Wilder coffee update

Yesterday morning:
Me (to Wilder) ‘do you want some coffee’
Wilder ‘I don’t want to try it’
Me ‘why not?’
Wilder ‘Are you serious, Daddy?’

We think he’s picked this up from Ilona.

Flying visit

This weekend we had a quick visit from Abatha (or Abita as Wilder says), Lila (Nina as per Wilder) and Nate (still Nate). Wilder is still asking where they are every morning since they went home. We showed them what we could of our local surroundings including:

Friday lunchtime we all got to go to Ilona's classroom to hear her read her story about when she lost her first tooth.

We managed a walk outside at Putnam Park

And after German on Saturday morning, lunch at the Rye Ridge Deli in Stamford

New England Pumpkins

Last weekend we did maybe the most New England thing you can do and visited our local pumpkin patch to pick out our halloween pumpkins, then explored a corn maize. Even Wilder picked his own pumpkin. Pictures of the carving to come. NB it was quite messy

Coffee

Yesterday morning:

Wilder (to Emily): 'I don't drink coffee (buppy)'
Emily: 'Why? Because it's too hot?'
Wilder: 'No, Because it's gross'

And he's still shutting himself in cupboards

Not a performing monkey

I've been trying to get a video of Wilder talking but it's very difficult - he acts like we're paparazzi if he sees us filming him. Which is a shame as he says lots of very cute things. This is the best I have managed so far:

Also a bonus video of Wilder discovering bubblewrap yesterday

Wilder stuff

A few bits of Wilder. First because I played some hockey at school and University I've been doing coaching of the Redding and Easton Hockey middle school teams - Bluet and Ilona have also started playing in the beginners squad. This means Wilder quite often has to come along. Here he is getting his practice in. 

Wilder's favourite jacket

Wilder likes 'catenpinars' - we were sent this picture of a catenpinar and had to print it out and stick it on his wall. He also likes to talk about the time he held one in his hand

'Hi Dadn, I go in dere'

This is just how we roll

Aberdeenward bound

After a busy week in Cambridge, Bluet, Ilona and I boarded a train to Aberdeen on Friday morning*. While in Aberdeen we went to Castle Fraser, which was really fun, once the kids were given a checklist of things to spot and tick off. A busy weekend ensued

At Mill House there was a swing to play on

A car Andrew and Nick are building to play in

A tree house Andrew just built to not fall out of

Muffins to eat

And a railway to watch in full steam (NB we must get one of these at our house)

Oh, and bees to visit

*We changed at Peterborough onto a busy train, but as we had reserved seats it was fine. In fact the kids behaved perfectly - probably because I let them play games on phones. At Newcastle we changed again and this time the carriage was so full the passengers did not want to let us on even though we had reserved seats, but we eventually got on and everything was fine; all this because of the Edinburgh festival, the train was empty and peaceful from Waverly onwards. As we then arrived 30 minutes late, 50% of our ticket price was refunded, so it all worked out great.