King George's Park & Pond Dipping

Half way through the 1st week of the school summer holidays and the boys have been kept busy so far. On Monday they took Holly to get weighed and also visited the library to get some reading books. As with last year they have been set a challenge to read 6 books and write about them over the Summer Holidays. Holly is making good progress and now weighs in at 15lb 12oz sitting just below the 50th percentile curve. She definitely takes after Joshua with her appetite and continues to eat very well. Yesterday she ate her first plate of non blended food for dinner even though she only has one and a half teeth. She scoffed down some fish fingers, peas and chips like there was no tomorrow.

Yesterday was another hot day and so Tina and a few of the school Mum's decided to meet over at King George's park in Brentwood to let the kiddies have a play and to have a picnic. We had never even heard of this park or knew of its existence until yesterday. Sounds like the boys had a really good time as the park has got two outdoor paddling pools which was just perfect for keeping them cool in the 28 degree heat wave that we was enjoying.

Now that's what I call a paddling pool. Can you spot Joshua?

Joshua watching on as Brandon dives in the pool.

Brandon watching on as Joshua does some floating.

Once I got home from work, Tina wanted to get on with some dinner and Holly was sound asleep. So as the boys missed the pond dipping event this Sunday we decided to take our nets and buckets over to the Wick park and do some pond dipping of our own. We was only there about 15 minutes and the boys successfully caught two newts, several water bugs, a tadpole and a large assortment of water snails!!! They then wanted to take their bucket of creatures home and keep them as pets in an old fish tank in the back garden (well actually Brandon wanted me to dig a pond in the garden!).

Joshua swooshing his net under the bridge to see what he can find. Such a lovely little pond.

Inspecting their nets to see if they have caught anything interesting.

The bucket soon filled with all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures.

Brandon about to have another dip with his net.

Brandon trying to reach over just a bit too far as I fear he is going in head first!

Joshua inspects his collection of pond bugs and creatures as its time to head home for dinner.