My little baby cousin Sebby came round! He’s so cute and lovely and very clever. I showed him a book with lots of animals in it and pointed to each one, and he would immediately say, “Dog. Cat. Piggy. Puppy. Kitty..” until he said “down” and I lowered him to the floor. He walked over to my bedroom all by himself, and when he came to Mummy’s room, he saw the feeding pillow and cried, “Moon!”. Auntie Beci said he called it a ‘moon’ because it looked like a crescent moon. Then Sebby picked up the feeding pillow and ran with it into my room, where I sat him upon it and rested it on me. I gave him the animal book and showed him the game Tilly and Auntie Beci were playing. You had to fit the shapes into each hole (but there were many difficult shapes with zigzags) until the timer went off. The timer went from fifty seconds to zero. When you have completed the task and the timer was still going, you click ‘stop’ and put your peg colour into the hole of the time you took. But if you didn’t complete it and the timer went off, all the shapes in the holes popped out with a tremendous noise and, of course, that just goes to show what happens when you’re a slow-coach! Sebby, on the other hand, giggled when the shapes came out, but, as you can guess, when one hit him in the face, he immediately stopped laughing 🙂
We went to the library and the shops to deliver back some books and get some lunch. Beci stopped in the cafe with Sebby and we went to the library and the park while he slept. In the park they had removed the plastic donkey, which was my second favourite thing, but Tilly told me it was probably because of vandalism and they were going to build it back. So we went down to the outside playing equipment with the ropes and bars and high-up seats, and we both raced to get to the highest. Tilly got there first, but only to see that it was covered in rainwater and bits of muck. So we stood upon it and slid down a rope to the in-the-middle seat. Then we jumped down to the ground and, as it was seemingly fun, we repeated it until we were called back into the playground.
When we got back home, it was lunch-time. The builders were far later than they should have been, so before we went out to the park and the library and cafe, Mummy stuck a note on the window saying that they would have to wait in the car until the convenient time! She wasn’t having any of it! So the builders had to wait for an hour and a bit because they were so late. When they finally decided to come, the builder our Landlady had chose for us wasn’t very happy 😉 But Tilly and I happily played on our D.S.s. Beci and Sebby left soon after.
