joshua will spot all the "nee nahs"......... here is the first.

For the next one we managed to get Brandon in the picture as well. More over Fireman Sam, there is a new crew in town..........

Me and my boys posing in front of a few of the plane exhibits.

Meet Pilot Joshua King reporting for duty. Yes his little back pack is his new body harness with a wrist leash which we were trying today for the first time. I have to say it worked very well and Joshua did not seem to mind using it. So no fear of losing the little guy when he does off for one of his "run run run's".

Pilot Joshua takes his Dad and Brother on a flight around a hanger. I guess we must have been distracting the pilot as he turned around to give us a telling off. Please fasten your seat belts whilst the sign is illuminated.

Mummy taking Joshua on a tour through a Wellington bomber. What an awesome plane.

Here are two of the awesome display cars. The Napier Railton and the Bluebird.

The panel behind Joshua has a few switches which allow him to control the propellers in the background. Joshie loved playing with these, "spin spin spin".

So lets get down to the nitty gritty as to why we were at Brooklands. Well James May was there today filming part of his new Toy Story serious. They were going to break the World Record for the longest ever Scalextrix track of 2.75 miles around the olds Brooklands race track. To give you an idea of the scale - below is a picture of one of the banked corners and the black line through the middle is the scalextric track!!!!

In addition to the World Record track they had organised a few other Scalextric events for visitors to participate in. So this was Dad's opportunity to introduce Joshua to the World of Scalextric's. The two main events were a Scalextric drag race and a hill climb up the famous Brooklands Hill.

Anyway after a week of hunting around prior to the event I managed to get Joshua a Lightning McQueen Scalextric car. So off we headed to the drag strip.......... here is me and Joshie at the start line with controller in hand.

And here is Joshua's Lightning car all ready at the start line. The car we was racing was seriously modified and even engineered to pull wheelies off the line. Needless to say poor Lightning got creamed in all 3 drag races. Oddly enough Joshua burst out crying after the first race - we are not sure whether it was the speed, maybe a little reaction from the controller, or just the shock of seeing his beloved car disappear down the track. But after calming him down he was fine for the 2nd and 3rd races...........

Here is Joshua proudly holding his first ever Scalextric car. Good luck in trying to prize that out of his hands.....