My word of the week this week is Family. For a couple of reasons, one being that with the long Easter weekend, we spent a lot of time with both sides of our family, having a lot of fun. But also because with my birthday being right after the weekend, Daddy took a couple of extra days off work so we have had 6 whole days having fun as a little family of 3.
So, what have we been up to?
On Good Friday we went to a local garden centre with hubby’s family, Monkey had no idea that we were meeting any of his favourite people there and he honestly got so excited when he saw his grandparents, his uncles and his aunt. I wish I could have captured that excitement a bit better than I have but you can hopefully get the idea from these pictures of him dragging his grandparents around the shop!
Monkey was also in mega cute mode as he was cuddling some of little animal statues, he is so into cuddling everything at the moment bless him!
Easter Sunday was another family day as we popped round to my parent’s house in the morning to visit them and my auntie who was up from London. Monkey loved dragging Daddy and his grandparents off to play with cars, while Mummy got to have a nice sit down, yay!
Then Sunday evening we headed to Hubby’s parent’s for dinner – Hubby’s Grandma, or Umuma, was from Singapore so curry is more traditionally their Sunday meal, so we went for a very yummy Easter Sunday Curry! Again Monkey loved all of the attention he got from all his family and actually had some lovely moments bonding with his Great Grandpa, who he can be a bit nervous of sometimes. So that was very lovely too!
Monday was a trip out to one of our favourite local zoos, Hamerton Wildlife Centre, and I took more than enough photos to fill a whole post so will write a separate one about that, though he had so so much fun with his Nanny, Grandpops, Uncle Mark and Auntie Fran, it was just lovely 🙂
Tuesday I got a day off (hurrah) as Daddy took Monkey to tumbletots and then started his creative challenge of making me a birthday card with Monkey 🙂 I had a lovely peaceful day while Daddy and Monkey got some Daddy Son time going on 🙂
Wednesday was my birthday so we headed to Cambridge to do a bit of shopping and just enjoy the sunshine really! After getting a bit bored of shopping we gave Monkey a lovely run around with Daddy in the park, and he had a whale of a time, and was a good boy for the rest of the shopping trip, and I got a few lovely treats! Yay! 🙂
Thursday Daddy was back to work so that’s where the family time ended, but we really had such a lovely time, and Monkey has been so happy getting so much attention from Daddy, and the rest of his extended family!
The final exciting thing to note is that today (Friday) we have our scan, so we will get to see the newest member of our family for the first time! Eek! Exciting, and obviously fingers crossed that all is well :).
What’s your word of the week?
Sounds like you all had a lovely time hon. Enjoy these last days as a family of three 🙂 I have to think very hard now to remember those days if I’m honest xx #WotW
Thank you, gosh i bet it seems like a long time ago now! xx
Aw – fab week hon! Glad you got to have so much quality family time and such a lovely birthday. Looks like Monkey is having a whale of time there! And so exciting about the scan – fingers crossed it all goes well X #wotw
Thank you, it was a lovely week and Monkey loved all of the attention he got! Scan update tomorrow 😉 xx
Gorgeous family pic (when are we going to Hamerton?!) and best of luck for today, can’t wait to hear all about it! #fanilyphotofriday
Thank you, we should def meet at hamerton one day! Thanks lovely, scan update on the blog tomorrow 🙂 xx
What a fab Easter! Loving all the pics xx
Thank you! xx
That sounds just perfect and I love the picture of Monkey cuddling the statues-so cute!
Thank you, it was dead cute bless him!! xx
Hes so cute! Putting his head on the statues like the cutest things ever. I envy you for having both sides of your family to be in here =) Glad you had nice time with your family =) #wotw
Thank you, he was so cute, not sure where he’s learnt that from!! xx
Looks like you all had a great weekend! xx
Thank you we really did!! xx
Aw what a lovely week! Love the pics of monkey cuddling the statues. So cute! x
Thank you, it was great and he’s so funny! xx
Fabulous word. Family means so so much. xXx
Thank you, it really does! xx
Love the photo of your son with the statues, he is adorable. Family has to be one of my favourite words. Belated Happy Birthday too.
Thank you, he was hilarious, and cute, with those statues! Aww thank you 🙂 xx
Fabulous week! I love it when my husband is able to take a few days off and we can just potter about doing simple, fun stuff x Look forward to hearing about today x #WotW
Thank you, it was lovely and it’s great isn’t it, nice to have extra time all together 🙂 Scan post up tomorrow 🙂 xx
Family time is great and something our boys miss out on – they get hubby and me a lot but we have very little other family and those who we do have is in the UK or Ireland. We are off to see my Mum soon though.
Aww well that will be lovely, Monkey is lucky having so much family around, we weren’t close to family at all when i was growing up and i can’t say I missed out, as I never knew any different! xx
Ah, beautiful post and photos. Sounds like you had a lovely few days together, migraine aside, of course! Hope the scan went well, too x Thanks for sharing with #WotW
Thank you! We did have a great fe days, thankfully not ruined by the migraines! Scan post up tomorrow 😉 xx
Sounds like you had a lovely time!
Gorgeous photos x
We really did, thank you! xx
Sounds like a great week. Lovely photo’s x #WotW
Thank you! xx