Fun in York

This weekend saw James and I have a day to ourselves.   We got up early and headed into York for a boys day out.   We had lots planned but first of all we jumped off the bus and headed to the Yorkshire Museum.   James was on top form and made sure we went into every room.   When we missed one, he would point it out and off he would go.   He loves the dinosaurs in there but most of all he loves the skeletons.   He is truly fascinated by them. 

After we had spent a good hour in the museum, James decided we wanted to go and play in the ruins of the abbey.   He loves climbing on the ruins, even more though, he loves jumping off the top of them.   If I was lucky I got a bit or warning, if not James just threw himself off, trusting I would catch him.   Never have I moved so quickly as he began climbing higher and higher!

After we had walked through the Museum Gardens we grabbed a bite of lunch.   We popped into Lucia’s, James choice as apparently mummy and granny take him there, and James enjoyed some fish fingers and chips.   All in all a nice meal. 

After lunch I asked James what he would like to do.   He announced he would like to go to the big church so off to the Minster we headed. 

James could not get over how high the ceilings were.   He kept staring up in amazement.   I promised him that when he was bigger we would climb to the top of the tower.   He was really excited by this. 

After the Minster, it was time to grab a little food and head home.   Apart from a rogue ten minutes where he was naughty, I had to drag him round M&S, he was a star all day.  Interested in everything.   We got home about six hours after we headed out and settled down to a hot chocolate and some TV.   Could not have asked for a nicer and more relaxing day with my little man.

Moorlands Again

Lyns is still on nights so James and I had a lazy day, not even getting out of our pjs until late morning.   We spent the morning playing with Lego and watching Despicable Me 3, which is so funny.   I had asked a James the day before what we had wanted to do and he had said he wanted to go to the woods.   I did think about going to Dalby to do the new Zog trail but we were just not up and ready in time.

We headed out wrapped up for the cold and equipped for really muddy paths, however, it was neither which was nice.   James loves this bit of woodland and he knows all the places to explore and where the shortcuts are.   

James was full of beans and from the word go he was off.  In the teaching area he had great fun running and jumping between the seats.   He was so adventurous, he was hauling himself up small trees. 

After causing chaos in the teaching area, we were off to explore.   James had lots of fun running in and out of all the areas just off the path as well as venturing into areas we had not been in before and I an not completely certain we should have been in. 

At one point James declared he wanted to climb a really tall tree and I thought yeah yeah, you’ll get scared once your feet have left the floor, alas no, he was off up the nearest one like greased lightening.   With my heart in my mouth I watched him climb, turns out he is actually a monkey as he deftly shot up the tree. 

After completing the loop we were back at the entrance.   I had one tired little boy on my hands.   We had climbed trees, fought pirates and raced our way around the area.   What a lovely couple of hours spent out and about.