Wet Family Fun

(Goblin is 30 months)

In our usual weather defying way Hublet and I looked out of the window yesterday, saw it was raining heavily and decided to take Goblin out for a walk in the woods! We actually went to Jimmy's Farm. I've posted about it before. The farm is OK but the animals are a bit inaccessible - they are all in pens with high fences so we spent a lot of time having to lift Goblin - and he is getting HEAVY. The playground is lovely but its right next to a giant, deep, unfenced pond, and with Goblin's tendency to bolt when he sees something new and exciting I can't say that I am particularly relaxed when he's playing in it.

But there are two wonderful things that draw me back to Jimmy's farm once more. 

 The butterfly house - Its a bit early in the season for butterflies so Goblin and Hublet looked for caterpillars instead. But we did find one or two early butterflies around the place. 

The wood - They have a lovely wood, away from the scary pond and full of den building equipment (ie long sticks). Visibility between the trees is good so we can let Goblin loose to run without worrying.

Goblin loves running in and out of the prebuilt dens, and instructing me and Hublet on how and where to build additional walls.

On this visit he became obsessed with pretend ice cream and invented his own imaginary world where the dens were ice cream vans and he gave Hublet and me lots of imaginary ice creams. Hublet got his for free but for some reason I had to pay imaginary money for mine - so unfair!

There was lots of licking involved.

We also found an imaginary row boat! (see above)

We had a wonderful and wet day out. I like that Goblin is learning fast that rain doesn't mean we can't go out, it just means get your waterproofs before we go out.

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