Week 5

Well, Happy 4th of July (a little late) from a country that surprisingly doesn't seem to celebrate that holiday...huh.

So this week I tried really hard to do some fun things. We went to the Zoo which was a big hit. The Zoo here is small compared to Ft. Worth. Not as many "big impressive" animals (no elephants or silverback gorillas), but you can get closer to a lot of the animals here, so that was fun.

We also joined a play group. Yes, Mom went way out of her comfort zone and walked a mile and a half each way to join a group that meets at a church. There were a lot of kids and parents. Not a ton of people talked to us, but a few did. We met a little boy named Thor who is 2 weeks older than Cade. Really, the most interesting part of the kid is his name - but whatever. But hey - how many times in your life do you get to ride a scooter up the center aisle of the church?

This was another "close to home" weekend. No beach trip yet, but we did do a TON of other stuff. We took a boat ride down the Thames to Greenwich - home of zero degrees longitude (which separates the eastern hemisphere from the western). If you ever worked with computer programming you may have had to work in Greenwich mean time - voila!

Cade LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the boat ride. He kept saying to people in the boat "I'm on a boat". Bless him.

We also visited the National Maritime Museum - which - gotta be honest...not all that interesting. Sorry Greenwich.

One funny thing happened on the way home. TWO different people came up to me and asked me which train to take to get to their stop and I actually knew the answer. Not sure how this happened, but apparently, I look like a local.

Sunday we went to the London Aquarium. I thought it was really fun and Cade like it too. He got to see lots of "fishy's". He even touched a starfish and got his face painted.

After the aquarium, we headed out and got sushi for lunch - appropriate I would say. In case you were curious, Cade likes curry rice. Then we headed over the bridge to Big Ben and on to Westminster Abbey. Truly beautiful and hard to believe almost 1000 years old!

I just can't believe how grown up Cade seems this week. Maybe it's the haircut - I don't know, but he seems to have become a "big boy" right before my eyes.

They boys are getting closer every day. Cade's answer when you ask him who his best friend is is "baby Cole'. Even when prompted to say mommy or daddy, he says "baby". Love. These. Boys.