Happy New Year

So here we are back in blogland after nearly a month's break. As usual I don't know where to start...
Christmas was nice, in a sort of non-denominational way, the boys think Santa is a sort of postman as they saw me buying presents and worked out that we buy them and Santa delivers them... I hate to lie but don't have the heart to take Santa away, I tried to get the whole family involved in a historical research of what Christmas is and how it has been celebrated over the ages but no one was interested (yet! I have high hopes of at least one of them being interested in history).

Reuben is going through a Tinkerbell stage (don't ask...), we have the films, the dressing up, the website... You name it! In the picture he is doing a fairy dance.

We are also trying to keep up our woodland outings, even if it is cold and miserable, we like the Swithland area, Beacon Hill, the Outwoods, with not an artificial playground in sight.

This is Reuben with his dear friends Joe and Emily in Bradgate Park over Christmas


















Reuben has also developed a love of posing for his dad's pictures, here is one he made me take a few days ago (edited by Martin)






















And he has decided that he wants to write (as well as sorting out some basics like left and right, Martin was astounded when he realised Reuben knows directions) so he uses pens, pencils, sticks in the mud, and the ipad. Notice how often he has the Tinkerbell costume on...