Today's waffling

Today started early - when will Little Prince learn to wake up at a reasonable time?? Well to tell the truth it was about 8am which is entirely reasonable, but I was still tired after all the driving and shopping I did yesterday so it felt earlier!! We went out to a lovely organic food cafe/farmshop for lunch and the only blot on the day was the obnoxious mother/grandmother combo sat on the table next to us!! They did nothing but complain (loudly) about how un-child friendly the cafe was (it was VERY child friendly, just didn't have child sized cutlery!!) and tell off the older child and complain about the mum's anniversary being ruined. I did wonder if it was the anniversary of her receiving her first broomstick!!!

Little Prince behaved beautifully (for once lol) and I felt like a very smug mummy :-) We did buy him a very nice, well made tractor toy from the shop afterwards as a well done, and he has promised to try not to break it!! Before that though while us grown ups finished our drinks (and Mr Messy finished his dessert) Little Prince went to play in the playground outside, we could see him through the window right next to our table and it was fully enclosed so we let him play. He and another boy and girl seemed to be on a mission to completely fill the slide with sand (much to the witchy mother and son's disgust - they had asked the cafe staff to clean the slide so darling boy wouldn't get dirty!! What are boys for?!?!) and they did a grand job. They then tried to clear the sand by sliding down the slide - how else would you do it lol?? I think we brought most of the sand home with us in Little Prince's shoes, socks, trousers and even underpants!!! He was totally grubby and had a great time :-)