scraped knees and stinging nettles!!

So, yesterday, we set off on our first little trip out, a walk round the village, a play in the stream and a walk up to the play park (I love the laid back speed of being on holiday, time to just wander around the village leisurely, not rushing to be anywhere at any certain time – bliss). So everyone is ready for the off, bikes ready, helmets on, trike and tractor with pulling ropes attached, wellies on, great, off we go. We get a hundred yards from the front door when the rain starts, we all shelter under a tree while raincoats are duly fetched and everyone is ‘coated up’, with a break in the rain, we press on, down to the stream. I think the kids managed all of five seconds before all their wellies were full of water and everyone’s clothes were wet! Numerous tipping water out of wellies later, I went back home for their crocs and began to wish we’d taken them down to the stream in crocs and swimsuits in the first place, never mind, you live and learn!

After our steam play we decide to head up to the play park. Despite numerous kids in dripping wet clothes, we make good progress, until Millie decides she wants to pull Hannah on her tractor. So I push Millie’s bike for her, Millie pulls the tractor, then disaster strikes, Hannah tips off the tractor and scrapes her knee, Millie then trips over the pulling rope and also scraps her knee, so now we have two crying children with blood running down their legs! Millie says she can no longer ride her bike or walk, so having managed to calm Hannah down, we bravely decided to press onto the park, with me pushing Millie’s bike with her sat on it with her leg rested up of the handle bars! The next disaster strikes in the park when Abbie gets stung by stinging nettles (let me tell you, that is a MAJOR incident where Abbie is concerned). So by the time we come to leave the park, Abbie can’t possibly walk (sting still too bad) Millie can’t possibly ride her bike (she doesn’t want to bend her poorly knee) Georgia is crying because she doesn’t want to leave the park and only Mummy can pull her!! Off we set, a wet, injured, stung little party, limping home, Abbie is having a piggy back on my back & I am pulling Georgia on her trike. Rob is pulling Hannah and helping Millie on her bike. Sometimes when you have four kids, you just don’t have enough pairs of hands!