Holly and Lucy

Marcus is entertaining Lucy at the Idle Hour in Barnes.

Holly and Ellen and Lucy and Mummy are having a great time.

Holly settles in for an afternoon in the pub. More orange juice please barkeep!

Marcus is excellent at entertaining the two little friends.

Marcus

Holly and Lucy demand to be entertained.

Marcus succeeds in entertaining the little ladies.

Marcus needs a break so he persuades the girls to look for fairies down the bottom of the garden.

Suckers!

To the victor the prize.

Marcus arranges a great day out

Marcus arranged a great day out for us all at The Lookout in Bracknell. It is pitched as "Berkshire's premier hands-on interactive science and nature exhibition!" - but that ignores the fact that it has a brilliant play ground as well. To kick things off Marcus had laid on an excellent picnic lunch for everyone.

Lucy and Holly the two person springy horse.

Lucy tries the single springy horse. "It's a bit wobbly"

By the time she gets the hang of it's a bit dull.

Much better with a friend. Back onto the two person horse with Oliver.

Bouncy Castle

The slightest bit of sun is a great excuse to get the bouncy castle out. Lucy, Milly and Holly all have a bounce while Ellen looks on.

Then Lucy shows the girls how expert she is at driving the remote control car. Jenson Sponk.

The three girls sit still for a brief second.

Lucy and Holly dine in style

Lolly's all round for Lucy and Holly

They always come to that point when Mummy's have to help out by pushing the lolly up in the tube.

In fact Lolly's can be far more high maintenance than you might imagine

In the end Lucy decides to sit down and really concentrate on the job at hand

On the little Train

Holly, Ellen and Mummy have a wave from the little Duplo train. Lucy looks like she is more interested in her ice lolly.

Lucy could take some lessons from Holly on how to look at the camera.

Holly Day

A trip over to see Mellon and Lucy and Holly are playing with her crazy tree toy.

Marcus is an Arsenal fan and so has dressed Holly in pink baby Arsenal clobber. That is absolutely fine. However, we are not very happy about him drapping a filthy Gooner scarf around Lucy. We had to give her an extra thorough bath that night ;)

Holly

We popped over to see Marcus and Ellen so Lucy could catch up with her little friend Holly. Holly is just on the cusp of being able to walk. That will be trouble!

When Lucy got a bit tired Holly generously lent her push chair. Lucy does look a bit little in it. It's very rare that her big flapping feet look small.

Dr Ellen

What a treat. Dr Ellen wasn't working this morning so popped in to see Mummy and the Sprockmeister on her way to the office.

She had an important meeting with her boss which is why she looks so smart. Lucy also looks pretty smart in her pink dress but she doesn't have to attend any meetings.