Day 1.106: King of the Castle

This afternoon, Exile #2 took Exile #3 to keep Albaniana's Boy company during his sister's birthday party. That left me with Exile #4 - extremely grumpy at being left and home and a bit tired, and E5N1 - rudely awakened mid-nap by his grumpy sister.

I re-settled E5N1 and persuaded Exile #4 to lie down in our bed to try to regain some composure. After I had been cutting the grass for a couple of minutes Exile #2 returned with one of the girls' school friends (in the year in between them) to spend the time while her big sister was at the party playing with Exile #4 at our house.

Exile #4 rallied immediately with some company - and the two girls played nicely for the whole afternoon. At some point - spurred on by the glorious weather (about to come to an end), the newly cut grass and our unexpected visitor - Exile #2 said to me, "We should retrieve the bouncy-bounce from the basement soon." (she talks American now - she meant Bouncy Castle you know!)

"I could get it now I suppose." and about ten minutes (and a fair deal of huffing and puffing) later the girls were bouncing. Later, as you can see, E5N1 and I had a turn.